Batteries coming to major home appliances? Maybe…
Appliance-by-battery-operation may be moving beyond the realm of small appliances and into the domain of heavy appliances like stoves, refrigerators, and washing machines.
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Celebrating the 4th of July
Fireworks have always been one of my favorite parts of 4th of July celebrations. There are few things that rival watching the skies light up on a warm summer’s night.
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Power vs. Performance: some stories never get old
Juggling competing demands is a challenge as old as technology. When it comes to embedded systems, the story is often about how to maximize performance while minimizing power consumption.
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The Industrial Internet of Things
The IOT has become so much a part of our daily lives – sometimes, admittedly, in fairly trivial ways. It’s good to be reminded that the IIOT is out there as well, changing the way many industries work.
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Technology in the NICU
NICU tech is yet another example of how technology is life-enhancing.
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What’s brewing with AI?
Research published in Nature Communications described how AI models are being used to find not only how consumers will rate a beer, but also how to make a beer that’s better tasting.
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MIT Tech Review – Breakthrough Technologies for 2024
Each year, the MIT Technology Review takes a look at “promising technologies posed to have a real impact on the world.” And each year I enjoy taking a look through their picks. Not surprisingly, the first technology cited was AI. After all, something AI-related has had a spot on pretty much every future/breakthrough tech list […]
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Battery Progress
Across the boards in the tech world, things do tend to get smaller, faster, cheaper, and smarter.
So it has been in the battery world.
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Smart vending machines (really smart). Who knew?
Vending machines have gotten smart. Really smart. Facial recognition smart.
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ARM vs. RISC-V
At Critical Link, we spend a lot of time thinking about processors, and some of that thinking is around ARM vs. RISC-V Instruction Set Architectures, or ISA’s, which are basically the go-between between hardware and software.
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