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There has been for several years talking that nanotube transistors are coming to use and they can be better than traditional transistors made of silicon. I see this news as a major milestone. IEEE Spectrum writes: https://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/processors/modern-microprocessor-built-using-carbon-nanotubes Engineers at MIT and Analog Devices have created the first fully-programmable 16-bit carbon nanotube microprocessor RV16X-NANO. It’s the →

This is a teardown of an Omron M6 Comfort blood pressure monitor. This was several years old model (newer looks different). This teardown was done because this was no longer reliable – the display was missing most of graphics. Let’s open it. Open two screws and use pry tool to open plastic case. Let’s go →

https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/in-comics-linux-celebrates-28th-birthday/ On 26 August 1991, Linus Torvalds announced hobby project that was supposed to better than Minix operating systems. Celebrate Linux’s birthday by sharing comics in pop culture that made it even more popular. →

http://smbc-comics.com/comic/gan   →

https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/ With a big injection of open source spirit from its acquisition of Red Hat, IBM is finally taking the next step and open sourcing the instruction set architecture of its Power family of processors. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/open-source-power-isa-takes-aim-at-intel-and-arm-for-accelerator-driven-computing/ IBM announced the release of the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA) as an open standard at the OpenPOWER Summit →

I saw one day an interesting looking multi-meter MUSTOOL MT77 Large Screen Smart Digital Multimeter Voltage Tester 3-Line Display Fully Auto-Range True RMS 6000 Counts DMM with Analog Bargraph.It is advertised as phone size design: 12 mm thin body and pocket size design make it looks like a smartphone. The meter has unibody design so →

https://www.boredpanda.com/photography-reality-behind-the-scenes-calob-castellon/ We are mesmerized by the beauty and quality of some Instagram photographs. And it often leaves us wondering if all these people have personal professional photographers and a free pass to a fancy studio. It appears that is not always the case… This article probes that quite unexpected everyday places can create an out-of-this-world →

https://www.forbes.com/sites/douglasbell/2019/08/13/60-years-of-seatbelts-volvos-great-gift-to-the-world/ Volvo proudly exclaim that: “few people have saved as many lives as Nils Bohlin”. 2019 is the 60th anniversary of Bohlin’s breakthrough idea used by billions of people: The 3-point safety belt has saved hundreds-of-thousands of lives and prevented or reduced the severity of injuries for millions of people. Nils Bohlin is the little-known →

Device Orchestra is back with another track, this time taking on Darude’s Sandstorm. Listen to the 2000 dance hit played on a pair of electric toothbrushes, an electric typewriter, and some credit card terminals: bit.ly/2KJjQNv →

Almost all connected device makers claim to care about security in their sales pitch, but the reality seems that the security of most device firmware is terrible. According to recent research the firmware security has not improved in any measurable way over the last 15 years, even as attacks on connected devices like home routers →