Collaborate Disseminate
It connects people, data, and money, Bill Gates wrote this week on his personal blog. But digital public infrastructure is also “revolutionizing the way entire nations serve their people, respond to crises, and grow their economies” — and the Gat… Continue reading Bill Gates Applauds Open Source Tools for ‘Digital Public Infrastructure’
[Julian] knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We routinely ignore things like wire resistance and source resistance …read more Continue reading Ideal Diodes and How to Build Them
A California oil refinery that produces 8% of the state’s gasoline is shutting down late next year — a decision the Los Angeles Times says is “driven by climate change, the transition to electric vehicles and demands for cleaner air.”
“There’s … Continue reading What Happens When a California Oil Refinery Shuts Down?
Pretty much every modern car has some driver assistance feature, such as lane departure and blind-spot warnings, or adaptive cruise control. They’re all pretty cool, and they all depend on …read more Continue reading Fundamentals of FMCW Radar Help You Understand Your Car’s Point of View
Tom’s Hardware reports on some interesting hardware history being shared on X.com:
AMD engineer Phil Park identified a curious nugget of PC architectural history from, of all places, a year-old Quora answer posted by former Intel engineer [and Pen… Continue reading Chip Designers Recall the Big AMD-Intel Battle Over x86-64 Support
If you are younger than a certain age, RLL probably doesn’t mean much to you. Old consumer-grade hard drives used MFM (modified frequency modulation like a floppy disk uses) and …read more Continue reading Inside the RLL Hard Drive Protocol
The Miami Herald reports:
Cuba’s electrical grid shut down again early Saturday, leaving the island without electricity after authorities tried but failed to restore power following an earlier nationwide blackout on Friday. The island’s Electric Union … Continue reading After Second Power Outage, 10 Million Cubans Endure Saturday Afternoon Blackout
In the last several days, headlines have been plastered all over the internet regarding Chinese researchers using D-Wave quantum computers to hack RSA, AES, and “military-grade encryption.” This is true and not true.Continue ReadingCategory: Quantum Co… Continue reading No, Chinese quantum computers haven’t hacked military-grade encryption
Unfortunately it’s a little bit more involved than downloading an app. Continue reading You can turn your old Android phone into a ham radio – here’s how
An anonymous readed shared this report from CNN:
[U.S. army boats] are poorly maintained and largely unprepared to meet the military’s growing mission in the Pacific, a new government oversight report said this week. The Government Accountability Off… Continue reading US Army Faces ‘Wide-Ranging’ Issues with Its Boats, Considers Replacing Them with Autonomous Vessels