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Apple Introduces M2 Ultra
Apple today announced M2 Ultra, a new system on a chip (SoC) that delivers huge performance increases to the Mac and completes the M2 family.
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New world record with an electric racing car: From 0 to 100 in 0.956 seconds
Students from ETH Zurich and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts have broken the previous world record for acceleration with their hand-built electric racing car, mythen. The vehicle accelerated from zero to 100 km/h in 0.956 seconds over a distance of 12.3 metres.
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Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference
MLC-LLM makes it possible to compile LLMs and deploy them on AMD GPUs using ROCm with competitive performance. More specifically, AMD Radeon™ RX 7900 XTX gives 80% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4090 and 94% of the speed of NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 3090Ti for Llama2-7B/13B. Besides ROCm, our Vulkan support allows us…
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Raspberry Pi receives strategic investment from Arm
Arm has acquired a minority stake in Raspberry Pi, further extending a successful long-term partnership between the two companies.
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LogoFAIL: Secure Boot bypass with manipulated boot logos
LogoFAIL by BINARLY: Discover how vulnerable image parsing impacts device manufacturers in the UEFI firmware ecosystem. Learn about critical LogoFAIL…
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Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
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Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs
The first official release of Fedora Asahi Remix is slated to be available by the end of August 2023!
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Raspberry Pi 5 has no hardware video encoding and only HEVC decoding
Announcing Raspberry Pi 5, coming in late October: over 2x faster than Raspberry Pi 4, featuring silicon designed in-house at Raspberry Pi.
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Nordic is getting involved in RISC-V
What RISC-V will do is give our customers is an extra option when seeking to minimize power consumption in certain applications where the (many) tradeoffs of not using an Arm-based core are acceptable.
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How Does an FPGA Work?
Let’s start at the beginning. What is an FPGA ? Well, FPGA stands for F ield P rogrammable G ate Array , which isn’t helpful in understanding what they are or do but we had to get that out of the way.
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Calculators now emulated at Internet Archive
It's time to add another family of emulated older technology to the Internet Archive.The vast majority of platforms within what we call The Emularity happens because of the work of MAME Team, which has spent over 25 years adding support for tens of thousands of machines, platforms, and tools to their breathtaking…
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Arm Announces Public Filing for Proposed Initial Public Offering
Arm announces public filing of registration statement for proposed initial public offering
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iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
As market surveillance authority for radio equipment and responsible for controlling public exposure to electromagnetic fields, the ANFR runs inspections on mobile phones placed on the French market. 141 mobile phones, including Apple’s iPhone 12, have recently been tested to check compliance with limit SAR values…
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Unveiling secrets of the ESP32: creating an open-source MAC layer
Reverse engineering the ESP32 Wi-Fi hardware registers
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Home Assistant 2023.11
Introducing a brand new to-do entity type and use it locally with Todoist or Google Tasks. Matter 1.2 is here! New conditions for the conditional card to tailor your dashboards, select custom date ...
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Turning an old car into a powerful generator
See how an old car is turned into a powerful generator, a DIY project that reuses a vehicle to produce electricity.
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System76's coreboot open firmware manages to disable Intel ME for Raptor Lake
Read about the latest performance boosts, disabling Intel ME, Windows 11 support, and more!
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Review of Hetzner ARM64 servers and experience of WebP cloud services on them
TL；DR： Hetzner ARM64 performs very well, with the 4-core CAX21 (ARM64, 4 cores, 8GB RAM) machine only being 8% slower in WebP conversion speed compared to the 3-core CPX21 (AMD64, 3 cores, 4GB RAM), while the price difference between the two is 14% (8.40 USD/mo vs 9.76 USD/mo). Additionally, the CAX21 offers twice the…
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Removal of Mazda Connected Services integration
Why the integration has been removed from Home Assistant in 2023.10.2.
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Meta’s Reality Labs prototype hardware
Both Butterscotch Varifocal and Flamera are very much in the research stage, and the technologies they’re investigating may never make their way into a consumer-facing product. And, as we hope you’ll come to see, that’s very much the point.
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Bare-metal Rust in Android
Posted by Andrew Walbran, Android Rust Team Last year we wrote about how moving native code in Android from C++ to Rust has resulted in ...
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FlipperZero: 1 Month Battery Life with Firmware Update
We are proud to announce that starting the firmware version 0.82, your Flipper Zero's battery life will last up to 1 month! It took us 2 years to resolve all firmware issues that prevented Flipper Zero from switching to power-saving mode, resulting in the same power consumption baseline in
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Sorting waste and recyclables with a fleet of robots
Posted by Sergey Levine, Research Scientist, and Alexander Herzog, Staff Research Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Reinforcement lear...
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