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When Tubes were Better than Transistors
“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.” – William Shakespeare Way back in 1960, just after ICs were invented but before they became…
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The Debug Time Machine
“Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?” – PFC Hudson, Aliens If you’re debugging code, which tool would you…
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Inside Intel Agilex FPGAs
One of the most interesting announcements in Intel’s tidal wave of “Data-Centric” product and technology rollouts this month was the introduction of the company’s new…
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LoRa Ups Security
But even with the technology, we can apparently do better. We’re going to focus today on the LoRaWAN collection of wireless networks dedicated to low-throughput…
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The Internet of Beer and Diapers
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. – Marshall McLuhan Arm, the processor purveyor, predicts that the world’s tech manufacturers will mint one trillion new…
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Chirp Does Data Over Sound
“Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise.” – David Sedaris “Oops! I forgot to add the Wi-Fi!” How many times has this happened…
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Intel Rolls New Xeon Servers and More
Today, Intel made what is likely to be their most important announcement of the year, or perhaps the next couple of years. Clearly the biggest…
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LonWorks Evolves
My, how times change! Back more than 10 years ago, I wrote about a control-oriented network called LonWorks from a company called Echelon. And I…
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This Apocalypse Brought to You by the IoT
Last January, the speaker in a Nest Cam indoor home security camera blared out a piercing alarm in Laura Lyons’ living room in Orinda, California.…
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I’d Like to Buy a Hint, Pat
“When one has taken root, one puts out branches.” – Jules Verne What do microprocessors, pine trees, and public libraries all have in common? They…