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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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I was a science-y, tech-y kid I was, of course, interested in the space program. Science-y, tech-y kids grow up to be science-y, tech-y adults, so naturally, I kept an eye on the February 22 lunar landing of the Odysseus.
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It’s Valentine’s Day, so thoughts naturally turn to matters of the heart. And at Critical Link, that means matters of cardiovascular technology.
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Each year, I pay a vicarious visit to CES, the mega consumer technology show held in Las Vegas each January. So I worte about some of the products I didn’t see up close and personal
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Nitin Dahad on embedded.com has his eyes on three embedded tech trends that AI's will be driving in 2024.
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When the old year ends and the new year starts, I like to do both a backward look at what happened in the tech year in the past year, as well as what trends are emerging for the upcoming year. So I’ll ring this year in with a summary of a few articles I saw that recapped 2023.
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Wishing you all a joyous holiday season, and a healthy and prosperous new year.
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Now it’s time to do a bit of shopping for yourself – or for another grownup who’d like to find a tech gadget in their stocking.
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Although my kids are no longer kids, one of my favorite posts of the year is the one where I take a look at the year’s best tech toys.
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For Thanksgiving, some shoppers will no doubt be shopping the old-fashioned way,. Others will be doing self-checkout, doing their own RFID scanning and bagging. Still others may find themselves pushing an AI-powered smart cart.
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