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Quantum Scaling Is Becoming a Control-Electronics Problem
Published: September 9, 2026, 8:05 am
Too many wires, too much heat, and too much latency are forcing quantum control electronics deeper into the cold.
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Strategy Paper Urges Canada to Add Semiconductors to AI Strategy
Published: September 8, 2026, 7:00 pm
Canada’s sovereign AI ambitions will fall short unless procurement, talent, funding, and existing semiconductor strengths are aligned behind domestic hardware capability.
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The Pragmatic Path to Achieving CRA Compliance and Securing Your Access to the EU Market
Published: September 8, 2026, 2:39 pm
As the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) approaches, IoT manufacturers face stringent cybersecurity requirements across the entire product lifecycle. MediaTek, together with our strategic partners, invites you to this exclusive webinar to explore how the CRA reshapes the IoT landscape and gain actionable insights—from secure hardware design to long-term lifecycle management.
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The Security AI That Learns the Language of Movement
Published: September 8, 2026, 1:15 pm
UNC Charlotte researchers use edge AI to learn normal motion, predict what comes next, and flag anomalies for human review.
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Powering High Precision Lasers
Published: September 8, 2026, 1:00 pm
Today, no one can imagine life without the vast number of laser applications, ranging from milliwatt-class lasers to high-power processing.
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Hackaday News
Sick of Wayland vs. Xorg? How about GEM?
Published: September 9, 2026, 8:00 am
Between lawsuits from Apple, and Microsoft being Microsoft, Digital Research’s GEM desktop for DOS never really had a chance. It did have another life on Atari home computers, but it’s …read more
One Bit Sound with the ZX Spectrum
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:00 am
[Michael] has a thing for playing audio over beepers using a single bit. He’s done it with the Apple ][ and the IBM PC. This time he turns to the …read more
The Different Ways To Look at Negative Resistance
Published: September 9, 2026, 2:00 am
[lcamtuf] has an in-depth look at the concept of negative resistance that goes somewhat further than one might expect. Normally, as voltage across a resistance increases so too does the …read more
Anti-Doomscroll Tamagotchi Only Lives if You Do
Published: September 8, 2026, 11:00 pm
The odds are, you have a device deliberately designed to be addictive in your pocket or on the table next to you if you aren’t staring at it right now– …read more
Are Desktop PC-ABS Prints Outperformed by Industrial FDM? Not Really
Published: September 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
[Igor] of [My Tech Fun] set out to discover what differences, if any, can be found between parts printed in PC-ABS filament on an industrial 3D printer, and those from …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Celebrate 100 Years of Winnie-the-Pooh with the NYPL
Published: September 8, 2026, 8:00 pm
First published in October 1926, Winnie-the-Pooh is celebrating its 100th birthday. The New York Public Library will be honoring the anniversary with original illustrations, events, and more!
UN General Assembly endorses a new world map that shows more accurately Africa’s size
Published: September 8, 2026, 7:51 pm
The Associated Press reports that the United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to endorse the Equal Earth projection as a replacement for the Mercator map. The resolution was sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union members. It passed with 164 votes in favor. The U.S. voted against it, and Serbia, Estonia, Georgia, Lithuania, Moldova […]
How ‘cornflakes’ can help decode ancient writing
Published: September 8, 2026, 7:03 pm
Margherita Bassi, writing for Popular Science, reports on the small papyrus scraps that papyrologists call cornflakes. Each one holds a partial piece of an ancient text. This summer, nine researchers from around the world worked on them at the University of Michigan’s Papyrus Conservation Summer Seminar in Ann Arbor. Most arrived with no papyrus experience. […]
A vacuum tube computer for the home
Published: September 8, 2026, 6:55 pm
A project posted on Hackaday.io documents an 8 bit computer built entirely from vacuum tubes. The builder used recycled 1950s 6N3P double triodes, sourced in Eastern Europe a few years ago. The 6N3P is a Soviet era double triode, meaning two triodes share one glass envelope. That helps keep the tube count down, but a […]
The otherworldly geology of Vasquez Rocks
Published: September 8, 2026, 6:48 pm
NASA explains the geology behind Vasquez Rocks in a story published by the NASA Earth Observatory. The sedimentary layers at the Vasquez Rocks Natural Area in Southern California tilt at an average of 50 degrees, which is why the outcrops look like they are pointing at the sky. The rocks formed about 25 million years […]
Electronics Weekly News
ASML breaks ground on new campus
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:16 am
ASML has started building its second major industrial campus in the Brainport region of the Netherlands. The company celebrated the occasion with a groundbreaking ceremony at Brainport Industries Campus (BIC) […]
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Kioxia CEO dismisses idea of Hynix tie-up
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:13 am
Kioxia CEO Hiroo Ota (pictured) has dismissed talks of a tie-up with Hynix on NAND production. Last week Hynix chairman Chey Tae-Won said Hynix is looking for a site in […]
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Mistral has $3bn Series D
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:13 am
Mistral, the three year-old French AI company. has raised €3 billion in a Series D funding round at a valuation of more than €21 billion, the largest equity fundraising round […]
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PCBAA urges Pentagon to act on PCBs
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:12 am
Five years ago, the US Congress provided guidance to the Pentagon to create a plan to remove Chinese, Russian, Iranian, and North Korean content from critical defense supply chains: certainly […]
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Pulsiv appoints new CEO
Published: September 9, 2026, 5:11 am
Pulsiv, the UK power electronics specialist, today announced the appointment of Tim Joyce as CEO and a member of the Board of Directors. Tim succeeds outgoing CEO Darrel Kingham, who […]
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