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Core Devices keeps stealing our work
Edit (November 26th, 2am Pacific): This post was originally titled “Core Devices Keeps Stealing Our Work”. We’ve had a bit of time to reflect on this blog p...
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Tektronix equipment has been used in many movies and shows
Explore Tektronix equipment in films and TV at vintageTEK. Find detailed screenshots and IDs of scopes, probes, and monitors from 1953–1984.
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Archimedes – A Python toolkit for hardware engineering
A great engineer (controls being no exception) has to be part hacker, part master craftsman.
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Samsung's 60% DRAM price hike signals a new phase of global memory tightening
Samsung’s 60% DRAM price hike tightens supply. Learn how rising DDR5 and DDR4 prices impact buyers, sellers, and used RAM markets in 2026.
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iPhone Pocket
ISSEY MIYAKE and Apple today unveiled iPhone Pocket, designed to fit any iPhone as well as all pocketable items.
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Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem
The software update includes a more unified user experience across connected devices, enhancements to AI Vision Inside™, expanded Knox Security and more
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IKEA launches new smart home range with 21 Matter-compatible products
IKEA is launching 21 new smart home products focusing on lighting, sensors, and control — all built to work with Matter, the universal smart home standard. A significant step in making smart home technology easier to use, more affordable, and better adapted to real-life needs in the home.
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The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory
Reportedly Microsoft's first hardware product.
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Measuring the doppler shift of WWVB during a flight
We advertise 100 kHz as the lower edge of HackRF Pro ’s operating frequency range, but that isn’t a hard limit. While working on the design, I realized that it should work fairly well to pick up longwave time signals such as WWVB , broadcast at 60 kHz from Colorado, USA.
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RISC-V takes first step toward international ISO/IEC standardization
At RISC-V Summit North America 2025, Andrea Gallo, CEO RISC-V International, and Phil Wennblom, Chair of the ISO/IEC Joint Technical Committee (JTC 1)., announced that RISC-V International has been approved as a PAS Submitter by the ISO/IEC JTC1.
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Asus Announces October Availability of ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX
ProArt Display 8K PA32KCX arrives in October! Experience 8K HDR with mini LED, 4032-zone dimming, 1200 nits brightness, built-in colorimeter & Thunderbolt 4. Perfect for creators. Subscribe to ASUS Pressroom for the latest tech updates!
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Our LLM-controlled office robot can't pass butter
Can LLMs control robots? We answer this by testing how good models are at passing the butter – or more generally, do delivery tasks in a household setting. State of the art models struggle, with the best model scoring 40% at Butter-Bench, compared to 95% for humans.
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Galaxy XR: The first Android XR headset
Galaxy XR is now available today. Here’s what to expect.
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iPad Pro with M5 chip
Apple today introduced the new iPad Pro with M5, delivering a huge boost in performance and taking the next big leap in AI for iPad.
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Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip
Apple introduced the upgraded Apple Vision Pro, featuring the powerful M5 chip, the Dual Knit Band, and innovative features with visionOS 26.
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Apple M5 chip
Apple today announced M5, delivering advances to every aspect of the chip and the next big leap in AI.
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NVIDIA DGX Spark In-Depth Review: A New Standard for Local AI Inference
Thanks to NVIDIA’s early access program, we are thrilled to get our hands on the NVIDIA DGX™ Spark. It’s quite an unconventional system, as NVIDIA rarely releases compact, all-in-one machines that bring supercomputing-class performance to a desktop workstation form factor.
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Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot
Introducing Figure 03
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A beginner's guide to deploying LLMs with AMD on Windows using PyTorch
Get started running LLMs with PyTorch on Windows using AMD consumer graphics hardware.
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Thunderscan: A clever device transforms a printer into a scanner (2004)
The first project that I worked on for Apple after starting in August 1979 was writing low level software for the Silentype printer (see What Hath Woz Wrought ) , a cute, inexpensive thermal printer for the Apple II, that was based on technology licensed from a local company named Trendcom. In typical Apple fashion…
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Zero ASIC releases Wildebeest, the highest performance FPGA synthesis tool
Democratizing silicon
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High-power microwave defeats drone swarm
Epirus announced today the results of an August 26 demonstration of the company’s Leonidas high-power microwave (HPM) system that delivers weaponized…
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Raspberry Pi 500+
A complete desktop PC built into a high-quality mechanical keyboard, with 16GB RAM and a 256GB SSD for high performance under heavy load.
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CT scans of 1k lithium-ion batteries show quality risks in inexpensive cells
Lumafield’s Battery Quality Report exposes hidden risks in 18650 cells; 1 in 13 low-cost units have dangerous defects. See how CT helps enforce safety.
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Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD
Spectral Labs releases SGS-1: the first generative model for structured CAD.
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