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IRZ Tech archive, page 8.
FlowForm prints passive reflectors for roughly $2 each and uses them to create new mmWave paths through a room. The measured gain is real, but much narrower than “Wi-Fi twice as fast.”
Wasm now has SIMD, exceptions, 64-bit memory and GC. Yet a simple Web API call still crosses JavaScript. Mozilla wants Components to move that glue into the browser itself.
The Compute Module 5 jig turns manual provisioning into a repeatable cycle and can create device-specific security state along the way.
Scantic trains Gaussian Splats directly on an iPhone. The useful number is not 1,000×, but what its developer actually moved from a desktop workflow into the phone.
OCL v1.1 lets non-commercial users modify and share, but blocks commercial replication by default. Its new plugins only add more conditions. Under OSHWA’s definition, this is not open-source hardware.
PINE64 released the full PinePhone STEP assembly. IRZ opened its 84.2 MB: 265 products and 927 assembly occurrences, in a 2020 geometry export rather than the native parametric CAD.
Rice etched nine MAX families into MXenes in under 30 seconds. The raw data tell the more useful story: the reaction becomes almost instantaneous, while the full process keeps a second clock.
Heart X1 flew for 27 minutes with more than one megawatt of electric propulsion. The flight validates integration at regional-aircraft scale, not the 200 km range promised for the future ES-30.
The CMP 170HX, an Ethereum mining card that sank to $250, carries A100 silicon and HBM2e throttled by firmware. The open-source cmpunlocker tool wakes up the 64GB soldered on the board.
Firefox 151 ships the Web Serial API: flashing CircuitPython, reading a USB power meter or configuring ESPHome no longer requires Chromium. The interesting part is the permission model, not the compatibility checkbox.