Crowbar circuits have long been the go-to safeguard against overvoltage conditions, prized for their simplicity and ...

Transitioning into industry, Dr. Saravanan applied the mindset she honed in quantum research to large-scale computing systems. As a systems engineer, she has worked on backend ser ...

A long standing mystery in spintronics has revolved around why some promising crystalline materials stubbornly refuse to ...

SPADs employ an avalanche process to generate significant current from a single photon. That results in higher power ...

Public records clearly shows that for the past 25 years, CERN has repeatedly built inadequate FPGA-based Level-1 Triggers, necessitating multiple rebuilds. During the Higgs boson discovery ...

Testing a regulator all the way down to zero volts to see how it behaves and finding an output level, below which bad things ...

Quantinuum’s new Helios system is being called the most powerful quantum computer 2025, featuring 98 physical qubits in a unique ‘junction ion trap’ design. This advanced design allows for better ...

As Andy Hertzfeld describes on folklore.org, early Apple employee Chris Espinoza drew a calculator for the Macintosh. He showed it to Steve Jobs. Jobs’s response? “Well,” he said, “it’s a start, but ...

As somebody who has the same obsessive attention to visual detail as Jobs and who has never been able to exercise it fully in order to build elegant software despite being naturally inclined, I really ...

In February 1982, Apple employee #8 Chris Espinosa faced a problem that would feel familiar to anyone who has ever had a micromanaging boss: Steve Jobs wouldn’t stop critiquing his calculator design ...

Founder and CEO Sergiy Nesterenko, a former SpaceX engineer, decided to start Quilter to automate the electronics design process and help business save time and labor costs. Welcome back to The Prompt ...