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Fixing the MacBook Pro
Despite my love for the previous Retina MacBook Pro , I won’t be able to use it forever. The best laptop to ever exist should be in the future, not the past.
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Project Silica proof-of-concept stores movie on quartz glass
Microsoft and Warner Brothers collaborate to store and retrieve the 1978 'Superman' movie on a piece of glass roughly the size of a drink coaster.
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Pinephone first steps
After anki trashed my history, uploaded the trashed history to the sync server, and then repeatedly re-synced the trashed history every time I tried to restore from backup, I wrote my own spaced repetition app. It reads input from a markdown file, asks questions in the terminal and stores state in a json file. I wrote…
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SiFive P550 Core: High-Performance RISC-V Processor
New SiFive Performance Family of application processors offers best in class performance, area, and efficiency for a wide variety of markets
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Connect to your Raspberry Pi over USB using gadget mode
We’ve written previously about how to configure WiFi and SSH on your Raspberry Pi without having to connect any peripheral devices (headless). As long as you’re comfortable on the command line, this makes it much easier to work with your Pi.
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What can we learn from leaked Insyde's BIOS for Intel Alder Lake
Leaked story timeline According to the timestamp of the github repository, an unidentified user uploaded the Insyde’s partial firmware solution (4.
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Laser-generated surface structures create extremely water-repellent metals
Scientists at the Institute of Optics have used lasers to transform metals into extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic, materials without the need for temporary coatings.
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Listening to satellites for $30
I've ever dreamed of space & satellites, it turms out you can received pictures from them.
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Arduino Goes Pro at CES 2020
We’re kicking off this year’s CES with some big news. Millions of users and thousands of companies across the world already use Arduino as an innovation
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Nvidia’s latest GPU drivers can upscale old blurry YouTube videos
Learn how RTX Video Super Resolution uses AI to improve streaming video in latest Game Ready Driver for GeForce RTX 40 and 30 Series GPUs.
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Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy
Sony PlayStation 2 fixing frenzy - retrohax.net I once wrote a blog post about Nintendo Wii controllers. That post was already based on ...
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E Ink Kaleido 4
With its new design, E Ink Kaleido 4 supports a broader range of digital content. Compared to the previous generation, E Ink Kaleido 4 doubles its color gamut volume to more than 40K, increases white reflectance by 15%, and improves contrast by 50%. Additionally, with the introduction of new algorithms, E Ink Kaleido…
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GPT-Synopsys: Frontier Intelligence to Revolutionize Chip Design
Companies form strategic partnership to dramatically advance and accelerate semiconductor innovation News Highlights: Companies sign multi-year agreement to collaborate as preferred partners to...
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Yubico: Secure Hardware vs. Open Source
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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Building my own HomeKit Thermostat
Built a custom HomeKit enabled thermostat, because I was fed up with the walled gardens of Nest
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W die shots
Teardown and analysis of electronics. Integrated circuit design analysis.
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Rules for new FPGA designers
It’s a new school year!
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Analyzing the Monoprice Blackbird HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Down Converter
I got my hands on a Monoprice Blackbird 4K Pro HDCP 2.2 to 1.4 Converter . According to the marketing copy it “is the definitive solution for playback of new 4K HDCP 2.2 encoded content on 4K displays with the old HDCP 1.4 standard.”
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Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker
Most speakers emit sound in all directions because they are relatively small compared to the wavelength. Audible sounds have wavelengths of up to several meters, so an acoustically "large" speaker might not even fit in your house.
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Recreating Voodoo Graphics and a Late-1990s Gaming PC on an FPGA
I've spent the last month adding features and improving performance in z486_MiSTer , mostly working through games from the first half of the 1990s. Looking a few years ahead brought me to another change I wanted to explore: the arrival of 3D graphics cards.
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It took me nine years to hack my Xbox 360
I purchased a Matrix CoolRunner Rev D back in 2017. This little chip is called a glitcher and it’s a type of modchip. Its sole purpose, the reason it was designed, is to deliver a short pulse of energy (~ 100 nanoseconds) to an Xbox 360 Console.
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Nintendo DS code editor and scriptable game engine
I built a scriptable 3D game engine for the Nintendo DS so you can write and run games directly on the console itself. Written in C using libnds , it compiles to a 100KB .nds ROM that runs at 60 FPS . Features a touch-based code editor on the bottom screen and real-time 3D rendering on the top screen. Ships with a…
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The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive
While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it ...
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Reverse Engineer the BL602 WiFi Driver
What happens inside the WiFi Driver on RISC-V BL602... And how we found the incomplete source code for the driver
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Half-Double: New hammering technique for DRAM Rowhammer bug
Research Team: Salman Qazi, Yoongu Kim, Nicolas Boichat, Eric Shiu & Mattias Nissler Today, we are sharing details around our discovery of ...
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Are Your Devices Hardwired for Betrayal?
It's an interesting time to be a computer security researcher. Last week, Kaspersky Lab released a report about a new family of malware from an entity they called "The Equation Group". The report demonstrated for the first time that firmware-based attacks, previously only demonstrated in lab...
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Peloton cuts back on Apple Watch support
With one of Peloton's latest updates, they have cut back the ability to connect the Apple Watch with the Bike+ Bootcamp Classes (in addition to it being already disabled for for Strength and Yoga Classes)
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