(Image credit: Qualcomm) Earlier this month Qualcomm unveiled the Snapdragon 845 premium mobile CPU, which is destined to power future flagship smartphones. The 10nm chip is impressive, to say the least, and features an octo-core Qualcomm Kryo 3...
Samsung San Jose headquarters. (Image credit Samsung) AI has crept into nearly every industry over the last few years- manufacturing, retail/commerce, medical, tech, to name just a few. Looking to keep pace with everyone else, Samsung has recen...
SLAC’s accelerator on a chip could match the power of conventional accelerators in a tabletop package. (Image credit SLAC) When it comes to particle accelerators, the first image that comes to mind is Cern’s Large Hedron Collider, which just ha...
Meet AT&T’s new drone Flying COW, which is helping to provide temporary connectivity to people in Puerto Rico. AT&T’s new drone the Flying COW (Photo from AT&T) It’s always heartening when major events spur innovation. Or maybe it’s ...
DeepMind’s AlphaGo Zero can now beat the best Go players without any training or help from human players. This AI program is on top of its game. (Photo from DeepMind) Google’s AlphaGo turned heads last years when the DeepMind AI beat Go world ch...
The Kano Computer Complete Kit is a “laptop” kids build along with learning how to program popular games. Kano gives you everything you need to start programming. (Photo via Kano) Adding to the saturated market of devices, games, and sites devot...
A team of faculty members and students at the University of Washington have developed the first phone that can operate without a battery to power its functions. The phone is made with commercially available components on a printed circuit board. (Pho...
Google creates a neural network that’s capable of multitasking called Multimodal. A diagram of how Google’s new neural network works (Photo via Google) My immediate thought… Neural Network Raspberry Pi? Multitasking is something we do every...
By Christine Young, Blogger, Maxim Integrated From Yahoo and LinkedIn to the Internal Revenue Service, the Democratic National Committee, and everyday objects like dolls and DVRs, it seems that almost nothing is safe from hacking. Indeed, ...
Verizon and Korea Telecom demoed the first ever hologram call using their 5G networks. (Image credit Korea Telecom) Earlier this month, Verizon and Korea Telecom tested the first international hologram-based video call over their respective 5G ...
In it for the G- AT&T buys Straight Path for the increase in wave spectrum it needs to unleash 5G. (Image credit AT&T) AT&T announced recently that it’s buying out Straight Path Communications to the tune of $1.6-billion in stocks t...
Researchers from MIT and Chicago making denser chips with wires that partially build themselves. Faster technology requires better and faster microchips (Image via MIT) As technology, such as computers, get faster and better, they require microc...
SIG says the new spec can deliver robust and reliable IoT connections, making full-home and outdoor use a lot easier to implement. Almost every new mobile device features it but most of us really never think about it until there becomes a connec...
Researchers from IBM and ETH Zurich have developed a liquid battery that uses prior “flow” technology and applies it to small computer chips. Computer chips can be stacked with alternating layers of chips and flow batteries that would both power and ...
Russian artist Vtol used his own blood as a power source for his latest electric sound exhibit. Vtol draws his blood onstage to help power his creation (photograph via Vtol) Blood is a life source and important for our daily functions, but did y...
A pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have found a way to code information using nature’s storage system: DNA. Yaniv Erlich and Dina Zielinski: the duo that worked on the DNA data storage technology. (im...
Hasbro introduces new Disney doll that allows you to program her dance routines with companion app. Parents will be glad to know that this doll can sing, dance, and say over 100 phrases (Photo via Hasbro) With a live-action remake of the Disney ...
Researchers from the University of Maryland and IBM have pitted their quantum computers against each other to determine which is the superior technology. (image) An IBM Quantum Computer Chip. (via MIT Technology Review) Quantum physics refers ...
The Freestyle uses a black LCD screen, stylus, and knobs that create stamps for the updated version. The new Etch-a-Sketch dubbed Freestyle (via Spin Master) My immediate reaction to this toy was, "how could I do this with a Raspberry Pi?" ...
Researchers at Eindhoven University used a DNA computer to create a pill that looks at how sick you are and doles out the proper amount of medicine. An illustration of what the “smart” pill would look like. (via Eindhoven University) When you’re...
Psychometric profiling mines big data from social media platforms to create advertising tailored to the personality traits of select people. A screenshot of Cambridge Analytica’s Data Dashboard tool, which provides demographic data based on the OCEAN...
Tokyo’s 2020 Olympics committee wants the public to donate old gadgets to extract metals for them and create medals for the 2020 games. The medals for the upcoming Olympic Games will be made out of old gadgets. (Photo via Tokyo 2020 Olympics) To...
Standford and DOE researchers have created super-thin wires just three atoms wide using diamonds and assembling them Lego-style. (via Standford) Researchers from Stanford University and the Department of Energy (DOE) have developed a way to use...
The lighting industry has been changed forever by LEDs, and now they could become even cheaper and more efficient with the incorporation of perovskites. New LED is made with crystalline substances known as perovskites. (Photo via Sameer A. Khan/Fotob...
Hello friends, we have designed many Proteus Libraries on our blog The Engineering Projects which are not yet developed and we are really very proud that we are the first designers for these Proteus Libraries. I am gonna share all those Proteus Libra...
