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New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
Apple today updated MacBook Air, with faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard and twice the storage. It’s available for just $999.
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New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
Apple today unveiled its most advanced iPad Pro, adding an Ultra Wide camera and studio-quality mics, and a breakthrough LiDAR Scanner.
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Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle
A mishap during an experiment led UNSW quantum computing researchers to crack a mystery that had stood since 1961.
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New paint atomizer with over 95% coating efficiency
Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) has developed a new type of paint atomizer (airless paint atomizer) that uses static electricity instead of air, to replace the conventional air paint atomizers used in the vehicle body painting process. The newly developed airless painter, the first of its kind in the world, achieves…
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TRRespass: Rowhammer against DDR4
Project Description Rowhammer haunted us for the better part of the past decade. Most DDR3 modules were found to be susceptible to this vulnerability which can compromise data directly inside the memory cells. What made it so scary was the fact that it could be exploited from software on PCs, clouds, smartphones, over…
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Why Cloudflare Chose AMD EPYC for Gen X Servers
Looking back at this week's posts on the design, specifications, and performance of Cloudflare’s Gen X servers using AMD CPUs. Every server can run every service. This architectural decision has helped us achieve higher efficiency across the Cloudflare network.
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New Chip Brings Ultra-Low Power Wi-Fi Connectivity to IoT Devices
More portable, fully wireless smart home setups. Lower power wearables. Batteryless smart devices. These could all be made possible thanks to a new ultra-low power WiFi radio developed by UC San Diego engineers. It enables WiFi communication at 5,000 times less power than commercial WiFi radios.
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Amazon Common Software for Devices
Apply today to join the Amazon Common Software (ACS) for devices preview! We use ACS in Amazon devices, including the Echo Dot (3rd generation) and the Amazon Smart Oven, and now you can use it to accelerate integration of Amazon Device SDKs on your devices to bring them to market more quickly and cost-effectively.
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Servers for an Accelerated Future
We designed and built Cloudflare’s network to be able to grow capacity quickly and inexpensively; to allow every server, in every city, to run every service; and to allow us to shift customers and traffic across our network efficiently.
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A Practical Guide to Watchdogs for Embedded Systems
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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New AMD EPYC-based Compute Engine family, now in beta
N2D VMs are the first AMD-based instances on Google Cloud.
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Lasers etch a 'perfect' solar energy absorber
The same technology Rochester researchers used to create unsinkable metal structures can also be used to create highly efficient solar power generators.
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MIDI 2.0, first major overhaul to music interface standard from 1983
The new standard is almost here. Will it change how producers and performers make music?
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PinePhone Misconceptions
I take no pleasure in writing this blog post. In fact, even as I am writing these words I am internally torn on whether this is the right approach to addressing the problem on hand. Whether I’ve chosen the right approach remains to be seen, but regardless, I now feel it’s time to confront misconceptions about the…
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I2C in a Nutshell
A community and blog for embedded software makers
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Weird and Innovative Chips (2007)
The GDP was exclusively object oriented - normal linear memory access wasn't allowed, and there was hardware support for data hiding, methods, inheritance, late binding, and access protection, and it was promoted as being ideal for the Ada programming language. To enforce this, permission and type checks for every…
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Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
We’re kicking off this year’s CES with some big news. Millions of users and thousands of companies across the world already use Arduino as an innovation
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Ouster's new digital Lidar – 128 beams, ultra-wide view
Ouster's next step: 128-channel lidar sensors with long range and an ultra-wide field of view, built on its digital lidar architecture.
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Wi-Fi Alliance Brings Wi-Fi 6 into 6 GHz
Wi-Fi 6E will rapidly deliver benefits in 6 GHz once available
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Exploiting Wi-Fi Stack on Tesla Model S
In the past two years, Keen Security Lab did in-depth research on the security of Tesla Cars and presented our research results on Black Hat 2017 and Black Hat 2018. Our research involves many in-veh
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Arduino programmable air, pneumatics kit
Arduino boards have been employed in all sorts of robotics and IoT applications, although working with air as a power source is less than straightforward.
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New laser ultrasound technique can remotely image the inside of a person
MIT researchers have produced the first “laser ultrasound” images in humans, using eye- and skin-safe lasers. The new technique enables noncontact ultrasound imaging, which may help clinicians to remotely assess patients, infants, and contact-sensitive subjects such as burn victims.
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In Memoriam of Charles “Chuck” Peddle
It is with sadness WDC/I announce that on December 15, 2019, Chuck Peddle passed away. We send our heartfelt condolences to his family, friends and the personal computer industry. We have lost a pioneer with Chuck’s passing.