EE Times News
Nova Scotia Bets on Microelectronics Integration, Not Chip Fabs
Published: November 13, 2026, 6:00 pm
Atlantic Canada’s coastal engineering cluster is turning specialized components and rugged hardware into exportable tools for subsea research, security, and resource markets.
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NewSpace-Grade NOR Flash: Right-Sized Reliability for Space Missions
Published: November 13, 2026, 3:00 pm
This paper first examines how total ionizing dose and single-event effects degrade NOR Flash. It focuses on the charge pumps, sense amplifiers, and control logic that often fail before the storage array does. It then presents a method for deriving radiation requirements from four mission inputs (orbit, lifetime, shielding, and risk tolerance) instead of applying […]
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electronica 2026: Chipmakers Move Up the Stack as Data Centers and Physical AI Take Center Stage
Published: November 13, 2026, 2:47 pm
Explore how electronica 2026 shows chipmakers shifting to AI platforms as data centers, edge AI, and robotics reshape power and silicon.
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How NovoGenius® MCU+ Devices Are Reshaping the Automotive Edge Node
Published: November 13, 2026, 10:41 am
NOVOSENSE NovoGenius MCU+ chips integrate analog, power, and drivers, adding intelligence to automotive edge nodes for motor control, sensing and lighting.
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Jensen Resigns Over Second Affair
Published: November 12, 2026, 8:48 pm
Nvidia CEO’s second affair scandal in a week prompted his resignation, and the board is now searching for a new leader for the company.
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Hackaday News
Loop Antennas for Transmitting
Published: November 15, 2026, 9:00 pm
Loop antennas are becoming increasingly popular as more radio fans find they can’t erect elaborate outdoor antennas. Like most things, of course, there are trade-offs. But, most often, loop antennas …read more
An Orbital Sanders Crash Course and the Threat of HAVS
Published: November 15, 2026, 6:00 pm
Most people know about orbital sanders, as the cousin of sheet sanders, with many people using them every day to make wood and other surfaces smooth. Yet if you have …read more
Printing Smooth Upper Surfaces with a Non-Planar Slicer
Published: November 15, 2026, 3:00 pm
One of the most tantalizing prospects for 3D printing has been non-planar printing, which promises smoother surfaces without a staircase pattern, reduced or eliminated support structures in some incarnations, and …read more
An MP3 Player, Implemented As A Factorio Blueprint
Published: November 15, 2026, 12:00 pm
Factorio is a factory simulation game that leads its players into many happy hours of building ever more complex factories, but it comes with a snag. Its built-in music is …read more
Reverse Engineer that USB Device in Style
Published: November 15, 2026, 9:00 am
Proprietary device drivers, dedicated applications, and their ilk are the bane of the open-source hacker. If only we could snoop on every device out there, recording the “secret” USB transactions …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Adafruit Weekly Editorial Round-Up: CircuitPython, LED Spirit Board & More!
Published: November 15, 2026, 8:00 pm
ADAFRUIT WEEKLY EDITORIAL ROUND-UP We’ve got so much happening here at Adafruit that it’s not always easy to keep up! Don’t fret, we’ve got you covered. Each week we’ll be posting a handy round-up of what we’ve been up to, ranging from learn guides to blog articles, videos, and more. BLOG ⌨️ CircuitPython 11.0.0-alpha.3 Released! […]
WM 0.10 is a window manager for DOS XT and 286
Published: November 15, 2026, 4:51 pm
theelf has posted WM 0.10 on the VCF Forums, a window manager for DOS that’s been years of personal work. It runs on a 286 with a VGA card at 640×480 in 16 colors. It also runs on an XT, though that part isn’t fully tested, since the development machine is a Harris 286-25. Memory […]
Underwater internet cables can help save endangered whales
Published: November 15, 2026, 4:00 pm
Andrew Paul, writing for Popular Science, covers work by Cornell University bioacoustics researcher Léa Bouffaut that turns deep sea fiber-optic cables into microphones for listening to whales. The method is called distributed acoustic sensing, or DAS. Laser pulses are sent down a telecom cable, and the returning light is checked for tiny changes caused by […]
Stenberg: 30 years of Internet transfers with curl
Published: November 14, 2026, 4:46 pm
corbet at LWN points to Daniel Stenberg’s post marking 30 years of the curl project. curl is the command line tool for transferring data with URLs, and libcurl is the library version that other software builds on. Stenberg puts libcurl at an estimated thirty billion installations. He’s clear that the figure is rough. Most projects […]
My $300 embroidery machine needed a subscription, so I built my own app
Published: November 14, 2026, 4:37 pm
Kathy Korevec built ZigZag, a free, open-source embroidery editor for Mac and Windows, after finding that her $300 Brother Skitch (PP1) machine wanted a subscription. It’s written in Rust and turns SVG artwork into stitches, then exports PES, DST, EXP, JEF or VP3 for most embroidery machines. Designs can also be sent straight to the […]
Electronics Weekly News
Picture of the Day: Lemo drives Sauber F1 to Electronica
Published: November 13, 2026, 5:59 pm
One of the visual highlights of the Messe Munchen during Electronica was the Lemo stand, featuring the red and white, and black, Alfa Romeo F1 race car.
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Jedec creates Subcommittee to address System Level Reliability Testing
Published: November 13, 2026, 3:17 pm
Jedec is inviting industry participation in the creation of a Subcommittee on System Level Reliability Testing (SLRT). The microelectronics standards body, to be precise is creating the Subcommittee JC-14.8. This […]
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Technologies Which Died
Published: November 13, 2026, 2:05 pm
30 years ago the world was debating the claims of WiMAX and HSDPA to be the future. ‘There was dissension in the ranks over the forthcoming mobile variant of the […]
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Electronica: Renesas adds Xplorer Developer Hub
Published: November 13, 2026, 1:58 pm
Inexpensive RA MCU board, expansion modules, application software and development tools are available via Xplorer Developer Hub Integrated with Renesas 365, the company’s electronics system development platform. Renesas launched the […]
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Electronica – The latest news roundup
Published: November 13, 2026, 11:12 am
Don’t miss the Electronics Weekly roundup of all our latest news from Electronica, the bi-annual event running from 10-13 November in Munich. Electronica is the world’s biggest electronics show, and Electronics […]
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