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Coreboot and Skylake, Part 2: A Beautiful Game
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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Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)
In this piece, two researchers from PLA-affiliated National University of Defense Technology argue that Starlink will negatively impact global stability, in light of its clear military applications, increased risks of accidents and collisions in space, and SpaceX's close relationship with the U.S. military. The…
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KiCad and Wayland Support
The KiCad development team frequently receives questions about our support for Wayland. Given that Fedora and Ubuntu are both planning to drop X11 support from their main desktop environments in the near future, we want to provide clear, transparent guidance to our users about the current state of Wayland support in…
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AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others
FEATURED NEWS California NanoSystems Institute > Featured News > August 15, 2022 | AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others AI-designed camera only records objects of interest while being blind to others To image, or not to image: Class-specific diffractive cameras with…
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1GB Raspberry Pi 5, and memory-driven price rises
A new 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 maintains access to low-cost computing amid memory-driven price rises on some other Raspberry Pi products.
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Cloud TPU v5p and AI Hypercomputer
The new TPU v5p is a core element of AI Hypercomputer, which is tuned, managed, and orchestrated specifically for gen AI training and serving.
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Storage Pod 4.0: Direct Wire Drives – Faster, Simpler and Less Expensive
Get all of the latest cloud storage news and insights from Backblaze - the leading independent cloud storage provider.
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OCaml All the Way Down – How Jane Street Builds FPGA Designs [video]
Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm and liquidity provider with a unique focus on technology and collaborative problem solving.
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Make Your Car Electric for 5K in Less Than a Day
Make your car electric for 5k in less than a day. A new motor and a new approach to convering cars to hybrid electric.
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Sony A1 Complete Disassembly and Teardown
Sony A1 Complete Disassembly And Teardown. One year ago, Sony announced this beautiful beast, and today we’re going to take it apart!
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Seagate Introduces a 60TB SSD – Is a 3.6PB Storage Pod Next?
Yes you read that correctly - a 60TB SSD. So what does that mean for cloud backup? Is a 3.6PB storage pod on the horizon? We take a look at the numbers.
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Fun With Pinball
Fun With Pinball small board assembly instructions explanations flipper solenoid stepper video
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New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6
Apple today announced the new 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6, delivering more performance, powerful on-device AI capabilities, and faster connectivity.
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iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested
Please note: In September 2019, we updated the DXOMARK Mobile test protocol to cover ultra-wide-angle performance and renamed the protocol DXOMARK Camera. We also expanded our low-light testing and created the new Night sub-score, which incorporates the previous Flash score. We have retested this device using the new…
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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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An iroh powered smart fan
Putting iroh on a bare ESP32 to build a temperature-driven smart fan you can check on from anywhere.
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Fluke owns trademark on multimeters with "contrasting yellow border"
SparkFun is forced to incinerate 2,000 multimeters because they are yellow.
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iPhone Duo Teardown
We took the Duo all the way down to the gears, followed glowing dust into its hinge, and put its crease-hiding nano-texture under the microscope.
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Available on Google Cloud: Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory
In-memory workloads continue to be the backbone of innovative data management use cases, but as demand increases, so does the need for even larger memory capacity. In July, we announced a partnership with Intel and SAP to offer GCP virtual machines supporting Intel® Optane DC™ persistent memory for SAP workloads. This…
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Ham Radio 101: What is WSPR?
Learn how WSPR (weak signal propagation reporter) technology is a fascinating facet of the Ham radio hobby in this easy-to-follow article.
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DDR Type 2 Short-wave spy transmitter
East-German spy radio set Type 2, used during the Cold War by agents working for East-Germany (DDR).