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You May Scoff, But AI-Powered PCB Layout Is Really Real
Recently, I re-watched the epic science fiction movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Although this film was released in 1968, I don’t think I saw it…
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Next-Generation Motion Sensing Facilitates Immersive Spatial Audio
I was sitting here thinking (don’t worry, I’ll try not to make a habit of it). I was contemplating how, even when we think things…
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Retro Gadgets, Gizmos, Tools, and Technologies
It’s funny how you think you know what a word means until someone asks you for a definition, at which point you run into problems…
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Wow! That’s Some AI SOM!
Sometimes people say things that are both obvious and unexpectedly insightful. “Unexpected,” in the sense that I hadn’t thought of it myself—yet once I heard…
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Are Mixed Reality Theme Parks Headed Our Way?
I’m not sure when I first ran across the concepts of things like virtual reality and augmented reality. I think it may have been around…
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Eeek Alors! AI-Powered PCB Layout Is Here and It’s Awesome
For reasons we need not go into here, I was just perusing a column on French phrases that people in France do not, in fact,…
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Making Machine Vision Accessible and Affordable for Engineers, Educators, and Makers
I’m sure I’ve asked you this before, but have you ever read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by the late, great Douglas Adams? If so,…
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Celebrating the FPGA’s 40th Birthday
The phrase “wake up and smell the coffee” is an idiom that means: “Pay attention to what’s really going on.” It’s not that this is…
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Living in a Cubic World
What I laughingly call “my mind” is usually jam-packed with a jumble of rambling miscellaneous musings, all vying for my attention… and today is no…
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Is This the First Video Podcast with an AI Co-Host?
Things are moving at breakneck speed in artificial intelligence (AI) space (where no one can hear you scream). For example, I’ve just been introduced to…