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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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Drivetrain Design for Boosted's Electric Skateboard
The drivetrain, like the motor controller, has evolved extensively since the boards we built before Kickstarter. We’re going to take you through some of the principles and constraints that have...
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Librem 5 general development report – October
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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Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
The adhesive neck patch is the latest advance by UCLA bioengineers in speech technology for people with disabilities.
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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
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Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files and the runtime
Apple announced that it would be moving from Intel processors to Arm-based Apple Silicon CPUs for Macs at WWDC 2020. The Apple Silicon-based Mac Book Air and Pro were released in October 2020 with great fanfare.
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Google Tensor SoC debuts on the new Pixel 6 this fall
Google Tensor is our first custom-built SoC specifically for Pixel phones, and it will power the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro later this fall.
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What I Wish I Knew About U2F and Other Hardware MFA Protocols
We revamped the second-factor authentication in Teleport 6.0. This post provides a birds-eye view of U2F and other cryptographic hardware standards.
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New hard drive rituals (2018)
Over the last 10 years that I've been messing around with Linux servers (hence the name of the site by the way) there's been one thing above all else that's always required special care - hard drives. They are mechanical beasts just waiting to eat your data at any time. Entire businesses are built around their…
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Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
Conical slicing tilts the layers into cones instead of stacking flat planes, which lets you print steep overhangs without support. The catch is your printhead.
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How Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep its data centers running reliably
Peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) hardware continues to push the boundaries of computing thanks to advances in transfer speeds, the number of available lanes for simultaneous data de…
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Cartoons in Tektronix Schematics
Explore Tektronix schematic cartoons with vintageTEK. Discover hidden humorous drawings in manuals and schematics from classic Tektronix gear.
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Engineers demo first processor that uses light for ultrafast communications
Landmark advance to usher in new era of ultrafast communications
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Mishap during experiment led quantum researchers to crack a 58-year-old puzzle
A mishap during an experiment led UNSW quantum computing researchers to crack a mystery that had stood since 1961.
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Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Debut as First Built on Intel 18A
Intel ushers in the next generation of AI PCs with exceptional performance, graphics and battery life; available this month
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Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
Learn from Docker experts to simplify and advance your app development and management with Docker. Stay up to date on Docker events and new version
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SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment and technologies
Comparison confirms that SMIC reaches 7nm without access to western equipment & technologies. Our analysis also uncovered many similarities between the SMIC 7nm and the TSMC 7nm, which are available in our comparison brief.
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Rust is rolling off the Volvo assembly line
In my job I get to speak to lots of people about Rust. Some are just starting out, some have barely ever heard of it, and then some people are running Rust silently in production at a very large company in a very serious product.
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86Box: Why Not Pentium III?
When does “preservation” in emulation become impractical?
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Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
Earlier this year we published a puzzle that handed you a complete neural network and asked you to figure out what it did. The response was great, so we’ve made another one! This time, we’re going much deeper down the tech stack.
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Worlds first petahertz transistor at ambient conditions
In a groundbreaking international effort, researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypassing a physical barrier almost instantaneously.
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Italian CPU – The Genesys B52 MMX
On this site you can read about thousands of processors models. And every year it is more and more difficult to write about some new (old) processors, since everything has been known for a long time. But there are also exceptions to the rule which we love to find. In 2021, I learned about one unusual processor, the…
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Pine64 March update: making waves
Long awaited community update is here! Introducing PineVox and bone conduction headset (help us find a name!), IronOS progress, PineNote insights, and PineTime news! We also cover cluster failure, state of services, and the future of the community updates. See you in the upcoming Q&A!
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TRRespass: Rowhammer against DDR4
Project Description Rowhammer haunted us for the better part of the past decade. Most DDR3 modules were found to be susceptible to this vulnerability which can compromise data directly inside the memory cells. What made it so scary was the fact that it could be exploited from software on PCs, clouds, smartphones, over…
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Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball
The Classic 2 is a brand new revision of the original Classic, and kits are available today starting at $144CAD !