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The “high-level CPU” challenge (2008)
Do you love ("very") high-level languages? Like Lisp, Smalltalk, Python, Ruby? Or maybe Haskell, ML? I love high-level languages.
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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 264 posts.
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Pixel Visual Core: Google’s first custom-designed co-processor
Google’s first custom-designed co-processor for consumer products is built into every Pixel 2. Soon, it will enable more applications to use Pixel 2’s camera for taking …
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Ford Pilots New Exoskeleton to Help Lessen Chance of Worker Fatigue, Injury
The official home for stories from Ford. Get the latest news, in-depth vehicle features, media site information, and meet the people and ideas driving our company forward.
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Coreboot and Skylake, Part 2: A Beautiful Game
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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Get eyes in the sky with your Raspberry Pi
Learn how to use your Raspberry Pi and a cheap USB TV tuner stick to start tracking flights overhead - up to 250 miles away from your location.
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Memory bandwidth
Absolute memory bandwidth figures tend to look fairly large, especially for GPUs. This is deceptive. It’s much more useful to relate memory bandwidth to say the number of clock cycles or inst…
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Analysis of Soviet smoke detector plutonium
Technical nuclear forensics-themed discussion of the age, activity, and grade of plutonium found in a KI-1 Soviet smoke detector.
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iPhone 8 Plus: The best smartphone camera we’ve ever tested
Please note: In September 2019, we updated the DXOMARK Mobile test protocol to cover ultra-wide-angle performance and renamed the protocol DXOMARK Camera. We also expanded our low-light testing and created the new Night sub-score, which incorporates the previous Flash score. We have retested this device using the new…
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Building a Thermal Camera
I'm a Computer Science graduate working in software & electronics development.
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ARM Releases Machine Readable Architecture Specification
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Which GPU(s) to Get for Deep Learning
Here, I provide an in-depth analysis of GPUs for deep learning/machine learning and explain what is the best GPU for your use-case and budget.
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Analog Computers
Analog computers, predominant in high-performance computing until the 1970s, were forgotten when digital computers took over. We need to change that.
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Fused Video Stabilization on the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL
Posted by Chia-Kai Liang, Senior Staff Software Engineer and Fuhao Shi, Android Camera TeamOne of the most important aspects of current smartphones...
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Reprogramming a $13 consumer wifi-enabled outlet
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Automated snare drum made to the order of Aphex Twin (2014)
This musical robot consists of a high quality Ludwig snare drum automated with 13 beaters hitting different spots of the membrane from the inside. Two solenoid driven drum sticks, mounted externally, take care of the rimshots. Of course, all beaters have a precise and wide range velocity control. The snares can be…
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Fuzzing PCI express: security in plaintext
Google recently launched GPUs on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), which will allow customers to leverage this hardware for highly parallel workloads. These GPUs are connected to our cloud machines via a variety of PCIe switches, and that required us to have a deep understanding of PCIe security.
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Triple Flaw in Nest's Dropcam
Secure your Internet-connected home and family devices with advanced IoT solutions from Bitdefender Smart Home Cybersecurity.
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Avegant “Light Field” Display
Surprised at CES 2017 – Avegant Focus Planes (“Light Field”) While at CES 2017 I was invited to Avegant’s Suite and was expecting to see a new and improved and/or a lower cost ver…
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Long-range communication with devices that consume almost no power
UW researchers have demonstrated for the first time that devices that run on almost zero power can transmit data across distances of up to 2.8 kilometers — brea
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Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
Which is faster, keyboard or mouse? A large number of programmers believe that the keyboard is faster for all (programming-related) tasks. However, there are a few widely cited webpages on AskTog which claim that Apple studies show that using the mouse is faster than using the keyboard for everything and that people…
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OpenBSD and the modern laptop
Did you think that OpenBSD is suitable only for firewalls and high-security servers? Think again. Here are my steps to transform a modern m...
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Red Hat Introduces Arm Server Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Today marks a milestone for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of a new architecture to our list of fully supported platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM is a part of our multi-architecture strategy and the culmination of a multi-year collaboration with the upstream community and our silicon and hardware…