Dartmouth professor honored for developing ‘camera-on-a-chip’ that powers smartphones - NH Business Review
As we close out Q2 and review the year so far, there are several interesting dynamics at play. Dartmouth professor honored for developing ‘camera-on-a-chip’ that powers smartphones Eric Fossum co-invented technology…
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Hot Rod Designer Chip Foose Made This John Deere Tractor Look Like an Old Race Car
Can tools be art? Opinions on that question certainly vary, but I believe so. Hot rod designer Chip Foose apparently agrees, seeing as he took this 1970 John Deere 4020 tractor and restyled it to look more like a…
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Taiwan indicts ex-TSMC manager for allegedly stealing chip secrets for China — first case of its kind links managers to Chinese semiconductor materials analysis company
Taiwanese prosecutors indicted a former TSMC deputy manager on Monday for allegedly copying 21 confidential documents, some covering technologies Taiwan designates as national core technologies, intending to use them in…
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Security engineer ports password cracker hashcat to Gameboy Advance — 16.8 MHz chip can perform a meager 727 hashes a second, 30 million times slower than a modern rig
In the modern age, password cracking is an activity that generally begets quite powerful hardware, usually high-powered GPUs.
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China completes the world's first commercial brain-chip implant, beating Elon Musk's Neuralink to market with the coin-sized NEO device
There's been a notable first for brain-computer interfacesA commercially-sold BCI has been implanted for the first timeIt comes from Chinese company Neuracle Medical Technology There's been a notable advancement in the…
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'This computer works almost like a guitar': Fingernail-sized quantum chip uses vibrations to store data
ETH Zurich quantum chip sees superconducting qubit act as CPU and the vibrational modes of a fingernail-width acoustic resonator serve as quantum RAMThe approach borrows from classical computer architecture as it…
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This CPU uses solar power to 'run computations' without the need for batteries
Penn State researchers built a monolithic 3D chip that runs entirely off ambient light without leveraging a batteryThe chip stacks silicon photovoltaics, MoS₂/WSe₂ complementary logic, and graphene chemical sensors…
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