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AI Hardware’s Next Frontier Is Integration
Published: August 11, 2026, 9:25 am
The LID World Summit 2026 showed why AI progress now depends on system-level advances in memory, packaging, photonics, and power.
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Why AI Adoption in Materials R&D Depends More on People Than Technology
Published: August 10, 2026, 9:21 pm
The technology works. The organization has to catch up.
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U.S. Startup Fields Quantum Sensors to Reduce Reliance on GPS
Published: August 10, 2026, 1:14 pm
GPS spoofing is a sitting duck; Dirac’s quantum sensors aim to navigate air, sea, and tunnels without satellites.
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Leading-edge AI IC designs demand comprehensive HAV methodologies
Published: August 10, 2026, 1:00 pm
Learn how comprehensive hardware-assisted verification helps AI SoC teams accelerate RTL, software development and system validation.
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Can AI Command Earth-to-Orbit Operations?
Published: August 10, 2026, 8:00 am
The aerospace and defense sector is facing a confluence of geopolitical instability, rapid technological advances, evolving security requirements, and complex global supply chains.
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Hackaday News
The Code The British Government Doesn’t Want You To See (Any More)
Published: August 11, 2026, 8:00 am
Governments like to do things which at least sound open and honest. It makes them look like Thoroughly Good Eggs, when maybe the truth might be a little murkier. They …read more
A Keyboard with No Keys
Published: August 11, 2026, 5:00 am
For as capable as smartphone hardware is, the software running on them can be especially restrictive and cumbersome. Unlike a single-board computer with GPIO running a standard Linux operating system …read more
The PiShot Is Ready For Your Snaps
Published: August 11, 2026, 2:00 am
The formula for a Raspberry Pi camera is by now a straightforward one: take a Pi and camera module, add a display, buttons, and battery, and you’re done. This doesn’t …read more
Cotton-Fiberglass Composite Makes Lightweight RV Countertops
Published: August 10, 2026, 11:00 pm
You’ve seen fiber-reinforced-plastic before, no doubt, but perhaps never quite like in this video by [Whitburn Studio]: it’s still got the usual resin, but instead of glass or carbon fibers, …read more
Building a bicycle dropper seat post
Published: August 10, 2026, 8:00 pm
A recent addition to mountain bikes is the dropper seat post. This invention is in the vein of office swivel chairs, allowing the seat height to be adjusted with a …read more
Adafruit Blog News
ICYMI Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter: MicroPython for the bao, CircuitPython Day Soon, Coldcard and More!
Published: August 10, 2026, 9:07 pm
If you missed this week’s Python on Microcontrollers Newsletter, here is the ICYMI (in case you missed it) version. To never miss another issue, subscribe now! – You’ll get a terrific newsletter each Monday (which is out before this post). 12,386 subscribers worldwide! The next newsletter goes out Monday morning and subscribing is the best way to keep […]
ProvenMetal makes PCBs fast
Published: August 10, 2026, 8:36 pm
ProvenMetal claim is they makes printed circuit boards (PCB) fast. Speed is our middle name. You ship hardware on a clock. 4 weeks ain’t cuttin it. We do it better. Boards back in as few as five days, or slower and cheaper when the schedule allows. You pick. Fast, and we can prove it. We […]
ChipTycoon: watch how chips are made, SimCity style
Published: August 10, 2026, 8:26 pm
ChipTycoon is a working chip factory laid out as a theme park, created by Laurentiu Raducu. A cart carries one silicon wafer along the roads and stops at each of the twenty buildings that turn ordinary sand into a computer chip. The cargo on the cart is the wafer itself, and it visibly changes at […]
Color Sensing Music Player #AdafruitLearningSystem
Published: August 10, 2026, 8:00 pm
Build a fun and playful 3D printed MP3 player with CircuitPython and an RP2040 PropMaker Feather! It’s a boombox for young makers, but with a twist: use a color sensor to detect a LEGO DUPLO brick and play a song, sound effect, or audio clip. Each colored brick plays a different audio file. You can […]
How to make a Nintendo 64 game in 2026
Published: August 10, 2026, 7:55 pm
Two years ago, Dominic Szablewski was Porting his JavaScript Game Engine to C for No Reason. He have since found a reason: making a new N64 game. The result is Xibalba 64 – a Wolfenstein 3D-like FPS. Modretro agreed to publish the game as a physical launch title for their M64 (a modern N64 clone), […]
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Published: August 11, 2026, 8:15 am
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Waymo extends driverless lead
Published: August 11, 2026, 5:15 am
Waymo, the Alphabet driverless car unit, appears to be extending its lead in deploying the technology. Waymo has nearly 4,000 driverless cars on the road – up from about 700 […]
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NEC’s new department staffed only by AI agents
Published: August 11, 2026, 5:13 am
On August 1st NEC opened a new department called the “Corporate AI & Workforce Division” staffed solely by AI agents. The humanless department has 17 employees each with their own […]
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Smartphone margin squeeze
Published: August 11, 2026, 5:12 am
Memory will account for 34% of the BoM for an iPhone18, estimates TrendForce, compared to only 10% for last year’s iPhone 17. In H127 it will account for 42% of […]
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Anglia signs Silanna
Published: August 11, 2026, 5:04 am
Anglia Components has signed a pan-European franchise agreement with Silanna, makers of laser driver products and configurable ADCs that are pin-for-pin compatible with industry standard parts from major analogue IC […]
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