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Canonical releases Ubuntu 23.04 Lunar Lobster

“New installer, Active Directory login and gaming performance enhance Ubuntu Desktop for work and play Today Canonical announces the release of Ubuntu 23.04, codenamed “Lunar Lobster”. Available to download and install from https://ubuntu.com/download. “This Ubuntu milestone …

CMU Team Designs Four-Legged Robotic System That Can Walk a Balance Beam

“Researchers in Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute (RI) have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam — a feat that is likely the first of its kind. “This experiment was …

Elon Musk’s SpaceX’s Starship rocket explodes minutes after launching from Texas

“SpaceX’s Starship rocket blasted off on its first test flight on Thursday but failed minutes after rising from the launch pad. The two-stage rocket ship, standing taller than the Statue of Liberty at 120 metres high, blasted off from …

ESA’s Juice lifts off on quest to discover secrets of Jupiter’s icy moons

“ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 14:14 CEST on 14 April. The successful launch marks the beginning of an ambitious voyage to uncover …

Getting Purer Berkelium, Faster than Ever

“The Science Researchers need a better way to extract individual heavy metal elements, called actinides, to obtain a purer product. In 2018, researchers discovered that the actinide berkelium, when oxidized, does not form negatively charged ions in solutions of high …

Intel Dives into the Future of Cooling

“Extending Moore’s Law means putting more transistors on an integrated circuit and, increasingly, adding more cores. Doing so improves performance but requires more energy. Over the past decade, Intel estimates it has saved 1,000 terawatt hours of electricity …

Lattice Extends Low Power FPGA Portfolio with Launch of MachXO5T-NX Advanced System Control FPGAs

” Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced the Lattice MachXO5T™-NX family of advanced system control FPGAs designed to address customer challenges related to growing system management design complexity. The latest low power FPGAs based on …

LED Fader Using 555 Timer IC

“In this tutorial, I am going to show you guys how to create a true LED fading effect using the 555 timer IC. Wanted to generate a LED fading effect (fade-in and fade-out) for my upcoming video tutorial using the …

Meet the Autonomous Lab of the Future

“Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the A-Lab To accelerate development of useful new materials, researchers are building a new kind of automated lab that uses robots guided by artificial intelligence. “Our …

μLA: Micro Logic Analyzer for RP2040

“Turn you Raspberry Pi Pico (or any RP2040 board) into simple logic analyzer in 5 minutes. Turn you Raspberry Pi Pico (or any RP2040 board) into simple logic analyzer in 5 minutes. μLA is SUMP/OLS compatible logic analyzer firmware …