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#neural #FPGA #inniskeen #astronomy #semiconductor #physics #asic #vlsi #radio #sdr 🔭 📻 🛰 📡 🪐 🖖 ⛵️🧠 RT ≠ endorsement - My opinions, not my employer's.

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Social media would be healthier if it fully shut down every evening after playing this, the Touch Grass video (Irish Edition)

10.02.2026 07:13 — 👍 214    🔁 39    💬 20    📌 5
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Hideki Sato, designer of all Sega’s consoles, has died | VGC Sato helmed design for consoles including Mega Drive, Saturn…

Hideki Sato, designer of virtually all of Sega’s consoles, has died.

vgc.news/news/hideki-...

15.02.2026 13:26 — 👍 396    🔁 169    💬 8    📌 43
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A COMPUTER ON A CHIP!

15.02.2026 20:02 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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CPUs are getting worse.



We’ve pushed the silicon so hard that silent data corruptions (SDCs) are no longer a theoretical problem.



Mercurial Cores are terrifying because they don’t hard-fail; they produce rare, but *incorrect* computations!

13.02.2026 20:11 — 👍 126    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 7

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

11.02.2026 19:56 — 👍 11728    🔁 4052    💬 80    📌 180
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Nice postcard of top of Grafton Street from the Green. #dublin

13.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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One frame shows a real mathematical equation from Kip Thorne’s notebook Pause and find it One frame shows a real mathematical equation from Kip Thorne’s notebook Pause and find it

One frame shows a real mathematical equation from Kip Thorne’s notebook Pause and find it
#Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #STEM #Space

15.02.2026 19:45 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chip Industry Week In Review Tighter controls on IC equipment; HBM4; design/verification AI super agent; new tool for AI adoption at scale; $200M funding for optical TPU; Imagination's new CEO; earnings blitz; Nexperia investigat...

Latest news in the semiconductor industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

13.02.2026 15:32 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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New ESA Phi-Lab Ireland launched at Mullingar’s IMR First announced last year, the ESA Phi-Lab Ireland has officially launched at Mullingar's Irish Manufacturing Research today.

Ireland has launched its first European Space Agency Phi-Lab at Irish Manufacturing Research.

The new facility, run in collaboration with the Amber, the Research Ireland Centre based in Trinity College Dublin, is poised to become Ireland’s national platform for space technology development.

13.02.2026 13:30 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Jeff Buckley and me: the story of the singer's 1992 Irish show Buckley's prep for the Trinity Ball, his first ever European show, involved drinking tea, eating Mikado biscuits and watching The Late Late Show

‘A class act’: Jeff Buckley and me. Michael Mary Murphy IADT tells the story of the singer's 1992 Irish show. ‘His preparation for the show was drinking tea with mum and a neighbour, eating Mikado biscuits and watching The Late Late Show’. www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

12.02.2026 12:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

😎 This weekend, ESA marks 18 years of Europe’s Columbus laboratory in orbit, and we’ve got a couple of these epic ‘How Columbus Learnt to Fly’ books to give away! Just share this post for a chance to win!👍

08.02.2026 22:23 — 👍 26    🔁 23    💬 1    📌 2
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Chip Industry Week in Review Intel's GPU push; strong M&A; Lam-CEA deal; AI workload fundings; Z-Angle memory; TSMC 3nm in Japan; improving chip power delivery; Arm's expanded startup program; sleeper agent-style backdoors; VR fo...

Weekly news roundup for the chip industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

06.02.2026 16:32 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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‘In the semiconductor space, Ireland punching above its weight,’ says expert IT Search's Graeme King explores how Ireland's semiconductor landscape is evolving and what that means for career-goers.

IT Search’s Graeme King discusses the semiconductor landscape in Ireland and the importance of addressing challenges creatively.

05.02.2026 12:55 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#imbolc #electronics

01.02.2025 20:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Catherine O'Hara in Beetlejuice

Catherine O'Hara in Beetlejuice

RIP queen

30.01.2026 18:18 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Chip Industry Week In Review New joint venture for high-speed interconnects; 2nm Indian chips; NAND capacity boost; quantum accelerates; CPO deals; U.S. rare earths deal; new AI chip; earnings bonanza; new test/package plant; fre...

Latest news in the chip industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

30.01.2026 16:23 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Gladys West, the mathematician and computer scientist integral to the creation of #GPS, has passed away. She left a lasting impact on mathematics, geodesy, and computer science. spectrum.ieee.org/gladys-west-...

20.01.2026 18:20 — 👍 17    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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Chip Industry Week in Review Goal to bring 40% of Taiwan's chip supply to the U.S.; 25% tariff on AI chip imports to U.S.; SK hynix buildout; 2 acquisitions; LPDDR5X for data centers; Wolfspeed's milestone; TSMC Q4; Ireland IC ex...

Latest news in the semiconductor industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor

16.01.2026 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Seán Ó Sé obituary: A remarkable singer best known for An Poc Ar Buile   A school principal and renowned singer, Seán Ó Sé's love of music endured right to the end 
13.01.2026 18:14 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
Seán Ó Sé: Iníon an Phailitínigh
YouTube video by muisire Seán Ó Sé: Iníon an Phailitínigh

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Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam
Remembering Seán O'Sé and the pleasure he gave who died today

13.01.2026 18:07 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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2,300 transistors to 5,500,000 transistors in 24 years.

12.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
Transient phase space showing radio luminosity versus the product of timescale and observing frequency for different transient source classes, following Cordes et al. (2004).

This is a figure from Murphy & Kaplan (2025) published in PASA. See the paper text (Figure 1 caption) for a full description.

Transient phase space showing radio luminosity versus the product of timescale and observing frequency for different transient source classes, following Cordes et al. (2004). This is a figure from Murphy & Kaplan (2025) published in PASA. See the paper text (Figure 1 caption) for a full description.

The final version of our Dawes Review on the Dynamic Radio Sky is now published!

doi.org/10.1017/pasa...

Everything you need to know about what causes radio transients: how we detect them, the history of radio transient surveys, and what new widefield radio telescopes will do.

#RadioAstronomy 🔭☄️🧪

12.01.2026 20:36 — 👍 46    🔁 17    💬 0    📌 1
ForgeFPGA™: Low Density FPGA Solutions from Renesas -- Renesas and Mouser Electronics
YouTube video by EE Journal ForgeFPGA™: Low Density FPGA Solutions from Renesas -- Renesas and Mouser Electronics

In this episode of Chalk Talk, Amelia and Matthew Leonard from Renesas explore the benefits that ForgeFPGAs, low density FPGA solutions from Renesas, bring to a variety of applications including computing and storage, wearables, and consumer electronics:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLYH...

01.10.2024 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Kickstart your future in science 🚀

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to conduct your own experiment at CERN?

High-school students from all over the world can now apply for the Beamline for Schools (#BL4S) competition.

13.01.2026 13:02 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1

I miss the old Morrissey lyrics.

09.01.2026 14:00 — 👍 114    🔁 17    💬 2    📌 1
The Comet Is Coming - Summon The Fire
YouTube video by TheCometIsComingVEVO The Comet Is Coming - Summon The Fire

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09.01.2026 21:00 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space "We're going to do it in three years, and we're going to do it for a ridiculously low price."

Former CEO of Google spearheads 4 next-gen telescopes — 3 on Earth and 1 in space www.space.com/space-explor...

08.01.2026 15:01 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Ex–Google CEO funds private space telescope bigger than Hubble Schmidt Sciences announces investments in orbiting observatory and three ground-based instruments

Ex–Google CEO funds private space telescope bigger than Hubble | Science | AAAS 🔭🧪 @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

07.01.2026 22:13 — 👍 25    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Chip Industry Week in Review Chip sales record; chiplet ecosystem accelerator; CES blitz; SDV deals; global fabs; DRAM, NAND price spike; auto L4 delay; data center connectivity buy; GPU-driven swings in power demand; Intel's 18A...

Latest news in the chip industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr...

#semiconductor #CES2026 #VLSI

09.01.2026 16:25 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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#RonnieDrew #Dubliners 🍀

08.01.2026 20:44 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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