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Apple introduces M4 chip
Apple today announced M4, the latest Apple-designed silicon chip delivering phenomenal performance to the all-new iPad Pro.
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Willow, Our Quantum Chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
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Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses
Today we unveiled Orion, which we believe is the most advanced pair of AR glasses ever made.
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AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd by looking at them
A University of Washington team has developed an artificial intelligence system that lets someone wearing headphones look at a person speaking for three to five
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Why we use our own hardware
Why we use our own hardware and what the tradeoffs and costs look like
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The era of open voice assistants
Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is the best way to get started with our open and privacy-focused voice assistant.
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M4 MacBook Pro
Apple today unveiled the new MacBook Pro, powered by the M4 family of chips: M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max.
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Kino: Pro Video Camera
Today we're excited to launch Kino, a powerful filmmaking app for beginners and experts alike. As say they say in screenwriting, "Show, Don't tell," so let's walk through a few of the tent-pole features in our huge 1.0 release.
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Meta Horizon OS
Today we’re taking the next step toward our vision for a more open computing platform for the metaverse. We’re opening up the operating system powering our Meta Quest devices to third-party hardware makers, giving more choice to consumers and a larger ecosystem for developers to build for. We’re working with leading…
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EUCLEAK Side-Channel Attack on the YubiKey 5 Series
Download the Writeup Illustration Romain Flamand – Flamingo Studio – flamandromain@gmail.com Abstract Secure elements are small microcontrollers whose main purpose is to generate/store secrets and then execute cryptographic operations. They undergo the highest level of security evaluations that exists (Common…
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iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max
Apple today introduced iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, featuring Apple Intelligence and innovative pro camera features.
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SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud
A blog by and for database architects.
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Amazon reveals first color Kindle, new Kindle Scribe, and more
Our e-reader lineup also features a reimagined Kindle Scribe and the fastest Kindle Paperwhite ever.
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New iMac with M4
Apple today announced the new iMac, featuring the powerful M4 chip and Apple Intelligence, in its stunning, ultra-thin design.
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Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft
Today, Boom announced the successful flight of XB-1, the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet, at the Mojave Air & Space Port in Mojave, California. Like Overture, Boom’s supersonic airliner, XB-1 leverages state-of-the-art technologies to enable efficient supersonic flight including carbon fiber…
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An electric new era for Atlas
Our electric Atlas robot is here. With decades of robotics R&D and practical expertise, Boston Dynamics is tackling the next commercial frontier.
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New Mac Mini with M4
Apple today unveiled the all-new Mac mini powered by the M4 and new M4 Pro chips, and redesigned around Apple silicon so it’s even smaller.
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Why do electronic components have such odd values? (2021)
If you've been around electronics for a while, you've probably noticed that components like resistors, capacitors, zener diodes and inductors come in some odd values. Looking at the chart above, there seems to be no clear rationale behind the values, but there is a pattern. 47kΩ resistors and 22μF capacitors are…
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Build a Low-Cost Drone Using ESP32
Use ESP32 to build a budget-friendly drone from scratch.
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Intel Gaudi 3 AI Accelerator
Intel Gaudi 3 AI accelerator brings global enterprises choice for generative AI, building on the performance and scalability of its Gaudi 2 predecessor.
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New 13- and 15‑inch MacBook Air with M3 chip
Apple today announced the new MacBook Air with the powerful M3 chip, taking its power-efficient performance and portability to a new level.
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Llama 3.1 405B now runs at 969 tokens/s on Cerebras Inference
Llama 3.1 405B on Cerebras is by far the fastest frontier model in the world – 12x faster than GPT-4o and 18x faster than Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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Introducing Copilot+ PCs
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…
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Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
RAD Game Tools' web page. RAD makes Bink Video, the Telemetry Performance Visualization System, and Oodle Data Compression - all popular video game middleware.
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Box64 and RISC-V in 2024: What It Takes to Run the Witcher 3 on RISC-V
What It Takes to Run The Witcher 3 on RiSC-V