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Thermal Testing Raspberry Pi 4
Raspberry Pi 4 just got a lot cooler! The last four months of firmware updates have taken over half a watt out of idle power and nearly a watt out of fully loaded power
GitHub Trip Report
I, the founder of Fossil, was invited and attended the first meeting of the GitHub Open Source Advisory Board in San Francisco on 2019-11-12. This post is a report of my adventures.
The plot thickens for a hypothetical “X17” particle
This content is currently in the process of being archived and integrated into the CERN Library collections.
Discovering less-known Postgres v12 features
Get to know and learn how to use some less-known features of Version 12 of PostgreSQL. You'll surely discover something new for yourself.
Real hardware breakthroughs, and focusing on rustc
The Redox official website
Why does the Librem 5 phone cost that much?
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.
PHP 7.4
PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
64 bits ought to be enough for anybody
How quickly can we use brute force to guess a 64-bit number? The short answer is, it all depends on what resources are available. So we’re going to examine this problem starting with the most naive approach and then expand to other techniques involving parallelization. We’ll discuss parallelization at the CPU level…
“We would like to apologize to the user for the error on our part this morning”
TikTok is the world's leading destination for short-form mobile videos. Our mission is to capture and present the world's creativity, knowledge, and moments that matter in everyday life. TikTok empowers everyone to be a creator directly from their smartphones, and is committed to building a community by encouraging…
Ketogenic diet helps tame flu virus in mice
Mice fed a ketogenic — or very low-carb — diet were better able to combat the flu virus than mice fed food high in carbohydrates, according to a new Yale study.
Link between inflammation and mental sluggishness shown in new study
Scientists at the University of Birmingham in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam have uncovered a possible explanation for the mental sluggishness that often accompanies illness.
DDR4 SDRAM – Initialization, Training and Calibration
A detailed tutorial on DDR4 SDRAM Initialization, Training and Calibration. Exploring topics such as Read/Write Training, ZQ Calibration, Vref Training, Read Centering, Write Centering, Write Leveling and Periodic Calibration.
Thousand year-old windmills in Iran (2017)
The Long Now Foundation fosters long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.
Astrophotography with Night Sight on Pixel Phones
Posted by Florian Kainz and Kiran Murthy, Software Engineers, Google Research Taking pictures of outdoor scenes at night has so far been the dom...
Our Startup Handbook
Over the past ten years, we have invested in and worked with close to 100 startups. Along the way, we have seen teams, ideas, and practices work spectacularly well. And, we’ve seen others that didn’t work out as expected. We decided to take the experiences and insights learned over the past decade and compile them […]
Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
Explore cutting-edge cryptographic techniques for machine learning on encrypted data. Discover how to process sensitive information without decryption, ensuring privacy and security.
Scala.js 1.0.0-RC1
Harness the Scala and JavaScript ecosystems to develop robust apps for browsers, serverless, and Node.js.
In defense of 'flicks' (or how I learned to stop worrying and love 705600000)
Essentially a flick is just a really big number, specifically the number 705,600,000 and tries to solve a problem that nobody in digital media actually has.
Unleashing Open-Source Silicon
We all know that open source software has changed the fundamental nature of the software industry and that Google generously adds fuel to this culture of openness and community through Google Summer of Code. What few people realize is that there is another major industry that is ripe for an open source overhaul—the…
The Ripe NCC Has Run Out of IPv4 Addresses
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