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Novastart: laptops and smart whiteboards that ship with an infinite-canvas OS
Novastart OS is The Infinite Canvas Whiteboard OS, an infinite canvas for apps, shared canvases, and AI agents, with a free plan. Novastart also sells six computers with it pre-installed: 14", 15", and 17" laptops from $350 and 75", 90", and 100" smart whiteboards from $1,200, with a minimum order of 1 unit.
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Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?
Kim Zetter investigates the hardware backdoor planted in Ledger wallets behind an estimated $100 million crypto theft: how the implants evolved, who may be behind the compromised devices, the pivot to Ledger Flex and Stax, and Trezor’s reseller response.
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The OLED Burn-In Test: 30-Month Update
We've spent the last two and a half years burning in our 4K QD-OLED monitor, and it's time to take another look at how it's holding up. It's been six months since the last update, and in that time we've continued to burn in our MSI MPG 321URX monitor on purpose by using it exclusively for productivity work.
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The AI boom is making the world's cheapest smartphones disappear
Rest of World's Kinling Lo reports how AI data centers are soaking up memory chip supply, pushing phone makers to raise prices and drop their most affordable sub-$150 models, and what that means for people in lower-income markets who depend on cheap smartphones to get online.
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MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
What began as an MIT class project became an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors: the path from student prototype to regulated medical device, and what the team learned along the way.
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SIGSALY: Churchill's Top Secret Hotline To The President
The Imperial War Museums explain SIGSALY, the scrambled voice system that let Churchill speak securely with Roosevelt from a hidden room in the Churchill War Rooms during the Second World War.
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Lab on a Contact Lens Can Measure Stress Through Serotonin
IEEE Spectrum covers a smart contact lens that aims to measure serotonin as a stress biomarker, part of a broader push toward continuous body-chemistry sensing.
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M5 Ultra Mac Studio Review: The Dream Mac for Local AI Agents
Federico Viticci reviews the M5 Ultra Mac Studio with 256 GB RAM—why it is a dream machine for local AI agents, what workloads it unlocks, and where it still falls short.
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How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip
On 25 August, OpenAI fully unveiled Jalapeño, the company’s debut AI accelerator chip. Jalapeño delivers up to 13.4 petaflops of 4-bit compute and accesses 232 gigabytes of the most advanced memory available, linking to it at a blazing 15.4 terabytes per second. Benchmarks cited by OpenAI show that Jalapeño can reduce end-to-end latency (the time between prompt to last token) by up to 3.6 times when compared to Nvidia’s GB300—a chip the company currently relies on—and do so while consuming less power. Whether these figures translate into real-world gains once Jalapeño…
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12 Best-Selling Zigbee Temperature Sensors Tested
SmartHomeScene tests 12 best-selling Zigbee temperature and humidity sensors under $15 from Aqara, Sonoff, Tuya, Thirdreality, Zemismart and Moes head to head, covering Zigbee2MQTT pairing, temperature and humidity accuracy, low-temperature fridge benchmarks, and which sensors are worth buying.
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