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Can a Prosthetic Hand Deliver Humanoid Dexterity?
Published: April 15, 2026, 4:31 pm
An AI bionic hand from BionIT Labs adds better grip and sensing to factory-floor humanoids.
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The Overlooked Infrastructure Behind AI Robots
Published: April 15, 2026, 1:00 pm
Industrial storage—not just AI—is the hidden key to reliable robots.
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How Europe Actually Finances Semiconductor Investments
Published: April 15, 2026, 8:00 am
As Europe’s semiconductor ambitions shift from policy announcements to real industrial projects, a less visible question is coming into focus: How do those projects actually get financed?
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SambaNova Teams Up With Intel on Disaggregated Inference
Published: April 14, 2026, 4:34 pm
SambaNova is working on integrating its RDUs with Intel Xeon CPUs for fast agentic inference
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How to Plan Agentic AI Deployment for Chip Design
Published: April 14, 2026, 1:30 pm
With 50% of advanced silicon already AI-assisted, the industry is shifting from "copilots" to autonomous agents capable of 100x productivity gains.
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Hackaday News
Hacking Fermentation for Infinite Pickles from Pass-thru Bioreactor
Published: April 15, 2026, 8:00 pm
Home-fermented foods are great– they’re healthier, more flavourful, and cheaper than store-bought alternatives. What they aren’t is convenient: you need to prep a big batch of veggies, let it sit, …read more
A Look at Full Spectrum 3D Printing
Published: April 15, 2026, 6:30 pm
Many modern desktop 3D printers include the ability to print in multiple colors. However, this typically only works with a few colors at a time, and the more colors you …read more
AI For The Skeptics: Attempting To Do Something Useful With It
Published: April 15, 2026, 5:00 pm
There are some subjects as a writer in which you know they need to be written, but at the same time you feel it necessary to steel yourself for the …read more
A 6502 All in the Data
Published: April 15, 2026, 3:30 pm
Emulating a 6502 shouldn’t be that hard on a modern computer. Maybe that’s why [lasect] decided to make it a bit harder. The PG_6502 emulator uses PostgreSQL. All the CPU …read more
A Tale of Cheap Hard Drives and Expensive Lessons
Published: April 15, 2026, 2:00 pm
When it comes to electronic gadgets, I’m a sucker for a good deal. If it’s got a circuit board on the inside and a low enough price tag on the …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Open Domesday – free digital access to eleventh century England
Published: April 15, 2026, 8:45 pm
Open Domesday by Anna Powell-Smith is the first free online copy of Domesday Book. Domesday Book (/ˈduːmzdeɪ/ DOOMZ-day; the Middle English spelling of “Doomsday Book”) is a manuscript record of the Great Survey of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 at the behest of William the Conqueror. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list […]
JP’s Product Pick of the Week 4/14/26 @adafruit @johnedgarpark #adafruit #newproductpick
Published: April 15, 2026, 8:30 pm
If you missed this week’s livestream of John Park’s Product Pick of the Week, not to worry, here’s the video. This week’s pick is the Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino v3 Kit! Watch the video to find out about the Adafruit Motor/Stepper/Servo Shield for Arduino v3 Kit, how to use it, a live demo, and […]
AI-Assisted Portable Somatic Wearable
Published: April 15, 2026, 8:00 pm
Researchers at MIT have developed a Portable Somatic Wearable. AI-assisted reflection systems are increasingly common, yet most remain primarily linguistic, overlooking the embodied and pre-cognitive signals through which people experience and silently express affect. We present the Portable Somatic Wearable, an interactive demo that enables attendees to engage in a short AI-guided voice reflection while […]
The CircuitMess NASA Artemis Watch 2.0
Published: April 15, 2026, 7:39 pm
CircuitMess timed the NASA Artemis Watch 2.0 perfectly into a cultural moment. This is a $129 programmable smartwatch, fully assembled and ready to use out of the box. The hardware inside includes a dual-core ESP32 microcontroller, a color LCD screen, an accelerometer, a gyroscope, a compass, and a temperature sensor. It pairs with iOS and […]
40 Year Old Printer Controller Runs DOOM! #CanItRunDoom
Published: April 15, 2026, 7:09 pm
image via Adrian’s Digital Basement The Agfa Compugraphic 9000PS was a RIP/Controller from the late 80’s. The computer was used to convert digital files for printing while maintaining format. The YouTube channel Adrian’s Digital Basement recently got their hands on one and the have been having fun tinkering with the old unit. Recently they […]
Electronics Weekly News
EIB backs PLD Space with €30m of funding for MIURA 5 rocket
Published: April 15, 2026, 4:15 pm
The EIB (European Investment Bank) is backing the Spanish startup PLD Space with €30 million of funding to develop its MIURA 5 launcher towards commercial operation. The company highlights it ...
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Rutronik makes industrial Infineon XMC5000 MCU series available
Published: April 15, 2026, 1:55 pm
Component distributor Rutronik is selling the Infineon XMC5000 series of dual-core microcontrollers, which are aimed at motor control, power conversion and industrial applications. Featuring an Arm 160MHz Cortex-M4F core, memory ...
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Musk’s ThornyQ
Published: April 15, 2026, 1:25 pm
On April 27th a legal case opens which will decide this ThornyQ: Is it fraudulent to raise investor cash as a not-for-profit company then switch to being a for-profit company? ...
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Abaco’s VP892 data processor runs AMD’s UltraScale+ VU13P
Published: April 15, 2026, 11:17 am
Abaco Systems, the embedded computing specialist, has announced the VP892, a rugged, 3U VPX FPGA processing system powered by AMD’s Virtex UltraScale+ VU13P. The VP892 supports high-bandwidth sensing and communications ...
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Published: April 15, 2026, 8:41 am
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