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New audio production technology enhances user experience of broadcast content

Digital audio files for broadcast are typically created to suit particular combinations of loudspeaker type and position. Performance may suffer if playback conditions do not match the intended combination. Nevertheless, ...

Oct 17, 2018

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Intel launch event ushers in 9th generation processors

Intel has announced its 9th generation of Core processors, namely the "9th Generation Core-X family," at its October 8 launch event.

Oct 09, 2018

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AMD steps up its Ryzen game with 45W chips

Ryzen and shine. AMD has released new laptop chips and expect their glitter to come through in high performance laptops. Namely, AMD has listed Ryzen 7 2800H and Ryzen 5 2600H on its website, said Tom's Hardware.

Sep 20, 2018 weblog

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Quantum Cloud Services is entering arena with big prize offer

Quantum computers newsmaker Rigetti Computing has announced Quantum Cloud Services and, along with that, a $1 million contest prize for a conclusive demonstration of quantum advantage.

Sep 10, 2018 weblog

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Qualcomm is packaging up 5G phones with antenna modules announcement

Qualcomm Technologies on Monday unveiled "the world's first fully-integrated 5G NR millimeter wave (mmWave) and sub-6 GHz RF modules for smartphones and other mobile devices." Translation: The 5G party is for real and will ...

Jul 24, 2018 weblog

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Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation

MIT researchers have developed the first molecular clock on a chip, which uses the constant, measurable rotation of molecules—when exposed to a certain frequency of electromagnetic radiation—to keep time. The chip could ...

Jul 16, 2018

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Intel buzz is all about display on power diet, battery life boost

Intel caused quite a stir over an announcement this month at Computex in Taipei. They announced battery-boosting technology. Longer message made short, Intel claims it can cut display battery use in half with its new tech.

Jun 08, 2018

Standard announced for braille displays across different operating systems and hardware

A new standard for braille displays has come on the scene, and it is backed by the giants in tech.

Jun 04, 2018 weblog

Arm's Cortex-A76 set to deliver performance uplifts with good battery life

British semiconductor IP company Arm is making news for in the laptop marketplace. Arm has unveiled its Cortex-A76 CPU design. Arm licenses chip designs and the instruction set that the chips use, said Peter Bright in Ars ...

Jun 03, 2018 weblog

Qualcomm platform poised for good times in standalone extended reality

You have heard much about virtual reality, and not always with a rainbow attached. (Nicole Kobie in Alphr reminded readers that "VR headsets have improved and prices have fallen. So why aren't they selling? Stewart points ...

May 31, 2018 weblog

Wear OS smartwatches to get new Qualcomm chip boosts

As Android watchers know, the nomenclature Android Wear for a smartwatch platform was changed. Now it is Wear OS. More platform-agnostic. Less static from those who flinch at the very sound of the word "Android."

May 11, 2018 weblog

IBM talks about world's smallest computer smaller than grain of salt

World's best. World's fastest. World's smartest. Superlatives are the stuff of which news headlines are made. IBM, taking center stage at its Think 2018 conference in Las Vegas, scores big in superlatives this week in unveiling ...

Mar 21, 2018 weblog

Arm's Project Trillium announcement looks at processors for AI

Arm on Tuesday announced its new direction in "the industry's most scalable, versatile ML compute platform." They are talking up their new platform called Project Trillium. The project involves a new Machine Learning (ML) ...

Feb 15, 2018 weblog

Makers can enjoy depth sensing capabilities via Intel cameras

Intel has two new depth cameras creating a buzz, the new D415 and D435, from their Intel RealSense product family. This is in the D400 Series.

Jan 23, 2018 weblog

Ten year runtime from coin cell battery is CES talking point in smart home chip

Ahead of CES in Las Vegas, it had not been difficult to predict that components and gadgets in the smart home category would be part of the mix.

Jan 10, 2018 weblog

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TITAN V: Now NVIDIA is talking deep-learning horsepower

(Tech Xplore)—'Desktop GPU' is a phrase that could take scientific researchers places, with NVIDIA in the frontlines of their newcomer, TITAN V. This is a graphics card created for the PC.

Dec 10, 2017 weblog

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System with thousands of Raspberry Pi nodes brings affordable testbed to supercomputing system

A quest to help the systems software community work on very large supercomputers without having to actually test on them has spawned an affordable, scalable system using thousands of inexpensive Raspberry Pi nodes. It brings ...

Nov 28, 2017

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Hardware news

New audio production technology enhances user experience of broadcast content

Intel launch event ushers in 9th generation processors

AMD steps up its Ryzen game with 45W chips

Quantum Cloud Services is entering arena with big prize offer

Qualcomm is packaging up 5G phones with antenna modules announcement

Molecular clock could greatly improve smartphone navigation

Intel buzz is all about display on power diet, battery life boost

Researchers demonstrate 120-kilowatt wireless charging for vehicles

A new strategy to correct imperfections in occupancy grid maps

How your little email server puts you in charge

Clapping Music app reveals that changing rhythm isn't so easy

SLAP: Simultaneous Localization and Planning for autonomous robots

Carbon fiber can store energy in the body of a vehicle

Researchers put forward a roadmap for quantum internet development

3D-printed supercapacitor electrode breaks records in lab tests

Researchers show what can happen when a drone collides with an airplane

Neural network that securely finds potential drugs could encourage large-scale pooling of sensitive data

Qualcomm unwraps chipsets, talks up 60GHz WiFi solutions

MELT 3-D printer designed for use in microgravity

'DAWG' system aims to prevent attacks made possible by Meltdown and Spectre

First proof of quantum computer advantage

A new method to instill curiosity in reinforcement learning agents

Google researchers see progress in tool to detect breast cancer spread

Smell and stress sensors a smash at Tokyo tech fair

Brain-inspired algorithm helps AI systems multitask and remember

3D-printed lithium-ion batteries

Making cement sustainable

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