EE Times News
How AI Is Reshaping the Global Semiconductor Patent Landscape
Published: September 1, 2026, 4:32 pm
AI is turning chip patents into a geopolitical battle for dominance, from Nvidia’s CUDA moat to China’s filing surge.
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Opportunity Charging Enabled by Fast Charging MultiVoltage Batteries
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:56 pm
While opportunity charging is a practice applicable to both Lead Acidand Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries for motive power systems, fast charging is a key differentiator for Lithium-ion batteries. Because the chemistry allows fast charging without damaging cycle life, Li-ion multivoltge batteries can be charged opportunistically during breaks and don’t require battery swaps. Learn about best practices […]
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The Future of Cable Testing: Why Intelligent Automation is Replacing Manual Validation
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:39 pm
This whitepaper examines the limitations of manual cable validation processes and explores how automated testing strategies help address common engineering and manufacturing pain points. Topics include improving test repeatability, reducing operator-dependent variability, minimizing setup time, streamlining documentation, and enhancing production scalability. The paper also reviews the role of intelligent switching, automated test sequencing, digital recordkeeping, […]
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The Link Budget Is Decided at the Connector
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:27 pm
Scale-up optics will be decided by the link budget. The largest recoverable losses sit at the connector and inside the silicon photonics platform.
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From Silos to Systems, from Data to Insight : Unlocking Organizational Knowledge and Winning in the AI Era with Keysight SOS Enterprise
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
The white paper introduces Keysight SOS Enterprise as an AI-ready engineering data and IP management platform designed to help semiconductor and electronics companies centrally manage, govern, and secure design data across global teams. It provides version control, IP traceability, role-based access, and audit-ready governance to ensure design integrity, improve reuse, reduce risk, and enable advanced […]
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Hackaday News
Reactive Heat and Wind Come to VR, Thanks to Smart Plugs
Published: September 1, 2026, 6:30 pm
Want to feel the heat of nearby fire, explosions, or radiation? Or even just the gentle warmth and breeze of a sunny day in the wasteland? If you said yes, …read more
Hackaday Europe 2026: Playstation 4 to Psychometer
Published: September 1, 2026, 5:02 pm
There are many ways to detect stress in an individual. You can use self-reporting checklists, you could try and measure various vital signs like respiratory rate and pulse and infer …read more
It’s Teletext, But On The Radio
Published: September 1, 2026, 3:30 pm
Old-school teletext with its pixelated text and block graphics may now be largely a thing of the past, but that doesn’t mean it’s without enthusiasts or there’s no more life …read more
PETG: the PLA Filament Alternative that Just Works
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:00 pm
A typical response to the previous article on why PLA filament is so darn brittle. This has led some people to not use PLA filament at all, while others promote …read more
Crowdsourcing An Investigation Into Coil Whine
Published: September 1, 2026, 11:00 am
If you’ve heard the high-pitched whine or buzz from an electronic device when a current-carrying inductor is vibrating, you’ll know how unpleasant it can be. It’s common in all kinds …read more
Adafruit Blog News
A Spotify Connect client for headless systems
Published: September 1, 2026, 6:31 pm
Raspotify is a Debian package from dtcooper, published on GitHub, that turns a headless Linux box into a Spotify Connect target. It wraps the librespot library by Paul Lietar and others as a systemd daemon. It targets Debian Stable, currently Debian 13 “Trixie”, and other Debian based systems. A premium Spotify account is required. The […]
JP’s Product Pick of the Week — New Earlier Time!! 3pm Eastern TODAY 9/1/26 and Beyond! @adafruit #adafruit #newproductpick
Published: September 1, 2026, 6:27 pm
Product Picks come earlier now! One hour earlier in fact. Come on by for JP’s Product Pick of The Week ! A new product pick will be revealed. The show airs at 3pm ET / 12pm PT We’re making changes to some show schedules at Adafruit, so this will be the new time slot for […]
Boot a virtual iPhone on a Mac
Published: September 1, 2026, 6:19 pm
Lakr233 has published vphone-cli, a command line tool that boots a virtual iPhone on a Mac using Apple’s Virtualization.framework and the Private Cloud Compute research VM infrastructure. A single command, vphone-cli vm create, runs the whole pipeline: download, patch, DFU restore, custom firmware install, and first boot. The individual stages can also be run by […]
Shipping Alert: Labor Day 2026 Monday, September 7
Published: September 1, 2026, 5:56 pm
Monday, September 7, is Labor Day. This is a federal Holiday as well as a holiday for the Adafruit team. While some of the team will be shipping orders there will be no carrier pickups. Expedited orders placed after 11am EST Friday, September 4, will not go out until Tuesday, September 2. Please allow extra […]
The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer
Published: September 1, 2026, 4:27 pm
Spacelab was a European built laboratory module that flew in the Space Shuttle’s cargo bay. It carried three French made Mitra 125 MS minicomputers, not the Shuttle’s IBM machines. A teardown by Ken Shirriff posted at righto.com looks at the memory in one of those computers: 128 kilobytes of magnetic core, built in 1980. The […]
Electronics Weekly News
Pixel Art Robot draws one flipped squisk at a time
Published: September 1, 2026, 4:03 pm
There's so much to learn. In my case, what exactly is a flip-squisk?! I learnt this one when reading about an Arduino-based flip-squisk display, to be precise.
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SpaceWERX backs 11 companies for space innovation
Published: September 1, 2026, 2:32 pm
SpaceWERX, the U.S. Air Force space technology accelerator programme, will be investing in another 11 companies to develop innovative space technologies. Specifically, the funding will be via its Program Year […]
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Tendeg showcases NewTen two-axis steerable reflector antenna
Published: September 1, 2026, 1:37 pm
Tendeg, the antenna specialist, has released NewTEN, its two-axis steerable reflector antenna for small spacecraft. It was showcased at the 40th Annual Small Satellite Conference in Salt Lake City. Reflector […]
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To Pay Or Not To Pay
Published: September 1, 2026, 1:10 pm
Much of the AI economy still looks suspiciously circular. Hyperscalers are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI data center using Nvidia’s chips. Nvidia partially invests its billions […]
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