Category: Technology

Carrageenan, a seaweed derivative, can stabilize lithium-sulfur batteries surprisingly
Lithium-sulfur batteries are suitable for both vehicle and grid applications as they are ultra-cheap, high-energy devices. Sulfur is a very low-cost material and the energy capacity is much higher than that of lithium-ion. So, lithium-sulfur is one chemistry that can possibly meet the...
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96-Layer Memory Chips By Toshiba
The need for larger memory storage for smartphones will never stop, especially with the continuous development of larger and stronger applications. This need is always pushing semiconductor manufacturers to keep trying to fit as much bits as possible in smaller volumes and with lower...
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Open-Hardware Reaches The Outer Space with UPSat Satellite
Libre Space Foundation completed the mission of building a completely Open-Source 2U CubeSat Satellite from scratch. It’s called “UPSat”. On April 18th at Cape Canaveral in Florida, Atlas V Rocket launched Private Cygnus Cargo Ship, and UPSat was among its cargo. With both...
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A New Material For Unbreakable Smart Devices
Most of smartphones parts are made of silicons and other compounds, which are expensive and easily-breakable. This problem is making all of smart devices manufacturers looking for stronger and cheaper solutions. By combining a set of materials, a group of researchers have successfully...
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Cinque, Combining RISC-V With Arduino
After announcing "HiFive1" at the end of 2016, SiFive is introducing its second RISC-V based development board "The Arduino Cinque". It is the first Arduino board that is featuring RISC-V instruction set architecture. Arduino Cinque is running SiFive’s Freedom E310, one of the fastest...
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Renesas Electronics Achieves Lowest Embedded SRAM Power of 13.7 nW/Mbit
Renesas Electronics Corporation announced the successful development of a new low-power SRAM circuit technology that achieves a record ultra-low power consumption of 13.7 nW/Mbit in standby mode. The prototype SRAM also achieves a high-speed readout time of 1.8 ns during active...
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Quantum Internet Is Coming!
Secure and unhackable Internet is a goal of many researchers around the world. This is possible using an invisible quantum physical connections as networking links known as "quantum entanglement". The main challenge is building large networks that share entangled links with many...
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Bluey, BLE Development Board Supports NFC
Development boards are assistant tools that help engineers and enthusiasts to become familiarized with hardware development. They simplify the process of controlling and programming hardware, such as microcontrollers and microprocessors. Electronut Labs, an embedded systems consulting...
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