EE Times News
Canadian Startup Aims to Be Quantum’s ‘Picks’ and ‘Shovels’
Published: October 28, 2026, 8:50 pm
Toronto-based Meissner Technologies uses AI and laboratory testing to discover superconducting materials that could cut cooling costs and help quantum computers scale.
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SK Hynix Reports Record Q3 Results Driven by AI Memory Surge
Published: October 28, 2026, 4:43 pm
Long-term customer contracts and rising chip prices point to a change in how memory manufacturers manage multi-year production capacity and capex.
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Secure Safety and Security Communications
Published: October 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
This whitepaper explores how building safety and security systems can overcome the limitations of legacy RS-485 networks by adopting Single Pair Ethernet (SPE). It examines the growing demands of AI-enabled surveillance, access control, cybersecurity, and system convergence, while highlighting how SPE delivers secure, scalable communications over existing infrastructure. Readers will learn about SPE architectures, migration […]
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Full-Stack Semiconductor Solutions for Embodied AI & Robotics
Published: October 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
NSING Technologies, a Singapore-founded semiconductor company, presents this whitepaper on its full-stack semiconductor solutions for embodied AI and robotics, built around high-performance MCUs, security ICs, wireless connectivity and BMS ICs. The document explains the industry shift toward distributed robotic architectures that combine AI main control with deterministic real-time joint, motor and sensor nodes. It details […]
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Intel Wants a Quantum Business, Classiq Could Help Build One
Published: October 28, 2026, 8:05 am
After years of hardware research, Intel plans to acquire a software platform that connects quantum developers with enterprise users.
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Hackaday News
Does Running an E-Paper Display at 30 FPS Destroy It?
Published: October 28, 2026, 8:00 pm
Although e-paper displays are famous for being low-power and lasting essentially forever if not damaged physically, the recent push to drive even cheaper e-paper displays at a framerate like 30 …read more
C64 Keycaps For Everybody
Published: October 28, 2026, 6:30 pm
If you’ve got an MX-style keyboard and want some retro charm, you might like a recent project from [Levente Szabadkai]. It’s a set of C64-style keycaps that you can print …read more
Turning an Old Phone’s Motherboard into an RC Plane Controller
Published: October 28, 2026, 3:30 pm
Upcycling smartphones makes a lot of sense, especially since they contain so many components that remain useful long after their desirability as a smartphone has faded. In the case of …read more
JPEG-XL Is Back On The Menu
Published: October 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
Many of the image formats we’re familiar with have been around for decades. We all know JPEG and PNG like the back of our hands, and GIF even had a …read more
Emulate the 486 in Your Browser
Published: October 28, 2026, 11:00 am
You might fondly remember the days of the Intel 486, but you probably don’t have one on your desk anymore. If you’d like to emulate that classic hardware, you can …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Can AI design a working PCB? @JLCPCB
Published: October 28, 2026, 9:28 pm
JLCPCB posted on X about a board designed with the help of an AI agent working in KiCad. The builder, who goes by John, used the workflow to produce a GNSS module based on the u-blox MAX-M10S receiver. The finished board measures 25 by 36.5 mm and uses a 4-layer stackup. It was manufactured and […]
Reach your ESP32’s web page from anywhere
Published: October 28, 2026, 9:13 pm
Pinscope has posted a tutorial on hackster.io that makes an ESP32’s own web page reachable from outside the local network, without a port forward or a VPN. The device opens one outbound connection and gets an HTTPS address, live logs, charted metrics, decoded crash reports and over the air firmware updates. Setup is one ESP-IDF […]
MP3 player cassette, version 2
Published: October 28, 2026, 9:09 pm
C Forde built an MP3 player shaped like a cassette tape, and posted the build on Hackster.io. It plays through headphones on its own, or it sits in a cassette deck and feeds audio to the player’s own head through a tape head mounted in the shell. Version 2 replaces most of the point to […]
Encrypted IoT networking via RF24Gateway with nRF24, nRF52x and nRF54x. Coming soon
Published: October 28, 2026, 8:49 pm
TMRh20Projects posted on the Seeed Studio forum about adding encryption to RF24Gateway. The work builds on nrf_to_nrf, a library for direct radio communication on XIAO nRF52840 and nRF54L15 boards. It does not use Bluetooth or Zigbee. It uses the Enhanced ShockBurst (ESB) protocol and direct radio access. The library already included AES/CCM encryption, and that […]
The IBM PC 5150, Revision A vs Revision B
Published: October 28, 2026, 8:39 pm
Dave Farquhar at The Silicon Underground compares the two versions of the original IBM PC 5150, pegged to the October 27, 1982 date on the Revision B BIOS. The fronts look identical. The back tells you which one you have: Revision B is marked with a B in a circle and has positions for five […]
Electronics Weekly News
DigiKey adds to its Standard Product range
Published: October 28, 2026, 3:35 pm
DigiKey has expanded its DigiKey Standard Product range, which addresses the “everyday needs of engineers, technicians and makers”. Its own-label product line now includes a soldering station, an ESD silicone […]
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Tesla’s R&D Costs Rising
Published: October 28, 2026, 2:12 pm
Tesla’s R&D spending is rising significantly faster than its revenue. In Q1 2026, the company’s R&D-to-revenue ratio reached a new high of 8.7%, up from 3.3% in early 2023. By […]
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Microchip adds LX-820 Quartz Oscillator to L-Series for LEO apps
Published: October 28, 2026, 11:22 am
Microchip is adding the LX-820 Radiation-Tolerant Quartz Oscillator to its L-Series of timing devices. The part is designed for Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and other space applications. The L-Series is […]
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Anduril and Qualcomm hook up for ruggedised laptop
Published: October 28, 2026, 6:18 am
Yesterday, Anduril and Qualcomm said they had developed a prototype of a ruggedised laptop assembled in the US with 90% of its components sourced in the US. They call it […]
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Lam and Imec pursue 3-D integration
Published: October 28, 2026, 6:16 am
Lam and imec are collaborating to accelerate manufacturing readiness for 3D integration technologies supporting advanced packaging and next-generation memory. By bringing together Lam’s capabilities in deposition and etch with imec’s […]
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