Electronics Design

Does this make sense? NREL researchers build world's fastest, low cost, siliconcarbide power module

From: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/260118233604.htm This tiny power module could change how the world...

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FYI: QNAP TS-1679U-RP

I've been discarding NAS appliances in favor of "rolling my own" (soas not to be reliant on closed software and proprie...

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NIST Scientists Create ‘Any Wavelength’ Lasers in Tiny Circuits for Light

The breakthrough was the engineering of this hitherto impossible photonic chip, but this miracle tantalum pentoxide " t...

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Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers

From: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260417085404.htmCommon cleaning sponge found to release trillions o...

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California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future

This is not the only work-in-progress, several others have attained very impressive demonstrations of the possibilities...

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Allbirds

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/allbirds-bird-stock-shoes-ai.html John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Design Center Lu...

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*Business* "server room" comms cabling

Same question as "Data Center Comms Cabling" but with the more explicit issue that the servers within the racks in the...

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Data Center Comms Cabling

How do the network cables transition into/outof individual equipment racks in data centers? Presumably, through the flo...

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AI’s Math Tricks Don’t Work for Scientific Computing - Low-precision number formats don’t suit many simulations

This is a new kind of floating-point number, likely good for AI, but lots of other uses will turn up. From IEEE Spectru...

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Comparing algorithm costs

I'm trying to sort out the "nominal" cost of using AVL trees to store a "dictionary". It's relatively easy to sort out...

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CNET FBI Wi-Fi Router Hacked List: 5 Steps to Keep Your Router Safe Now

. TP-Link is the center of attention. Joe

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NAND equivalent for elementary functions paper

"A single two-input gate suffices for all of Boolean logic in digital hardware. No comparable primitive has been known...

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wow

https://www.eetimes.com/intel-enters-pact-with-tesla-and-spacex-for-terafab/ John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Canyon Desig...

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Fusion

https://inertia.com/ That's interesting, scaling up the NIF idea to commercial levels. John Larkin Highland Tech Glen Ca...

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CoB LED filament analysis

Recent thread topic transitioned to a tentative opinion on a work-in- progress webpage: Radiography imparts interesting...

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