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  • Art Exhibit Lets You Hide From Self-Driving Cars
    by Maya Posch on March 29, 2024 at 11:00 am

    In the discussions about how dangerous self-driving cars are – or aren’t – one thing is sorely missing, and that is an interactive game in which you do your best …read more

  • LoRA, With No Radio
    by Jenny List on March 29, 2024 at 8:00 am

    A LoRa project has traditionally required a dedicated radio module, because it’s a commercially licenced protocol. But as the way it works has been progressively reverse engineered, it’s become ever …read more

  • The Intel 8088 and 8086 Processor’s Instruction Prefetch Circuitry
    by Maya Posch on March 29, 2024 at 5:00 am

    Cache prefetching is what allows processors to have data and/or instructions ready for use in a fast local cache rather than having to wait for a fetch request to trickle …read more

  • Is Your Mental Model of Bash Pipelines Wrong?
    by Donald Papp on March 29, 2024 at 2:00 am

    [Michael Lynch] encountered a strange situation. Why was compiling then running his program nearly 10x faster than just running the program by itself? [Michael] ran into this issue while benchmarking …read more

  • Saving a Clock Radio with an LM8562
    by Bryan Cockfield on March 28, 2024 at 11:00 pm

    Smart phones have taken the place of a lot of different devices especially as they get more and more powerful. GPS, music and video player, email, and of course a …read more

  • Exploring The Sega Saturn’s Wacky Architecture
    by Maya Posch on March 28, 2024 at 8:00 pm

    In the annals of game console history, the Sega Saturn is probably the most convoluted system of all time, even giving the Playstation 3 a run for its rings. Also …read more

  • Retrogadgets: Butler in a Box
    by Al Williams on March 28, 2024 at 7:08 pm

    You walk into your house and issue a voice command to bring up the lights and start a cup of coffee. No big deal, right? Siri, Google, and Alexa can …read more