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Why Raspberry Pi Isn't Vulnerable to Spectre or Meltdown
Eben gives you a crash course in how modern processors work to explain why Raspberry Pi is unaffected by the Spectre and Meltdown security vulnerabilities.
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 117 posts.
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MacBook Pro with faster performance and new features for pros
Apple today updated MacBook Pro with faster performance and new pro features, making it the most advanced Mac notebook ever.
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LEGO built a life-size, drivable Bugatti from over a million Technic pieces
Find the LEGO Group press releases, latest company news, product announcements and assets at the LEGO® Newsroom.
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Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup
I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.
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Codec2: A Whole Podcast on a Floppy Disk
The automatic audio post production webservice.
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Learning Dexterity
Stay up to speed on the rapid advancement of AI technology and the benefits it offers to humanity.
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New Raspberry Pi Model B+
Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ is now on sale for $35 (the same price as the existing Raspberry Pi 3), featuring a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, 3x faster Ethernet, faster wireless LAN, and more.
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Introducing Project Mu
The Microsoft Devices Team is excited to announce Project Mu, the open-source release of the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) core leveraged by Microsoft products including both Surface and the latest releases of Hyper-V. UEFI is system software that initializes hardware during the boot process and…
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EC2 Instances Powered by Arm-Based AWS Graviton Processors
Earlier this year I told you about the AWS Nitro System and promised you that it would allow us to “deliver new instance types more quickly than ever in the months to come.” Since I made that promise we have launched memory-intensive R5 and R5d instances, high frequency z1d instances, burstable T3 instances, high…
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Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
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.
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Arm Announces Client CPU Roadmap For Laptops
Arm unveils its first-ever public CPU forward-looking roadmap and performance numbers.
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New Google Pixel 3, Pixel Slate, and Home Hub
We’re introducing our third-generation family of hardware products made by Google, including Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, Pixel Slate and Google Home Hub.
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On the Sad State of Macintosh Hardware
Apple badly needs to update the Mac lineup both now, and more consistently in the future.
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Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department
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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USB-C Explorer – A development board to get started working with USB Type-C
I've been quiet for a while, mostly because I've been working on a new USB-C board. Actually, the board didn't take the most time; that would be the firmware development. (Never underestimate firmware). The result is a cool piece of gear, a powerful development platform, and a stronger firmware libr
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Wi-Fi alliance announces mesh networking standard
Explore our portfolio of alternative topology and architecture technologies that improve efficiency and scalability of Wi-Fi® networks.
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A new Xbox controller to make gaming accessible to more people with disabilities
The new Xbox Adaptive Controller will make gaming accessible to people with a broad range of disabilities.