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Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), nicknamed Chinese artificial sun, has achieved over 100 million degrees electron temperature in the core plasma in its 2018 four-month-long experiment campaign.
Community updates make Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle more useful, with Tailscale SSH, proxy modes for KOReader, and full TUN mode on some devices. Plus: plugins for Kobo and Pocket Reader.
Apple announced iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max, delivering an advanced pro camera system and improved battery life and performance.
tl;dr: There are 6, it's unfortunately very confusing to the end user. Classic USB from the 1.1, 2.0, to 3.0 generations using USB-A and...
An on-demand recording of our May 20 event is available. Today, at a special event on our new Microsoft campus, we introduced the world to a new category of Windows PCs designed for AI, Copilot+ PCs. Copilot+ PCs are the fastest, most intelligent Windows PCs ever built. With powerful new silicon capable of an…
Introducing Figure 03
We present a new type of augmented mechanical keyboard, sensing rich and expressive motion gestures performed both on and directly above the device. A low-resolution matrix of infrared (IR) proximity sensors is interspersed with the keys of a regular mechanical keyboard. This results in coarse but high frame-rate…
American, the world’s largest airline, poised to have the world’s largest supersonic fleet with new Boom Supersonic aircraft
The official Raspberry Pi 7 inch touchscreen display is available to buy, with an 800×480 RGB screen, 24-bit colour and 10-point capacitive touch.
The Fairphone (Gen. 6+) is here. With more power under the hood, a brand-new color, and more software features, it's everything you love about Fairphone. Plus more.
With "Passive Wi-Fi," UW computer scientists and electrical engineers have generated Wi-Fi transmissions using 10,000 times less power than conventional methods
Our Kickstarter campaign for our next generation of Solo products launches on January 26th. To get alerted when the campaign is live, you can sign up here. Update: The campaign is now live! Check it out to see all the details. Humble beginnings I've been working on Solo for almost 3 years now. It started back when I…
Important lessons from trying to build the world's fastest autorouter for about a year
We love TPUs at Google, but GPUs are great too. This chapter takes a deep dive into the world of GPUs – how each chip works, how they're networked together, and what that means for LLMs, especially compared to TPUs. While there are a multitude of GPU architectures from NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and others, here we will…
The race is on to test new vehicles in the underground Large Hadron Collider tunnel, ahead of major works starting this summer
We've seen the strong reaction from the community over the idea that we've stopped developing the Flipper Zero firmware. We want to address this and let you know that we've heard all your feedback and have decided to rethink our approach to maintaining the project and engaging with the community.
IBM unveiled a major semiconductor breakthrough with the introduction of the world’s first sub-1 nanometer (nm) chip technology, featuring a revolutionary transistor architecture at the 0.7 nm, or 7 angstrom node.
Arm unveils its first-ever public CPU forward-looking roadmap and performance numbers.
CT scans of four USB-C cables from $4 to $129 reveal nine-layer PCBs, length-matched signal traces, and floating pins.
On June 28, Samsung Electronics, together with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physic
Author: Nitay Artenstein Introduction Fully remote exploits that allow for compromise of a target without any user interaction have become something of a myth in recent years. While some are occasionally still found against insecure and unpatched targets such as routers, various IoT devices or old versions of Windows…
How does the latest entry-level MacBook perform on database workloads? We benchmarked it using ClickBench and TPC-DS SF300. We found that it could complete both workloads, sometimes with surprisingly good results.
