EE Times News
IBM Makes Quantum Cryogenics Modular, but Scaling Problems Remain
Published: August 19, 2026, 1:55 pm
IBM’s new cryogenic architecture tackles one obstacle to fault-tolerant quantum computing, while exposing wiring, control, interconnect, and reliability challenges.
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Running Local LLMs on the Arduino® UNO™ Q Board: a Practical Guide
Published: August 19, 2026, 1:00 pm
Learn how to run local LLMs on Arduino UNO Q — from model selection and quantization to memory constraints and real-world edge AI use cases.
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When Interoperability Becomes Infrastructure
Published: August 19, 2026, 7:43 am
As Matter matures, manufacturers face a new challenge: maintaining visibility into connected products after deployment.
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Marvell Targets AI Bottlenecks with Memory-Disaggregation Portfolio
Published: August 18, 2026, 2:39 pm
Marvell attacks AI’s memory choke point with SSD, CXL, and photonic fabrics to push data nearer compute.
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Why Standardized Interfaces Are Critical to Accelerating Humanoid Development
Published: August 18, 2026, 8:15 am
Humanoids won’t scale on AI hype alone; standardized MIPI interfaces can cut power, wiring, and cost.
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Hackaday News
Historical Hack: Henri Griffard’s Steam Injectors
Published: August 19, 2026, 5:00 pm
Here’s a historical hack for you: you have a big, rolling pressurized kettle, also known as a steam locomotive. It needs water to make up for the steam constantly chuff-chuff-chuffing …read more
Smarting Up a Doorbell with Zigbee
Published: August 19, 2026, 3:30 pm
Once upon a time a doorbell was little more than a button, a transformer, and a bell tucked somewhere around the house. These days, they get a little bit fancier. …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: The 1-Bit CPU That Ran Factories
Published: August 19, 2026, 2:02 pm
Powered machinery started the industrial revolution, and it was automation that kicked it up another notch in the 20th century. The ability for machines to make things by themselves spurred …read more
Simple DIY STM32 Oscilloscope Project
Published: August 19, 2026, 11:00 am
In part one of what is intended to be a series on developing an STM32-based oscilloscope, [BTTLab] demonstrates a how to use the built-in ADC of an STM32F207 MCU to …read more
Building Custom Backyard Solar Lights
Published: August 19, 2026, 8:00 am
In this modern age, if you want a truly swish garden that makes your friends sad when they visit, you need good lighting. [technocraftStudio] has been working on just such a …read more
Adafruit Blog News
Live TfL bus arrivals + weather departure board on a Pimoroni Badger 2350 e-ink badge
Published: August 19, 2026, 7:33 pm
A £30 badge on the wall by the door that tells you whether to run for the bus. Marcio Lopes has created a MicroPython app for the Pimoroni Badger 2350 e-ink badge that turns it into a tiny live departures board for a London bus stop, using Transport for London’s (TfL) open arrivals API, with […]
Google Chrome web browser for 64-bit Arm Linux and tested on Pi 5
Published: August 19, 2026, 7:07 pm
Google Chrome web browser is now available for 64-bit Arm Linux, and CNX quickly tested it with Raspberry Pi OS on a Raspberry Pi 5 2GB SBC. The open-source Google Chromium web browser has been available for Arm Linux for years, but it lacks some features such as account sync, out-of-the-box DRM support, and automatic […]
A true telnet BBS hosted on a Casio calculator
Published: August 19, 2026, 6:59 pm
Ian is seemingly doing the impossible: hosting a bulletin board service (BBS) on a Casio VX-4. About a eight weeks ago I had virtually no interest in calculators. Blank, dull, tedious-looking objects that remind me of long, arduous rainy afternoons in 1980’s/1990’s school maths classes. Fast forward to August 14th, 2026 and I now own […]
Unearthing a 31 year old Easter egg in Ecco the Dolphin
Published: August 19, 2026, 6:50 pm
The Rings of Saturn blog examines the PC version of Ecco the Dolphin. This game is adapted from the 1993 Sega CD version of Ecco, which is an enhanced version of the 1992 Sega Genesis original. There’s a full-featured debug mode cheat for the console editions. Among other things, it lets you skip stages and […]
RISC-V: They should have known better
Published: August 19, 2026, 6:37 pm
Dmitry Grinberg on Dmitry.GR is often asked to explain a distaste for RISC-V. A recent post lays it all out on the table. I am often asked to explain my distaste for RISC-V and I often find myself explaining it piecewise. The reactions are often of the form “you just do not understand the brilliance […]
Electronics Weekly News
UK Space Agency funds infrastructure projects using satellite comms
Published: August 19, 2026, 2:14 pm
The UK Space Agency is funding 16 projects through a £13 million government investment to improve the efficiency and use of satellite communications. It is looking to both boost connectivity […]
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Starlink Keeps Expanding
Published: August 19, 2026, 1:04 pm
As of August 2026, Starlink covered almost all of South America and had launched official service in more than 25 African countries. Starlink recently launched in countries Bolivia, the Democratic […]
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How thermal constraints are changing the semiconductor design process
Published: August 19, 2026, 10:00 am
Cooling is one of the clearest illustration of how semiconductor design teams need to work together. There is a running joke in engineering circles that the last time an electrical […]
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Photonic integrated circuits: the next frontier of advanced optoelectronic devices
Published: August 19, 2026, 10:00 am
Design, simulation and manufacturing advances continue to push photonic integrated circuits (PICs) to smaller sizes, which provide greater capabilities per chip, writes Liam Critchley. Advanced optics and photonics where light […]
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Microchip advances PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge with Rev 2.0
Published: August 19, 2026, 9:14 am
Microchip Technology has released Revision 2.0 of its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge. This is a smaller, production-ready board for sensor integration using NVIDIA HSB (Holoscan Sensor Bridge) technology. The […]
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