The new ESP32-S31 chip for IoT devices features a 320 MHz dual-core 32-bit RISC-V MCU with support for 2.4 GHz WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, Gigabit Ethernet, Thread, and Zigbee support. www.espressif.com/en ...

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Once the premium option for data transfers and remote control for high-end audiovisual and other devices, FireWire (IEEE 1394) has been dying a slow death ever since Apple and Sony switched over ...

Performance varied significantly, with the MacBook Air M3 achieving the fastest speed (72 tokens/second), followed by the ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is several times faster than previous models of the compact and cheap computer. For less than a couple hundred bucks, you can have a computer that can do many tasks that previously ...

They have a certain charm, for sure.

Google's Gemma 4 model goes fully open-source and unlocks powerful local AI - even on phones ...

In honor of the company's 50th anniversary, I bought an Apple QuickTake 100 from 1994 to find out what it was like to use a ...

Way back in 1994, Apple beat Canon and Nikon to release the first reasonably priced digital camera, the QuickTake 100. Using ...

Yesterday, I wrote about a 2-year-old open-source hardware ESP32-based DAB+ receiver project, but it turns out there's also a ...

There were a plethora of tiny, local ISPs in the days of dial-up internet. Along with the big providers, many cities would ...

This first article in a series explains the core AI concepts behind running LLM and RAG workloads on a Raspberry Pi, including why local AI is useful and what tradeoffs to expect.