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Building a More Secure World with the RISC-V ISA
RISC-V International Staff RISC-V International’s staff bring together expertise from multiple disciplines to advance our mission of promoting the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA). On the RISC-V blog, we highlight...
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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
Eben gives you a crash course in how modern processors work to explain why Raspberry Pi is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.
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Vulnerability of Speculative Processors to Cache Timing Side-Channel Mechanism
Arm is committed to upholding the highest standards of security across its products and the wider Arm ecosystem. To support its partners and the broader community, Arm publishes three types of security-related documentation, Security Bulletins, Security Updates, and Security Articles.
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An Update on AMD Processor Security
The AMD Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) is the focal point for reporting potential product security issues to AMD. AMD PSIRT works with both the AMD internal product security team and the external product security ecosystem, including security researchers, industry peers, government organizations…
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Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air
Engineers used the flow of water over a crystal plate to generate a stable ring of plasma without a vacuum chamber or electromagnetic fields to contain it.
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iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use
After just 140 charging cycles, which could happen after just 4 months usage, the iPhone is running 28% slower than it does with a new battery.
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A Message to Our Customers about iPhone Batteries and Performance
Understand iPhone performance and its relation to your battery.
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ESP8266 ePaper WiFi Display Kit Runs for Months on a Charge
In my humble opinion—as I’ve mentioned elsewhere—ePaper is really an amazing display technology that has never really burst onto the mainstream. ePaper is incredibly energy efficient, requiri…
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Reviving the Apple 410 Color Plotter
After seeing some of the jaw-dropping and inspiring plotter art that's been popping up on #plottertwitter this year, I decided to get in on the fun. We don't
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iPhone Performance Degrades as Battery Ages
A Reddit post from last week has sparked a discussion regarding iPhone performance as a function of battery age. While we expect battery capacity to decrease as batteries age, we expect processor performance to stay the same. However, users with older iPhones with lower-than-expected Geekbench 4 scores have reported…
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On the dangers of Intel's frequency scaling
While I was writing the post comparing the new Qualcomm server chip, Centriq, to our current stock of Intel Skylake-based Xeons, I noticed a disturbing phenomena.
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New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers
In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between two electrons with extremely high precision.
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Qualcomm Centriq 2400: The first 10nm server processor
The Qualcomm Centriq 2400 has launched! Here are the details...
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3-D printed plastic objects that can communicate with WiFi devices
UW engineers have developed the first 3-D printed plastic objects that can connect to other devices via WiFi without using any electronics, including a laundry
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Can I erase sensitive data on an old hard drive with Neodymium Magnets?
Discover secure hard drive destruction methods using powerful magnets to safeguard sensitive data.
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Fast desktop-scale extrusion 3D printing
On-demand printing: A new MIT 3-D printer is 10 times faster than commercial counterparts.
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EC2 Bare Metal Instances with Direct Access to Hardware
When customers come to us with new and unique requirements for AWS, we listen closely, ask lots of questions, and do our best to understand and address their needs. When we do this, we make the resulting service or feature generally available; we do not build one-offs or “snowflakes” for individual customers. That…
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Samsung Develops Battery Material with 5x Faster Charging Speed
Recently, a team of researchers at the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) dev
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Origami-inspired soft artificial muscles
By Lindsay Brownell (CAMBRIDGE, Mass.) — Soft robotics has made leaps and bounds over the last decade as researchers around the world have experimented with different materials and designs to allow once rigid, jerky machines to bend and flex in ways that mimic and can interact more naturally with living organisms…
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Don't Feed Them After Midnight: Reverse-Engineering the Furby Connect
A Accenture oferece oportunidades que surgem a partir da disrupção tecnológica em todas as indústrias, em todos os países, todos os dias. Saiba mais!
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An in-depth security review of the Intel Management Engine
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