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Fanless quad-core ‘brick’ computer runs Linux Mint
July 24, 2018 by Jan Buiting

Fanless quad-core ‘brick’ computer runs Linux Mint

The 4th generation of miniature fanless PCs from Compulab and the folk behind Linux Mint is... (drumroll) MintBox Mini 2 (MBM2)! Processing power comes from a quad-core Apollo Lake Celeron J3455, and MBM2 is supplied with the Mint 19 ‘Tara’ Cinnamon installed.
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Storing zettabytes of data in nanocrystals
July 16, 2018
Source: University of Adelaide

Storing zettabytes of data in nanocrystals

Mankind is producing so much data that storing it all is becoming more difficult every day. It is expected that by 2020 about 40 zettabytes of data will be generated per year (1 ZB = 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes); in 2025, according to Seagate, 163 ZB of data has to be stored. That is an awful lot of thumb drives...
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Free article download: Automation Meets IT with CDP Studio
June 28, 2018 by Elektor Team

Free article download: Automation Meets IT with CDP Studio

In his article Automation Meets IT with CDP Studio, Odd Gilinsky of CDP Technologies provides an easy introduction to building fast, distributed control systems on industrial computers. The article was previously published in Elektor Business Edition issue 2/2018, and is now offered as a free download to all Elektor e-zine readers.
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A trip down memory lane
June 26, 2018 by Thomas Scherer

South Korean company offers iPhone nostalgia

It was back in June 2009 that Apple proudly introduced their latest iPhone 3GS to the market. Needless to say things have moved on since then but oddly enough in South Korea this exact model is now being offered for sale in brand new condition with its original packaging (and battery)...
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Google AI Voice Kit: Big Brother in a cardboard box
June 20, 2018 by Denis Meyer

Google AI Voice Kit: Big Brother in a cardboard box

The video chosen for you by Elektor TV this week describes the experimenter’s Google AI Voice Kit, with which Google attempts to put “his” intelligence to the service of voice communication between man and machine. One has to wonder about the deeper motives of Google’s “generosity” in this, but it is certainly worthy of our attention. A cardboard box to talk to Big Brother, now that’s unusual.
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Review & Raffle: pi-top 3 turns Raspberry Pi into STEAM engine
June 13, 2018 by Clemens Valens

Review & Raffle: pi-top 3 turns Raspberry Pi into STEAM engine

The pi-top [3] is an all-in-one portable solution in the shape of a kit that transforms a Raspberry Pi into a laptop computer with a 14” 1920 × 1080 high-resolution TFT display, a keyboard with mouse pad, and a battery. An RPi 3 model B+ is included. Read on to find out what you can do with the pi-top.
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RPi: 3B or 3B+? That is the question
June 6, 2018 by Denis Meyer

RPi: 3B or 3B+? That is the question

In a few minutes this video gives a summary of the differences (and similarities) between the 3B and 3B+ versions of the Raspberry Pi from the point of view of a reasonably well informed and hopefully impartial user. This information is often seen or heard, but to do a comparative test, with simultaneous starts of the two versions, is a real dogfight!
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Russian K155ID1 drivers "complete with KGB-instigated hacking interface"
May 16, 2018 by Denis Meyer

Russian K155ID1 drivers "complete with KGB-instigated hacking interface"

Each medal has a flip side; each mountain, a north-facing slope. The darkest side of YouTube's mass of videos is too often the bevy of rants and negative comments. Here's a pleasant exception, brilliant, and jubilant, from Marco Reps, about Elektor Labs' 6-Digit GPS Synchronized Nixie Clock published in Elektor Magazine edition 5/2016 on page 56, now available as a DIY kit in the Elektor Store.
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Can you help me build a time machine?
May 8, 2018
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by ClemensValens

Can you help me build a time machine?

The Internet has loads of information on the past, from prehistoric to recent, yet I do not know of a system or tool capable of compiling all this information into a virtual reality like Google Street View, that lets the user stroll around in the past. I'd like to enter a date & place and get a feel of what things looked and were at that specific time, not just by watching a few photographs, but by actually walking around. Can you help me?
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Proposed memory cell structure based on Chromia. Source: Victora and Ahmed
May 8, 2018
Source: Applied Physics Letters

Chromia: a candidate for DRAMs?

The ongoing miniaturization of semiconductor memory cells is losing momentum. They are based on transistors and use electric fields to store information. Magnetic fields can also store data, a new design makes use of the magnetoelectric effect to switch the magnetic properties of a material using an electric field. This design has the advantages of simplicity, small size and low energy consumption...
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