EE Times News
U.S. Quantum Bet Puts Hardware First, But Utility Remains the Test
Published: May 22, 2026, 9:26 pm
A $2 billion CHIPS Act package backs quantum hardware across major modalities, underscoring Washington’s view of quantum computing as strategic infrastructure. The harder task is turning that hardware into useful applications.
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Commercial Space Screening Approach for Agile, High-Reliability Payloads
Published: May 22, 2026, 2:14 pm
Date: Tuesday, June 30, 2026 Time: 15:00 CEST As the Space market evolves and accelerates, mission designers need space-capable electronics that balance performance, reliability, and affordability, without sacrificing speed to deployment. Join this webinar where we’ll explore ADI’s approach to supporting New Space programs through our purpose-built screening flows: Commercial Space Low (CSL) and Commercial Space […]
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U.S. Injects $2B into Quantum Computing Companies
Published: May 22, 2026, 12:58 pm
Washington signals its intent to lead the quantum computing revolution with a $2 billion investment and equity stakes.
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Imec Says AI Scaling Needs More Orchestration Across Research, Design, Manufacturing
Published: May 22, 2026, 7:30 am
Co-optimization and collaboration were key themes at ITF World 2026, alongside imec’s Neuropixels 3.0 research and imec.ventures’ work with startups.
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AMD Plans $10B Investment in Taiwan to Boost AI Infrastructure
Published: May 21, 2026, 4:34 pm
AMD to invest more than $10 billion in Taiwan ecosystem, ramping HPC chips on TSMC’s 2-nm process amid AI buildout.
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Hackaday News
Building an Analog Meter Watch
Published: May 23, 2026, 5:00 pm
Most conventional analog watches have two or three hands, covering hours, minutes, and seconds (where present). [Sahko] has built a different kind of analog watch that creatively displays the time …read more
Amazing Stories
Published: May 23, 2026, 2:00 pm
The 2026 installment of Hackaday Europe was last weekend, and I’m still basking in the warm glow of hanging out with such an inspiring group of hackers. It’s hard to …read more
Water-cooling a 3D Printed Rocket Isn’t Quite Practical
Published: May 23, 2026, 11:00 am
Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that survives high temperatures. [Mr. More Gooder] wasn’t deterred …read more
Unitree GO-M8018-6 Motor Reverse Engineering
Published: May 23, 2026, 8:00 am
People seem to be rather into the Unitree Go2 quadruped robot, if only for the low price tag. But perhaps more interesting are the motors that propel it — they …read more
The Team Behind The Flipper One Needs Your Help
Published: May 23, 2026, 5:00 am
You’ve probably heard of the Flipper Zero, a pocket-sized device that packs in lots of great hacking potential. The team behind it has now turned their efforts towards developing the …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Stormlight Spheres From Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive
Published: May 23, 2026, 5:28 pm
In an earlier video, Myth Made shows how you can save money by making your own wireless LEDs. In this video, they put the cute little LEDs to use by crafting a pouch full of Stormlight Spheres. The process, while tedious, is pretty straightforward, involving setting the LEDs in epoxy resin. In this video, I […]
Superhero Power Plant #AdafruitLearnSystem
Published: May 23, 2026, 4:00 pm
Superhero Power Plant Inspired by Iron Man’s Arc Reactor Planning an epic Iron Man costume for Halloween or Comic Con, or looking for that iconic piece that turns a plain t-shirt into Tony Stark? Look no further, for in this guide we’ll show you how to make your own electronic glowing reactor with a cool […]
World Cup, World Cultures at the American Museum of Natural History
Published: May 23, 2026, 2:00 pm
LeFrak theater: Alvaro Keding/© AMNH Stadium: Csaba Peterdi/Adobe Stock AMNH is celebrating World Cup 2026 with a series celebrating “the science, culture, and shared experience of athletic competition“. On May 28 3 drop-in activities start, allowing visitors to explore: the science of sport materials & geometry of sports, the cultural influence of sports around […]
From the Adafruit Learning System: eInk Slow Movie Player
Published: May 22, 2026, 8:00 pm
Create a beautiful, incredibly slow eInk movie player and luxuriate in the composition of each and every frame of your favorite movies. 24FPS? No way, let’s play it back at 24 frames per hour instead. Or, any timing and frame interval you like. Check out the guide from John Park.
Rugged Modular Cyberdeck #piday #raspberrypi
Published: May 22, 2026, 7:11 pm
Jankbu on YouTube needed a new laptop and wanted something a little more unique. Tired of lugging around a closed system that he had no connection with he opted to build his own CyberDeck. A few highlights include the sliding screen and trackball mouse. I built this modular cyberdeck instead of buying a new laptop. […]
Electronics Weekly News
CSA Catapult joins project SONATA for aircraft taxiing system
Published: May 22, 2026, 2:32 pm
Compound Semiconductor Applications (CSA) Catapult has announced that it will be bringing its SiC (silicon carbide) power expertise as a technology partner to project SONATA. This is developing an on-aircraft ...
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Swiss And Euro Microbots Win Gold
Published: May 22, 2026, 1:15 pm
Swiss and French microrobots walked away with gold at the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Alaska. In the Mobile Microrobotics Challenge, six teams from Canada, Europe ...
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Ubotica, NOVI Space partner on AI-enabled Earth Observation
Published: May 22, 2026, 11:22 am
Ubotica Technologies is partnering with Novi Space to deliver real-time intelligence directly from the Earth’s orbit. The former specialises in space AI and the latter in edge computing in orbit. ...
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MLX81119 integrates on-chip DC/DC power with LIN RGB automotive lighting
Published: May 22, 2026, 10:11 am
For the automotive market, Melexis is releasing the MLX81119, an 18-channel LIN RGB LED controller with an integrated 1A DC/DC converter. The latter generates an optimised local LED supply voltage ...
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Smart swimming goggles make a splash
Published: May 22, 2026, 9:29 am
After featuring smart cricket balls, footballs, tennis racquets and golf clubs on Gadget Master, why not smart swimming goggles?
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