Eugene O'Rourke
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Last night, Isar Aerospace achieved the first launch to orbit from continental Europe, becoming the first provider to reach this milestone for @transport.esa.int's European Launcher Challenge. More 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 📸 Isar Aerospace
Isar Aerospace achieves first launch to orbit from continental Europe
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During a recent conference held in Winterthur, Switzerland, engineers working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) confirmed that the laboratory is going to move from...
CERN is moving more than 2,200 specialized computers from RHEL to Debian
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A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
"The goal of academic training is not to solve problems as efficiently and quickly as possible, but to develop skills for identifying and dealing with novel problems, which have never been solved before." openletter.earth/open-letter-... @olivia.science
Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia
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For nearly 50 years, the title "Intel fellow" has been reserved for the company's most accomplished scientists. https://mrf.lu/2q4XG
A famed physicist’s scribbles reveal the answer to a quintessential dilemma: When dining out, is it better to stick with an old favorite, or try something new? https://www.sciencenews.org/article/math-restaurant-meal-feynman
The math of choosing a restaurant meal is revealed in Richard Feynman’s notes
Physicist Richard Feynman turned a lunch dilemma into a math problem. Researchers finally cracked his notes and found people approximate his solution on their own.
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Anthony Howe is a kinetic sculptor who creates wind-driven sculptures resembling pulsing, alien creatures and vortices. This one is in downtown Montreal. Original post
“With Racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.” LE MANS (1971) #SteveMcQueen
One of my fondest childhood memories was not knowing the name of any CEO of any company.
Richard O’Sullivan, star of 70s sitcom Man About the House, dies aged 82
Richard O’Sullivan, star of 70s sitcom Man About the House, dies aged 82
Actor, who also played title roles in Robin’s Nest and Dick Turpin, dies peacefully at Royal Variety Charity care home Richard O’Sullivan, known for his role as Robin Tripp in the 1970s TV sitcoms Man About the House and Robin’s Nest, has died aged 82. The actor, who was also famous for playing the title character in the TV series Dick Turpin, died peacefully with his family at his side at the Royal Variety Charity’s care home on Friday, the organisation said. Continue reading...
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Chip Industry Week In Review semiengineering.com/chip-industr...
Chip Industry Week In Review
2D Tunnel FET; in-memory photonic computing; India's $13.4B Semicon 2.0; SEMICON Taiwan; PCIe 6/7 test; MediaTek deal; 300mm Si photonics; InP expansion; $75M to recycle rare earths; GF PDKs; Gain-Cel...
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Récemment a été lancé le Nancy Roman Space Telescope, un télescope spatial aux propriétés uniques, très complémentaire des autres télescopes spatiaux déjà à l'œuvre. J'aime bien cette infographie de Thierry Delestre pour en faire la synthèse :
AMD has released a permissively-licensed soft-core image signal processor targeting computer vision and camera projects powered by its FPGA hardware — designed to take up as few hardware resources as possible.
AMD's Permissive-License Mini-ISP Is a Tiny Image Signal Processor for UltraScale+ and Newer FPGAs
Looking to build a machine learning system without burning resources? Mini-ISP might just be for you.
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Interested in electronics, engineering labs and supporting student innovation? We're hiring a Technical Officer at @tcddublin.bsky.social's School of Engineering. Work across teaching, research and the new E3 Learning Foundry. Apply: www.tcd.ie/engineering/...
Roman is on its way. Zooniverse is getting ready NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched, beginning its journey toward a new era of wide-field space astronomy. Roman is NASA’s next flagship observatory, designed to survey vast areas of the universe in near-infrared…
Roman is on its way. Zooniverse is getting ready
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope has successfully launched, beginning its journey toward a new era of wide-field space astronomy. Roman is NASA’s next flagship observatory, designed to survey vast areas of the universe in near-infrared light. Its observations will help scientists tackle some of the biggest questions in astrophysics: What is dark energy? How is dark matter distributed across the universe?
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In the spring of 1951, Jack Kerouac's muse struck hard, leading him to create a full-length manuscript for “On the Road” in just three weeks.
A 120-foot burst of genius: Jack Kerouac’s 'On the Road' scroll and its wild afterlife
In the spring of 1951, Jack Kerouac's muse struck hard, leading him to create a full-length manuscript for “On the Road” in just three weeks.
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In case of use for others, sharing this slide in my intro class for a Bachelor course that I teach to AI students (and other interested students). More resources in thread 🧵
Nvidia has announced plans to invest $3.5bn into MediaTek, as part of its current partnership.
Nvidia investing $3.5m into semiconductor company MediaTek
Nvidia is investing $3.5m into chip maker Mediatek, as part of the organisation's continued partnership in the AI and semiconductor spaces.
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NOMINATIONS OPEN! Do you have a project inspiring the next generation of IC designers? Apply for the IEEE SSCS James D. Meindl Innovators Award! Up to $20k development grant + $5k honorarium. 🏆 Deadline: Oct 15, 2026 🔗 https://bit.ly/4qbyqjV #IEEESSCS #CircuitDesign #STEM
Optical chiplets promise a way out of the bandwidth, power, and reach limits of copper interconnects, but bringing photonics into advanced packages is proving more difficult than just swapping one signaling medium for another. semiengineering.com/photonics-fo... #photonics
Photonics Forces A Chiplet Rethink
Thermal drift, stress, electromagnetic coupling, and verification gaps are turning optical integration into a full-system co-design problem rather than a plug-in bandwidth upgrade.
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As NASA prepares to launch its new Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this weekend, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Prof Don Figer examines the telescope’s purpose and its origins in US spycraft.
Spy to space: The science behind NASA’s Roman Space Telescope
As NASA prepares to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope this weekend, Rochester Institute of Technology’s Don Figer examines the telescope.
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🎨 The IEEE SSCS Student Shirt Design Contest is live! Illustrate this year's theme, "Trusted Sustainable Silicon Intelligence from Edge to Cloud," to win up to $1,000. The top design will be featured at ISSCC 2027! 🏆 🚨 Deadline: Sept 25, 2026 👉 https://bit.ly/4vsJ8E0
Big week in the chip industry semiengineering.com/chip-industr... #semiconductor
Chip Industry Week in Review
Hot Chips AI HW wave; HBM vs HBC; capacity buildout; Infineon's latest buy; advanced packaging enablers; foundry report; ASIC security threats; IC tariffs; executive changes; Nvidia, Synopsys earnings...
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Sandi Toksvig embarks on ‘odyssey’ around the island of Ireland in new Channel 4 travel series share.google/oFg7C4hj4XDB...
Sandi Toksvig embarks on ‘odyssey’ around the island of Ireland in new Channel 4 travel series
Tourism Ireland supports new TV series set to air in Britain later this year
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