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Freescale Beefs Up the Bell Curve
We learn about bell curves (or Gaussian distribution, if you’re a nerd) in school. It’s the time-honored observation that the midrange of any large set…
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Rabbit Ears and 400G
Recently, I saw an ad by a major US carrier talking about the amazing capabilities of their 4GB/month data plan. According to the commercial, this…
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Sensing Mother Nature’s Pending Fury
It affects each of us differently: that low-frequency, distant rumble in the sky. If you’re out exposed on a hill, it makes you look around…
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Jubilee Technologies
You may have heard – in Britain we had a major Royal event a few weeks ago. It was celebrating 60 years of Elizabeth’s reign…
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Chasing Rainbows
With the predictability of a sunrise, the Moore’s Law heartbeat has throbbed its way into the collective consciousness of electronic designers. Every two years or…
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Taking Your Lumps At Optical Frequencies
There’s an interesting twist on nano-scale electronics that’s being worked on at the University of Pennsylvania, and it has an optical element. Skimming over some…
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“I Made That”
Most little kids want to grow up to be cowboys, ballerinas, astronauts, or firemen. Not you. You wanted to be an engineer, didn’t you? You…
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It Might Get Complicated
Jack White’s manic bawl floats like frenetic frosting over a raucous clipped riff from the Parsons Triple Jet. The live recording is a mess, mixed…
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Swarmed by Sensors
There are a lot of things about San Francisco that cause debate, but there’s one item everyone can agree on: Parking SUCKS. Many a time…
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Memories With Heat Sinks
It’s not often you see memory chips with heat sinks. But these are no ordinary memory chips. No, indeed. These are “bandwidth engines,” a new…