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Defense Sends Clear Signal to Canadian Semiconductor Industry
Published: June 19, 2026, 10:00 pm
Canada sharpens its defense and tech edge with policies to boost homegrown chip power.
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Amazon’s Newest Gambit: Selling AI Chips
Published: June 19, 2026, 12:19 pm
The world’s largest hyperscaler wants to seize the semiconductor moment by selling AI accelerators at scale.
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All Semiconductor Roads Lead to Taiwan
Published: June 19, 2026, 7:45 am
Small in size but outsized in influence, Taiwan has become a linchpin of the global semiconductor supply chain.
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Billions Pour into Autonomous Defense as AI Redefines Warfare
Published: June 18, 2026, 7:09 pm
Record investment is accelerating autonomous military tech, putting edge AI and drones at the center of modern conflict.
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The New Software Standard for Physical AI
Published: June 18, 2026, 2:00 pm
Building real-time physical AI applications—such as high-performance, multimodal object tracking for autonomous systems within a constrained power envelope—is notoriously difficult. It requires coordinating specialized hardware, managing complex data flows, and optimizing every microsecond for maximum performance. This tech paper explores how agentic software environments can dramatically accelerate the development and deployment of physical AI applications. […]
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Hackaday News
Home Automation: Simple vs Easy
Published: June 20, 2026, 2:00 pm
We’ve been talking a bunch of home automation on the Podcast lately, and this week, in the Mailbag segment, a reader asked us about our setups. Neither Kristina nor I …read more
The Repair Nightmare that are Smart Rings
Published: June 20, 2026, 11:00 am
In the quest to make every wearable device ‘smart’, a lot of electronics along have to be crammed in very small spaces, along with ways to make them resistant to …read more
A General Purpose Pi Zero Device for IoT
Published: June 20, 2026, 8:00 am
By now we’re all used to single board computers such as the Raspberry Pi Zero, but it’s likely we’ve all been frustrated at times by the number of support components …read more
Making Old Computers Count To A Million
Published: June 20, 2026, 5:00 am
How fast can you count to a million? It would probably take you a while. A computer could certainly do it faster. Indeed, the The National Museum of Computing figured …read more
How LLMs can be Assisted to do Arithmetic Correctly
Published: June 20, 2026, 2:00 am
One of the most hilarious things you can do with an LLM-based chatbot is to ask it to do calculations. If it’s a well-written chatbot frontend, it can detect requests …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Reads for All Ages #Juneteenth2026
Published: June 19, 2026, 9:00 pm
NYPL staff have once again put together a fantastic reading list, this time to honor Juneteenth: The books below, both fiction and nonfiction and for a span of age groups, delve into the Juneteenth holiday directly or take place during the joyous, yet tumultuous time period as slavery officially ended and freed Black people […]
WLED 16: What’s New #LED Matrices #AdafruitLearningSystem @Adafruit
Published: June 19, 2026, 5:29 pm
WLED 16 is the biggest LED control software upgrade in years, bringing powerful new creative tools to your LEDs. If you’ve been happily using WLED 0.14 or 0.15, this update adds major improvements for LED strips, matrices, wearables, sculptures, and interactive art. This guide is an overview of the new features in WLED 16 — […]
John Park’s CircuitPython Parsec: LCD Character Marquee Scroll
Published: June 19, 2026, 5:00 pm
#circuitpythonparsec Scroll text on the LCD Character display with the move_left and move_right commands. code example To learn about CircuitPython:
Anacostia Community Museum Expanded Juneteenth Celebration #Juneteenth2026
Published: June 19, 2026, 4:00 pm
The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum will host its largest-ever Juneteenth Freedom Celebration today from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Via Smithsonian The Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum will host its largest-ever Juneteenth Freedom Celebration Friday, June 19, anchored by a high-energy nighttime roller rink experience alongside live music and family activities. The free, full-day event, “Power […]
Drones in Detroit #makerbusiness
Published: June 19, 2026, 4:00 pm
A recent article in The New York Times reports on Michigan’s effort to pivot Detroit’s manufacturing legacy into the would-be fast growing U.S. drone industry. The piece follows Birdstop, a drone startup that moved into the former United Auto Workers training facility and examines how incentives, auto suppliers, and local investors are trying to make […]
Electronics Weekly News
Nordic finds dual-antenna nRF54L15 prototyping tag
Published: June 19, 2026, 2:38 pm
Nordic Semiconductor is launching its battery-powered, dual-antenna compact nRF54L15 prototyping tag, which is optimised for Google’s Find Hub and Apple’s Find My systems. The idea is for developers to to ...
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Pic of the Day: X59 completes its first supersonic flight
Published: June 19, 2026, 2:03 pm
I have quietly been following the progress of the X59 supersonic plane. So it would be remiss of me not to flag it officially completing its first supersonic flight.
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When Intel Didn’t Know The Importance Of Microprocessors
Published: June 19, 2026, 1:29 pm
At the 1996 Microprocessor Forum Intel Founder, Chairman, and CEO Gordon Moore described the genesis of the microprocessor. Back in 1970, recounted Moore, Intel had already identified calculators as a ...
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Nasa selects TT Electronics’ Hallogic sensors for Dragonfly Mission
Published: June 19, 2026, 10:44 am
TT Electronics is celebrating its Hallogic Hall-effect sensors being selected as part of Nasa’s Dragonfly Mission, which will send a robotic rotorcraft to a moon of Saturn. Specifically, it will ...
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Most Read – UK & Japan, Arm game, SpaceX IPO
Published: June 19, 2026, 9:04 am
The most read stories on the site cover UK and Japan technology agreements, SpaceX completing a successful IPO, and a scalable 300mm integration route for 2D-material based n and pFETs...
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