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Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
Explore our portfolio of alternative topology and architecture technologies that improve efficiency and scalability of Wi-Fi® networks.
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Passive Wi-Fi: Bringing Low Power to Wi-Fi Transmissions
Bryce Kellogg, Vamsi Talla, Shyamnath Gollakota, and Joshua R. Smith, University of Washington
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Librem 5 design report
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS
Update 2021-11-12: System76 is now using the LVFS to distribute firmware. We're working together to put much more firmware on the LVFS in the future. System76 is a hardware vendor that builds laptops with the Pop_OS! Linux distribution pre-loaded. System76 machines do get firmware updates, but do not use the fwupd and…
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Researchers have developed a water-based battery to store solar and wind energy
Stanford scientists have developed a manganese-hydrogen battery that could fill a missing piece in the nation’s energy puzzle by storing wind and solar energy for when it is needed, lessening the need to burn carbon-emitting fossil fuels.
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The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates
Helium-filled hard drives attempt to cut down on friction, leading to better performance. We’ve crunched the numbers: how do they actually perform?
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Apple iMac Pro and Secure Storage
Explore the Duo Blog for expert tips, security insights, and resources to stay updated on the latest in security and access management trends.
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Nvidia Tesla V100 on Google Cloud Platform
NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs are now available in beta on Compute Engine and GKE, and NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPUs are now GA.
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A manufacturing process that produces long strips of high-quality graphene
MIT engineers have developed a scalable manufacturing process that spools out strips of graphene for use in ultrathin membranes.
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Tiny Steps Towards Liberating Bootloaders and Modem Firmware of MediaTek Phones
Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones
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NEON is the new black: fast JPEG optimization on ARM servers
Cloudflare's jpegtran implementation was optimized for Intel CPUs. Now that we intend to integrate ARMv8 processors, new optimizations for those are required.
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Atomically thin LED opens the possibility for invisible displays
Tiny device opens the door to displays that would be bright when turned on but see-through when turned off -- or in futuristic applications such as light-emitting tattoos
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Intel’s Chipped Chips
Typically when collecting something, be it coins, cars or CPU’s having the most pristine unblemished example is highly desirable. However, sometimes, the best example is one that isn’t perfect, in coin collecting it may be a rare double struck coin, or some other flaw that actually makes the coin more valuable.
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New Raspberry Pi Model B+
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Raspberry Pi 3), featuring a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, 3x faster Ethernet, faster wireless LAN, and more.
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Prototype to production: How to build and design a PCB prototype
Learn how to build a PCB prototype, define fabrication specifications, and create gerber files in our new comprehensive guide
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Why has CPU frequency ceased to grow? (2014)
A portfolio of HPC tools help data scientists, researchers, and developers efficiently build cross-architecture applications.
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Newly observed optical state could enable quantum computing with photons
MIT and Harvard physicists have created a new form of light that could enable quantum computing with photons.
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Cloud TPUs in Beta
Starting today, Cloud TPUs are available in beta on Google Cloud to help machine learning (ML) experts train and run their ML models more quickly.
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However improbable: The story of a processor bug
Processor problems have been in the news lately, due to the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities. But generally, engineers writing software assume that computer hardware operates in a reliable, well-understood fashion, and that any problems lie on the software side of the software-hardware divide.
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Librem 5 Phone Progress Report
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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