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Applied Materials Bets $5B on a New Model for Chip Innovation
Published: October 12, 2026, 4:59 pm
Applied Materials’ $5 billion EPIC Center brings chipmakers, equipment suppliers, and researchers together to accelerate semiconductor R&D and commercialization.
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Embedded Graphics on an MCU – Without an Accelerator
Published: October 12, 2026, 4:49 pm
Join this webinar and learn how to add LCD graphics to MCU projects without a display controller, accelerator, or external DRAM.
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EU CRA Readiness: 5 Steps Manufacturers Need to Take Now
Published: October 12, 2026, 1:00 pm
Consumer, industrial, networking, semiconductor, and software manufacturers face a broad product-cybersecurity regulation for the first time.
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Xanadu Builds Out Canadian Quantum Infrastructure
Published: October 12, 2026, 12:00 pm
Manufacturing partnerships and public sector funding are moving Xanadu’s quantum technology toward manufacturable, utility-scale systems.
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Security Becomes a Sign-off Item
Published: October 12, 2026, 7:10 am
Europe’s CRA turns chip security into auditable sign-off, pushing silicon teams to prove resilience before 2027.
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Hackaday News
The Prusa Core One+ INDX, a Troubled Multi-Extruder Upgrade?
Published: October 12, 2026, 8:00 pm
The Prusa Core One+ INDX is an interesting upgrade to the base FDM printer by Prusa, featuring eight independent extruders – hence the INDX – that in theory should allow …read more
The Hexa-Bouncer May Be The Most Overengineered Thing You See This Week
Published: October 12, 2026, 6:30 pm
Sometimes, you want to build a simple project– the minimum viable product that solves your problem and nothing else. Other times you might be feeling a little extra, and want …read more
DARPA Lift Challenge Won by Helicopter
Published: October 12, 2026, 3:30 pm
America’s mad scientists all have one dream: DARPA money. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, regularly throws round sweet, sweet tax dollars to push the envelope on any number …read more
Your Computer Memory is a Lie
Published: October 12, 2026, 2:00 pm
When you first learn to program, memory seems pretty straightforward. You have a bunch of bytes, each with an address. If you want to read or write something, you specify …read more
Backup Tapes Come Back to the Homelab
Published: October 12, 2026, 11:00 am
It’s one of the great mysteries of computing, how somehow in the Year Of OLlama 2026, tape remains the god of cheap storage. A while back [Ben Pettis] recounted his …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Turn every escape room puzzle into a Home Assistant device
Published: October 12, 2026, 9:22 pm
Djair Guilherme has released two open source Arduino libraries on Hackster that make an escape room puzzle show up in Home Assistant as a device. esp32_escaperoom runs on ESP32 boards and handles WiFi and MQTT. propmaker_escaperoom runs on the RP2040 using the Adafruit PropMaker Feather, has no network and talks to other puzzles over RS485. […]
Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S is an integrated 4.3-inch ESP32-P4 + ESP32-C5 touch display devkit
Published: October 12, 2026, 9:06 pm
Debashis Das writes at CNX Software about the Wireless-Tag WT32P4C5-43S, a 4.3-inch touch display development board that pairs an ESP32-P4 MCU with an ESP32-C5 wireless module for dual-band WiFi 6 on 2.4 and 5 GHz, Bluetooth LE, and 802.15.4. Earlier ESP32-P4 and ESP32-C5 boards needed a separate display. This one has the screen on board. […]
Ledger finds unauthorized hardware implant in CryptoBilis-sold wallet amid fund theft reports
Published: October 12, 2026, 9:01 pm
The Hacker News reports that Ledger has paused sales of its hardware wallets through the reseller CryptoBilis after users in Southeast Asia reported stolen funds. Pseudonymous blockchain investigator Specter puts the losses at more than $86 million. Ledger says one of the affected users’ devices contained an unauthorized hardware implant. The company told anyone who […]
8-channel analog monitor with NXP HEF4052BP and Arduino
Published: October 12, 2026, 8:51 pm
Robert Fletcher posted a project on Hackster that reads eight analog inputs using only two Arduino ADC pins. The part doing the work is the NXP HEF4052BP, a dual 4-channel analog multiplexer. Each switch section routes one of four analog signals to a common pin, and both sections share the same two address lines and […]
Stylophone Mini turns the classic pocket synth into a keychain
Published: October 12, 2026, 8:46 pm
Synthhead at Synthtopia reports that Stylophone has released the Mini Original, a keychain-sized version of its stylus-played electronic instrument. The original Stylophone dates to 1968. The Mini keeps the metal keyboard, the attached stylus and a built-in speaker, shrunk down to something that hangs off a set of keys. It adds a vibrato effect, a […]
Electronics Weekly News
Gadget Watch: Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5
Published: October 12, 2026, 4:25 pm
Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team highlighting this one: the Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, a third-party AI accelerator board built around the DEEPX DX-M1M NPU.
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Ofcom and JOINER to study satellite spectrum coexistence
Published: October 12, 2026, 2:48 pm
Ofcom and the JOINER Platform – a research network initiative – have agreed to collaborate to provide technical evidence for Ofcom’s consideration of future spectrum policies The goal is to […]
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Apple Fold A Long Time Coming
Published: October 12, 2026, 1:30 pm
Back in 1985 Apple patented this design for a folding phone: The hinge was located at the “bite” mark that opened sideways to reveal an earpiece and physical keypad. It […]
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MEMSensing bone-vibration sensor offers noise cancellation alternative
Published: October 12, 2026, 12:47 pm
MEMSensing is launching its bone-vibration sensor into Europe. The compact MEMS device provides a voice reference for environmental noise cancellation in TWS earbuds (true wireless stereo) and other smart wearables. […]
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UK’s Drone Test Centre gets new NADIC facility
Published: October 12, 2026, 9:16 am
The UK’s Drone Test and Development Centre (DTDC) – at Westcott Venture Park near Aylesbury – is getting a new facility dubbed the National Autonomy and Drone Innovation Centre (NADIC). […]
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