AMD seems to be putting out more embedded designs faster that it can write press releases for them.
This week it has released a new dual core APU which it says offers high performance at approximately 3W average power. It is selling for $74.00
The proposed design for the “Hyperloop,” an ultra-fast transit system that would run between San Francisco and Los Angeles, was revealed today on Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors website. Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, describes a system that moves pods under low pressure through a tube between the two cities following the I-5 freeway, all within a 56-page PDF document.
“Smaller but cleaner.” That’s one of the predictions voiced in I Think We’re All Bozos on This Bus, the 1971 album by comedic legends the Firesign Theatre. “Bozos” describes a dystopian future in which the president of the United States is powered by a mainframe successfully hacked by the hero—cutting-edge technology for the era.
Long-awaited improvements in photolithography could pave the way for the continued shrinking and scaling of microprocessors into the second half of this decade and beyond.
Moore's Law—which says that transistor densities double every 18 to 24 months or so—is not some inevitable consequence of physics. Rather, it's an observation of the way the semiconductor industry has evolved: the investment and technological progress that companies like Intel have made results in an approximate doubling of transistor densities on a regular basis.
A Canadian tinkerer who previously claimed to have created the world's first 3D-printed rifle, only to see the barrel crack upon its first videotaped test firing, has now created an updated version of the gun that was able to fire 14 rounds before suffering damage.
A boost in the speed of brain scans is unveiling new insights into how brain regions work with each other in cooperative groups called networks.
Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Institute of Technology and Advanced Biomedical Imaging at the University of Chieti, Italy, used the quicker scans to track brain activity in volunteers at rest and while they watched a movie.
L33tdawg: I received my Leap Motion last week as well and having played with it a bit I'll just say that we're a long ways away from a Minority Report experience. Don't get me wrong; it's an awesome piece of tech, but it's going to need a lot of sofware updates.
Here is a tale of two security research presentations, both looking at motor vehicle security in a world in which even the humblest shopping trolley now has more brainpower than a moonshot.
Flavio Garcia, a University of Birmingham lecturer familiar with insecurity in car systems – here, for example, is a paper he co-authored with Roel Verdult and Josep Balasch for 2012 – has been blocked from presenting to Usenix 2013, thanks to a House of Lords injunction requested by Volkswagen.
For years a staple of tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorists is that the CIA had cracked a way of controlling the weather and was using it to attack people.
It is probably not surprising that they are wrong, but it turns out that the spooks are interested in doing just that.
Cumbersome and slow cash machines with clunky buttons and tiny hard-to-see screens could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a range of next-generation ATMs.
Ohio-based security firm Diebold has created a touchscreen cash machine that works like a tablet computer, uses facial recognition and QR codes to identify and authenticate users, and has built-in safety cameras.
