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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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The most popular blog posts about hardware & electronics on Hacker News. 264 posts.
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Fearless concurrency in your microcontroller
A blog about Rust and embedded stuff
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Dell Offers Computers Preinstalled with Ubuntu
Looking for a new PC with Ubuntu pre-installed? We thought we’d run through the latest Dell Precision computers that come pre-installed with Ubuntu. These are systems developed by and for developers, and are available in form factors ranging from sleek ultrabooks to powerful workstations. Here’s a quick runthrough of…
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RISC-V port accepted for inclusion in GCC
This is the mail archive of the gcc@gcc.gnu.org mailing list for the GCC project .
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Retina iMac owners can greatly improve graphics performance of many applications
Hmph! Not sure which one is "correct" there... hmm... If you use kCGImageAlphaPremultipliedFirst for the CGBitmapContext rather than kCGImageAlphaNoneFirst, then it looks closer to the original, maybe. ? Also other caveat: NSBitmapImageRep can't seem to deal with the ARGB format either, so if you use that you need to…
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Processing the Page Turn
This board isn’t strictly a CPU but it is a processor of sorts. I actually purchased this board as it was described as a DEC board, with not a great picture, having not seen a DEC board with LOGIC ALUs on it I bought it. When it arrived I found it wasnt DEC at all but DSC, Digital Services Corporation. DSC was a video…
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2017 Camera News
Herewith some reportage on the most interesting cameras in the world, with opinions to provoke er entertain people who are up on this stuff, and a basic survey of the landscape for people who like pictures and wonder about cameras.
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New silicon structure opens the gate to quantum computers
In a major step toward making a quantum computer using everyday materials, a team led by researchers at Princeton has constructed a key piece of silicon hardware capable of controlling quantum behavior between two electrons with extremely high precision.
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iPhone 6 slows down by 28% after just 4 months use
After just 140 charging cycles, which could happen after just 4 months usage, the iPhone is running 28% slower than it does with a new battery.
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How I discovered my left AirPod was bad
tl;dr: My left AirPod had some hardware issue. I got a new one. Now the AirPods work great. The morning Apple's AirPods went up for sale, I was boarding a plane, and had just gotten to my seat on the plane. I knew they'd be in short supply (though I didn't know just how short—my local Apple Store only gets a small…
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Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air
Engineers used the flow of water over a crystal plate to generate a stable ring of plasma without a vacuum chamber or electromagnetic fields to contain it.
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Repairing a 1960s mainframe: Fixing the IBM 1401's core memory and power supply
A few weeks ago, I wanted to use one of the vintage IBM 1401 mainframe computers at the Computer History Museum, but the computer wasn't wor...
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Second version of HoloLens HPU will incorporate AI coprocessor
By Marc Pollefeys, Director of Science, HoloLens It is not an exaggeration to say that deep learning has taken the world of computer vision, and many other recognition tasks, by storm. Many of the most difficult recognition problems have seen gains over the past few years that are astonishing. Opens in a new tab…
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Typing with pleasure, and low latency
In this article I examine human- and machine aspects of typing latency (“typing lag”) and present experimental data on latency of popular text / code editors. The article is inspired by my work on implementing “zero-latency typing” in IntelliJ IDEA.
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3D scanning like a pro
Almost any sensor yields more interesting results if mounted on a moving platform. Remember scanning thermometer ? It’s time to mount TOF LIDAR (Time Of Flight / Light Imaging, Detection, And Ranging) on two precision rotary stages arranged for pan and tilt operation. Rig provides real-time position data along with…
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Yubico announces tiny, cheap YubiHSM 2
Learn more about what's happening within the tech and cybersecurity industry and the developments in our business and security keys within our Yubico Blog.
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Intel Delivers 17-Qubit Superconducting Chip
Intel Newsroom delivers the latest news, announcements, and updates. Stay informed on Intel innovations.
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Caffe2 adds 16 bit floating point training support on the NVIDIA Volta platform
After open sourcing Caffe2 at F8 last month, today we are are excited to share our recent work on low precision 16 bit floating point (FP16) training in collaboration with NVIDIA.
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Fixing the Ethernet Board from a Vintage Xerox Alto
A Xerox Alto system on the East coast had Ethernet problems, so the owner sent me the Ethernet board to diagnose. (After restoring our Alto,...
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iPhone 8 Plus Camera Review
The iPhone 8 Plus across western India — Portrait Lighting put to work on real faces, plus the quieter upgrades that matter to creative pros.