Author of The Metric Tide, RoRI’s @jameswilsdon.bsky.social, and UCL’s Geraint Rees, examine the AI tidal wave for research funders www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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

The far side of the moon is the quietest place to put a radio telescope—shielded from Earth’s RF noise. LuSEE-Night aims to detect signals from the cosmic Dark Ages, a 400-million-year gap in the universe's history. But growing lunar traffic means time is running out.

Moving another of the archive over, here is Lighthouses of Ireland, UK, Northern France and Belgium. Data from 🇮🇪 www.irishlights.ie 🇬🇧 www.trinityhouse.co.uk 🇫🇷 www.shom.fr and in particular www.nlb.org.uk for lights of 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and 🇮🇲. Additional data from msi.nga.mil and @wikipedia.bsky.social

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable coolant that makes MRI scanners and advanced microchips possible

Want to Build Chips 10X faster and at 50% Lower Cost (Without Changing Existing Tools or Workflows)? (Max Maxfield) www.eejournal.com/article/want...

How Did An AI Agent Build a RISC V CPU Core In Just 12 Hours

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Coronation Street star, Ena Sharples (Violet Carson), looking out over Manchester (1968) 📷 John Madden.

Microchip has announced new PIC series microcontroller families built around a configurable logic block architecture — combining CPLD-like programmable logic with traditional MCU capabilities in a single chip.

Wi-Fi That Can Withstand a Nuclear Reactor

One of the first complaints about Archiseek back in 1996 was my spelling of "colour" as "colour" (americans), and that i had more stuff on Monaghan than Cork (indignant Cork people, and i'm from....) #archiseek30

Francis Bacon argued that making things was a valid path to science.

Before the ubiquity of personal computers, a group of teens gathered in a New Jersey barn to learn to code, program, and experiment with the interactive world of the future. @spectrum.ieee.org excerpts "README," a literary history of computers by @patrickmccray.bsky.social:

Starup Orbital Arc has designed a smaller, more efficient thruster for launching satellites. By using nanoscale tips that polarize electrons instead of plasma generation, these thrusters can have a 30-40 percent improvement in power efficiency. spectrum.ieee.org/ion-thruster

@sandialabs.bsky.social is testing #supercomputers with reconfigurable accelerators, similar to FPGAs, that optimize their hardware for specific computations that are being run. spectrum.ieee.org/reconfigurab...

What do computers and looms have in common? The grandchild of two early computer architects sees a connection reflected in one Irish word.

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Imagine hearing aids that enhance sound by syncing with your brainwaves, reducing mental strain in noisy environments. By tracking brain activity and tiny eye measurements, these hearing aids would measure cognitive load and adjust accordingly. spectrum.ieee.org/hearing-aids...

NASA Shut Down Voyager 1 Science Instrument After Unexpected Power Drop https://gizmodo.com/nasa-shut-down-voyager-science-instrument-after-power-levels-fell-unexpectedly-2000748707

Thought for the day: Earth is 10^30 times as dense as an averaged-out sample of the universe. That is, gravity has amplified the density of our planet by a factor of thousand billion billion billion. Without that amplification, we would not be here. 🧪🔭

Asif Kapadia to direct 70 Up, last chapter of influential ITV documentary series

Fascinating analysis of modern Ireland by Sinead O'Sullivan (who I know via her space policy work) www.butthistime.com/p/mind-the-gap

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"Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person." - Sherlock Holmes, fictional UK detective, (1854 - 1914)

Latest news semiengineering.com/chip-industr... #semiconductor

BBC radio DJ Andy Kershaw dies aged 66

Make It Myself xkcd.com/3233/

Time Dilation kind of makes the whole “datacenters in space” idea more fun.

 Technically… a GPS Block III CPU runs an extra ~7,000 clock cycles per day compared to the same machine on earth.

 Extend to the extreme, and you get the whole subfield of CS+physics called relativistic hypercompuation.

80,000,000nm process technology. Not useful to build a RISC-V

Trinity Unseen...

If anyone is in the Whitehaven area, could you pop over to the Jawas and ask if they have any secondhand droids for sale, thanks.

Paris' Bull and Dublin start-up Equal1 have entered into a partnership that aims to boost the next generation of hybrid quantum-classical technologies via European solutions.

European chip giant ASML continued to post strong results today, as the AI race leads to surging demand.

The value of goods exported from Ireland has grown dramatically from only €11 billion in 1984 to €224 billion in 2024 - that's an incredible twenty-fold increase. Our trade balance has risen from zero to a €89bn surplus. Wow. 🇮🇪📈 www.cso.ie/en/releasesa...

The cover for this week’s Future Issue is “New Horizons,” by Christoph Niemann. See what’s inside: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/Aifa_g

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Traditional music group Clannad, from Gweedore in the Donegal Gaeltacht, perform ‘An t-Oileán Úr’ at The Embankment Tallaght, Dublin. youtube.com/watch?v=ESQU...

Clannad - Clannad 2 (1974) RIP Máire Brennan #NowPlaying one of my all-time favourite albums

Speaking as a software engineer, as few things as possible should be running software. Knobs and dials can't be half-arsed because "we can fix it later (but never will)".

A thing of beauty—Voyager 1 is calling home right now and the Madrid station is also connected to Artemis 2. You can watch the deep space network live anytime you want. eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now...

Ah yes, my third-year Engineering days at TCD, and this was a popular video choice in every Abrakebabra after the Pav closed. Then it was back to my gaff for the real stuff — Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps).

#LinkWray #Rockabilly #AlleyCatHowl ♠️

Research Ireland and the Irish Government are to spend €17m on nine infrastructure projects across a variety of STEM fields.

Á athphostáil seo i gcuimhne ar Mháire Ní Bhraonáin, atá imithe ar shlí na fírinne/Reposting this in memory of Moya Brennan. letslearnirish.com/articles/cla...

Moya Brennan, best known as the lead singer of Grammy and BAFTA-winning group Clannad, has died aged 73