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FCC Highlights Industry Backing for Opening 800 MHz Cellular Band to Drones
The FCC has pointed to support from drone makers, wireless carriers and industry groups ahead of a vote on letting commercial drones use additional cellular spectrum.
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Reach Power Flies Drone 10 Hours on Wireless Power Beaming Without GPS
Reach Power says a quadcopter flew autonomously for 10 hours, powered wirelessly by a beam that it switched on and off as needed. The demonstration was streamed live to participants at the Pentagon.
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Custom RISC-V Processor Powers Retro Gaming System on an FPGA
A maker has built a retro gaming system around a custom-designed RISC-V processor running on an inexpensive FPGA board.
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Qwenputer: A RISC-V CPU Compiled Into the Weights of Qwen3.5
A developer has built a model in which a working RISC-V processor is embedded directly in the weights of a stock Qwen 3.5 4B. The model runs arithmetic and small programs without any external tools.
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A Kubernetes rollout passed in two minutes, then pods crashed at minute five
A delivery tracking API release showed as successful in Kubernetes, but its new pods began failing five minutes later. The team explains why its checks missed the problem.
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Syl Explores Compile-Time Dependent Types With a Modal Type System
A developer’s experimental language, Syl, aims to bring dependent types to systems programming by encoding compile-time computation in a modal type system.
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Arduino Robot Uses SLAM to Map and Navigate Its Surroundings
A hobbyist project shows an Arduino-powered car building a map of its environment while tracking its own position.
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Round ESP32 Display Turns Into a Smart Kitchen-Style Timer
A open-source countdown timer built on a round touchscreen CrowPanel shows how a rotary dial can make setting time intuitive.
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Type Server Protocol: A JSON-RPC Interface for Python Type Analysis
Microsoft’s experimental Type Server Protocol (TSP) gives editors and tools a standard JSON-RPC way to query Python type-analysis data from a type server.
