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If you’re a maker with your head in the sky, you’ve got to check out thisRaspberry PiFPV monitorproject put together by Seii-FPV. Instead of searching the market for an existing product, Seii-FPV opted to make a device from scratch using open-source tools. In addition to working as an FPV drone monitor, the Raspberry Pi comes with all the benefits of a desktop PC. The final build is an all in one device that provides a real-time interface and feed with drones in flight....

TheRaspberry Pigoes with retro gaming like peanut butter and jelly, and today’s project is a shining example of their union. Maker and developer James Sargent has created a Game Boy Color drop-in kit called theReBoithat uses not one but two Raspberry Pis. His project was recently featured on Kickstarter and has passed his funding goal of $19,075 with 218 backers (as of this writing) eager to get their hands on the new kit....

According to a government decree, Russia’s critical information infrastructure facilities must transition to using Russian-made hardware and software systems by July 02, 2025. For now, Russia lacks domestically built high-performance hardware, so it has to certify pretty exotic solutions. This month, the country certified programmable controllers based on the Russian-made MCST Elbrus 2S3 processors, which are used for single-board computers that areRussian Raspberry Pi alternatives. The hardware in question is the Elbrus programmable logic controller (PLC), which is based on the MCST Elbrus-2S3 developed by Roselectronics....

Linux often the leads Windows in benchmark comparisons, at least for certain tasks. However, performance between different Linux distros can also vary drastically.Phoronixbenchmarked AMD’s latestRyzen 9 9950Xin five different Linux distros, including one featuring Intel optimizations, and discovered the Zen 5 chip runs up to 16% faster with the Intel-optimized distro.The distro in question is called Clear Linux, and it’s purportedly one of the most highly optimized Linux distros for x86 processors....

Samsung has started mass production of the world’s thinnest LPDDR5X DRAM packages featuring 12 GB and 16 GB capacities. These new products feature a thickness of around 0.65 mm, which is 0.06 mm thinner than typical LPDDR5X packages. Samsung has used a new packaging technique, including optimized printed circuit board (PCB) and epoxy molding compound (EMC), to build the new packages featuring a 4-stack structure. An optimized back-lapping process has been used to reduce the package height further....

The fastest PCIe Gen 4 drive you can buy, the 4TB Samsung 990 Pro offers extremely fast performance and whopping amounts of capacity in an M.2 2280 form factor. We often recommend this drive when it goes on sale and, currently, it’s on sale for what seems to be its lowest-ever price. For October Prime Day, you can find theSamsung 990 Pro 4TB SSD with heatsink for just $265, or just below 7 cents per GB at Amazon....

Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke released an internal memo in late March where he said, “Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify.” He then shared it completely a few days later onX (formerly Twitter), saying that it’s being leaked anyway, so it might as well come from him. The memo outlines six things: Everyone is expected to use AI in Shopify; all projects must use AI during the prototyping phase; AI use is included in performance and peer reviews; everyone must share what they learned using AI; teams must first check if something can be done using AI before hiring; and that everyone means including the executive team and Lütke himself....

Silicon Motion plans to formally introduce its MonTitan SM8466 SSD controller with a PCIe 6.0 x4 host interface at the upcoming FMS 2025 conference next month, according to a leak byITHome. The new controller will enable drives with sequential read speeds of up to 28 GB/s and random read/write throughput of a whopping 7M IOPS. Silicon Motion’s MonTitan SM8466 SSD controller forenterpriseSSD will feature 16 NAND channels supporting all the upcoming types of 3D NAND memory, as revealed by Wallace C....

Huawei and presumably China’s Semiconductor Manufacturing International Co. (SMIC) have submitted patents for a chip production method called self-aligned quadruple patterning (SAQP). The ultimate aim is to produce chips on a 5nm-class process technology, according to aBloombergreport. The very same method was a major reason for the failure of Intel’s 1st Generation 10nm-class process technology, but Huawei and SMIC have no choice but to use quadruple patterning as they do not have access to leading-edge production tools due to U....

The Spectrum TV app doesn’t always work smoothly on your Roku TV. Sometimes, you might see an “App Unavailable on Roku” error. When this happens, it means the Spectrum app is under maintenance. So, wait a few minutes and check the Spectrum server status to know whether the issue is within the server. Sometimes, factors likeslow internetor outdated software cause this issue. There can also be other causes that you can easily fix in a few simple steps....

Elon Musk has held a call with major xAI investors recently in an attempt to raise tens of billions of dollars, according toCNBC’s David Faber, a renownedfinancial journalist and market news analyst. Musk reportedly outlined the raise as a way to place a proper value on the company, although the analyst contends that the money could also be spent on xAI’sColossus 2 supercomputer, which featuresone million GPUs. “Musk is quoted as having said, we are going to ‘put a proper value on the company’ in reference to xAI and people took that to mean and again, this is speculation, that they will have a large raise, the last raise,” said Faber....

SteelSeries' QCK Heavy mouse pad has been at the top of our list ofbest gaming mouse padsfor a long time — it features a micro-woven cloth surface and a non-skid rubber base, and the extra thickness (0.16 - 0.24 inches / 4 - 6 mm thick, depending on size) offers a more comfortable, stable surface than the standard QCK series (0.08 - 0.12 inches / 2 - 3 mm thick, depending on size)....

Tachyum has released a 1,600-page guide for optimizing the performance of its Prodigy Universal Processor FPGA hardware. Even though the company has yet to tape out its Prodigy processors after years of delays, it hasreleaseda performance optimization manual for the chips, which have a unique instruction set architecture and optimization strategies, well before actual products start sampling or hit the market. The Prodigy universal processor has faced repeated delays since its initial timeline....