DIY archivists push budget Nikons to 902,000 clicks to save 1,800 rare books — team trains neural net on Photoshop edits to process 526,000 scans
Around 2015, a trio of Pakistani friends took it upon themselves to digitize a large number of out-of-print books in Urdu, many of them lithographs — they call it the Ibteda Digital Library.…
They did it for the love of the language, with no budget or support, b…
However, eventually one of the trio came up with a finely-tuned machin…
The project certainly stands in contrast to the current practice of la…
Adata Urban Tapsafe 2TB review: Solid-state storage you unlock with your phone
Perhaps as a result of AI hyperscaler demand soaking up all the cutting-edge flash, external storage makers in recent months have seemed to focus less on speed and more on adding unique and helpful features.…
We saw this with Sharge's Disk Pro and its built-in hub, Orico's Book …
Adata seems to be playing a similar game with its latest drive, the Ur…
The Urban Tapsafe external SSD is quite compact, about the size of a l…
Poor liquid metal application almost destroys Asus Zephyrus M16 laptop, eats through the processor lid — paste replacement triples framerates, drops temps, and eliminates hard crashes
Asus has been putting liquid metal on mobile dies used in its laptops for a few years at this point.…
Liquid metal as a TIM has its place, but it's a highly inconsistent so…
Such was the case with u/nicknickmeetnick, whose Zephyrus M16 gaming l…
Turns out, the instability came from an issue born from the factory — …
Modders solder power cables directly to RTX 5090 PCB to eliminate notorious melting 16-pin connector — bare-board Galax HOF card pulls 600W under chiller cooling
Ever since the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 launched (and the RTX 4090 before it), reports of the card burning down have been commonplace in the community.…
The culprit behind the GPU's incendiary nature is the 16-pin power con…
so what if we got rid of it in the first place?
That's what Brazilian YouTuber TecLab did in their latest experiment —…
US military uses high-energy lasers to shoot down three Mexican cartel drones over the southern border — narcos suspected of using UAVs for surveillance and reconnaissance to support illegal activitie
The U.S.military shot down three drones that were suspected of operating for Mexican cartels earlier this week.…
According to CBS News, the uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) were destro…
Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) between Tuesday evening and Wednesday mo…
"Cartel networks are increasingly employing unmanned aircraft systems …
Molecular Dynamics Study Explains Aluminum Dopant Activation In 4H-SiC (TU Wien, Silvaco)
Researchers from TU Wien and Silvaco Europe published a technical paper titled “The influence of implantation conditions on dopant activation in Al-implanted 4H-SiC: A MD study applying an Al potential fitted to DFT barriers.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “The non-monotonic dependence of Al dopant activat…
We present a molecular dynamics (MD) study of Al implantation in 4H-Si…
5 × 1014 cm−2, to describe how implantation temperature and dose gover…
Cycle-Level Simulator for Distributed GPUs For AI Workloads (Purdue)
Researchers from Purdue University published a technical paper titled “Architecting the Next Generation of Asynchronous, Distributed GPUs for the AI Era.…
” Abstract Excerpt: The paper presents a “cycle-level simulation frame…
It also reports validation against physical silicon, including a “99% …
Intrinsic Polarization Superjunctions Boost GaN-On-Silicon Power Devices (EPFL)
Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) published a technical paper titled “Intrinsic polarization superjunctions in III-nitride heterostructures for efficient power electronics.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “III-nitride semiconductors combine a wide bandgap…
Their lateral architecture also enables monolithic integration on cost…
However, electric-field crowding, as well as surface and buffer trappi…
M3D 6T SRAM With BEOL Pass-Gates at 2nm (Georgia Tech, Synopsys)
Researchers from Georgia Institute of Technology and Synopsys published a technical paper titled “A Process-Aware Hybrid Si/IGO Monolithic-3D 6T SRAM with BEOL Pass-Gates for the 2nm Node.…
” Abstract Excerpt: The paper proposes “a monolithic-3D (M3D) 6T SRAM …
It also reports that the resulting cell “achieves a 25% footprint redu…
Hybrid HBM-HBF Architecture in LLM Inference (University of Oxford)
Researchers at the University of Oxford published a technical paper titled “Hardware-Managed Heterogeneous High-Bandwidth Memory and Flash in LLM Inference Systems.…
Researchers at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Stanford University published a technical paper titled “Intracavity Laser Wavelength Tuning by a Programmable Forward-Only Silicon Photonics Interferometer Mesh.…
” Abstract Excerpt: “We exploit a recently proposed concept for a prog…
This filter integrates forward-only interferometer meshes together wit…
Predicting Post-Route PPA from Macro and Standard-Cell Placements (U. of Alberta)
Researchers from University of Alberta published a technical paper titled “PPAPlace: Differentiable Cross-Stage Objectives for Chip Placement Optimization.…
” Abstract: “Macro placement significantly affects a chip’s post-route…
Most placement methods optimize half-perimeter wirelength (HPWL) as th…
However, recent benchmarking shows a near-zero correlation between HPW…
One day in 1982, Joseph “Rod” Canion and two colleagues from Texas Instruments sat down at the House of Pies in Houston and used a napkin to sketch out what would become Compaq’s portable PC.…
In 1996, Felix Zandman, founder of Vishay Intertechnology, dined at Hu…
, grabbed a napkin and drafted a design for a power metal strip resist…
Now that wispy piece of paper resides at the Smithsonian’s National Mu…
California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law — software distributed under the GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses are exempt
California’s legislature has passed Assembly Bill 1856, exempting open-source operating systems from the State’s Digital Age Assurance Act months before the law is due to take effect on January 1, 2027.…
The Senate amended the Bill on August 21 before passing it on the 26th…
The amendment ends almost a year of uncertainty surrounding whether Li…
AB 1856 has now been sent to Governor Gavin Newsom, who signed the ori…
Magnetic core memory USB drive transfers files in sneakernet first — text and image files get moved between PCs via hugely constrained archaic memory tech
A homebrew dinner-plate-sized magnetic core memory USB storage device has been used to transfer a text file from one PC to another for the first time.…
In what is “maybe the world’s first” [machine translation] Japanese re…
We covered this space science researcher’s earlier efforts to rekindle…
Startup raises $7 million to build backpack-portable 8.8-ounce drone interceptors — Mara claims 20x cost advantage over other interceptors, priced one-for-one against attack drones
San Francisco defense startup Mara has secured $7 million in a pre-seed round to produce what it calls Spike, a portable counter-drone system housed inside a backpack.…
The complete system costs $30,000 to $100,000, depending on the number…
8 ounces) autonomous interceptors are designed to cost no more than th…
Those quadcopters, which carry munitions capable of destroying armored…
Grand Theft Auto 6 will run at only 30 FPS on consoles at launch, no performance mode promised — even the souped-up PS5 Pro might not get 60 FPS support
It's almost hard to believe that Grand Theft Auto VI is finally almost here after years of waiting.…
Even more surreal was seeing the first official gameplay reveal happen…
YouTuber Davy Jones was invited by Rockstar North for a three-hour gam…
Head of Development at Rockstar North, Rob Nelson, played the game for…
Site provides instructions to get up to $175 back for your pre-installed Windows 11 license — new portal provides legal forms, but warns buyers not to wipe storage first
The majority of PCs are sold with Windows 11 licensed, paid-for, and pre-installed.…
This fact irks many folks, especially Linux aficionados who intend to …
The Refund4Freedom site was put together by the Italian Linux Society …
“Consumers should be able to buy laptops without any specific operatin…