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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 1,766 posts.
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Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow
New technology will extend Wi-Fi® solutions for the Internet of Things
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Programming Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi
How to combine Minecraft and the Wolfram Language, both standard on Raspberry Pi, to make interesting structures, add character capabilities or render your own output in 3D. Clear instructions on installation, using the MinecraftLink library, building, reacting to events.
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Drone Hacking Part 1: Dumping Firmware and Bruteforcing ECC
Desoldering a drone's flash chip and reconstructing the firmware from broken data.
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Z-Wave Alliance Announces Z-Wave Source Code Project Now Open and Available
Additionally, Exegin Technologies has demoed how Z-Wave Source Code can be ported to third-party silicon, opening members to develop on any chip provider of their choice. Beaverton, OR – December […]
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The 64-core Parallella is alive
Adapteva is now Zero ASIC - www.zeroasic.com
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QCSuper: A tool for capturing 2G/3G/4G air traffic on Qualcomm-based phones
QCSuper, an open-source tool, helps capture mobile network frames from Qualcomm-based Android devices, enabling analysis in Wireshark and more.
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Google Pixel Buds
Google Pixel Buds, available now with high-quality sound, clear calls and a sleek design for a great truly wireless earbuds experience.
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x86: Approaching 40 and still going strong
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Charging electric vehicles 5x faster in subfreezing temps
A modified manufacturing process for electric vehicle batteries, developed by University of Michigan engineers, could enable high ranges and fast charging in cold weather, solving problems that are turning potential EV buyers away.
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New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
Apple today updated MacBook Air, with faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard and twice the storage. It’s available for just $999.
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The most powerful MRI scanner in the world delivers its first images
September 2021, the 11.7 Tesla MRI of the Iseult project, the most powerful in the world for human imaging, has just unveiled its first images.
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First set of Android apps for ChromeOS
Chromebooks were designed to keep up with you on the go—they’re thin and light, have long battery lives, resume instantly, and are easy to u...
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Raspberry Pi on Raspberry Pi
Question: Is the Raspberry Pi 4 any good? Answer: It’s good enough to run its own launch website with tens of millions of visitors.
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Librem 5 design report
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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Theoretical way to levitate objects with light
Specially designed materials enable objects of different sizes to be levitated and manipulated with light, thanks to new research from Caltech scientists.
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Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29
At DEF CON 29, a security researcher exposed the vulnerabilities of farm equipment manufacturers.
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Sony and Panasonic announce the Archival Disc format
Tokyo, Japan - March 10, 2014 - Sony Corporation ("Sony") and Panasonic Corporation ("Panasonic") today announced that they have formulated "Archival Disc", a new standard for professional-use, next-generation optical discs, with the objective of expanding the market for long-term digital data storage.
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SIMD Instructions Considered Harmful (2017)
In the process of writing a short introduction to RISC-V, we compared RISC-V vector code to SIMD. We were struck by the insidiousness of the SIMD instruction extensions of ARM, MIPS, and x86. We de…
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JEDEC publishes GDDR7 graphics memory standard
ARLINGTON, Va., USA – MARCH 5, 2024 – JEDEC Solid State Technology Association , the global leader in the development of standards for the microelectronics industry, is pleased to announce the publication of JESD239 Graphics Double Data Rate (GDDR7) SGRAM. This groundbreaking new memory standard is available for free…
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Advanced Performance Extensions (APX)
These extensions expand the x86 instruction set with access to registers and features that improve performance.
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Amazon RDS on Graviton2 Processors
I recently wrote a post to announce the availability of M6g, R6g and C6g families of instances on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). These instances offer better cost-performance ratio than their x86 counterparts. They are based on AWS-designed AWS Graviton2 processors, utilizing 64-bit Arm Neoverse N1 cores…
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Air Quality Monitors from USD $169 to $6k use the same low-cost PM Modules
Why monitors priced from hundreds to thousands of dollars often use the same low-cost PM modules, and what that means for performance claims.
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Nintendo Controller Teardown
We’re tearing down the evolution of Nintendo controllers since the very beginning.
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Modos Paper Monitor Pre-Launch on Crowd Supply
A fast, low-latency, open hardware e-ink monitor and dev kit
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Making floating point math highly efficient for AI hardware
In recent years, compute-intensive artificial intelligence tasks have prompted creation of a wide variety of custom hardware to run these powerful new systems efficiently. Deep learning models, suc…