a-closer-look-at-the-piper-pa-47-private-jet

The Piper PA-47 PiperJet, an ambitious project from the renowned aircraft manufacturer Piper Aircraft, stands as a testament to how the evolution of the very light business jet design has evolved and how the business aviation market has evolved. Announced in the mid-2000s, the PiperJet was intended to be aContinue Reading

don't-expect-a-raspberry-pi-6-until-at-least-2028

If you’ve been holding out for a next-gen Raspberry Pi, the wait just got a lot longer. Eben Upton joined fellow Raspberry Pi honchos, James Adams, the CTO of Hardware Engineering, and Gordon Hollingworth, the CTO of Software Engineering, for a Reddit AMA on r/engineering last week, and the PiContinue Reading

i-tried-firefox-smart-window,-and-it-won-me-over-a-little

Mozilla has received plenty of flak for adding AI features to Firefox, like a chatbot in the sidebar, automatic alt text in PDFs, AI-powered tab group suggestions, and whatnot. It’s been one thing after another, and while people might appreciate that these can be disabled, the sheer pace of theContinue Reading

vision-marine-files-patent-application-for-electronically-controlled-reverse-thrust-in-electric-outboards

Vision Marine Technologies has filed its 16th US patent application, covering an electronic reverse-thrust architecture for its E-Motion electric marine outboard platform. The application addresses directional control via motor reversal rather than the mechanical shifting systems used in conventional combustion outboards. Unlike a combustion engine, an electric motor can reverseContinue Reading

nexperia-to-manufacture-next-gen-power-mosfets-at-polar-semiconductor’s-minnesota-foundry

Nexperia and Polar Semiconductor have announced a manufacturing collaboration under which Nexperia’s next-generation power MOSFETs will be produced at Polar’s wafer foundry in Bloomington, Minnesota. The partnership aims to secure stable US-based supply capacity for Nexperia’s MOSFET portfolio across automotive, AI server infrastructure, robotics and industrial applications. Polar’s Minnesota facilityContinue Reading

canonical’s-workshop:-sandboxed,-reproducible-dev-environments

Canonical has released Workshop, a new open-source tool to create reproducible development environments with a single command. Using YAML files, the same development setup can be reproduced across different hardware and devices, reducing dependency headaches and configuration drift. Environments in Workshop are built from SDKs (packages that install languages, frameworksContinue Reading