MIT Tech Review – Breakthrough Technologies for 2024
Each year, the MIT Technology Review takes a look at “promising technologies posed to have a real impact on the world.” And each year I enjoy taking a look through their picks. Not surprisingly, the first technology cited was AI. After all, something AI-related has had a spot on pretty much every future/breakthrough tech list […]
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Battery Progress
Across the boards in the tech world, things do tend to get smaller, faster, cheaper, and smarter.
So it has been in the battery world.
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Smart vending machines (really smart). Who knew?
Vending machines have gotten smart. Really smart. Facial recognition smart.
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ARM vs. RISC-V
At Critical Link, we spend a lot of time thinking about processors, and some of that thinking is around ARM vs. RISC-V Instruction Set Architectures, or ISA’s, which are basically the go-between between hardware and software.
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Space age technology
I was a science-y, tech-y kid I was, of course, interested in the space program. Science-y, tech-y kids grow up to be science-y, tech-y adults, so naturally, I kept an eye on the February 22 lunar landing of the Odysseus.
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Technology for the Heart
It’s Valentine’s Day, so thoughts naturally turn to matters of the heart. And at Critical Link, that means matters of cardiovascular technology.
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Second-hand reporting from CES 2024
Each year, I pay a vicarious visit to CES, the mega consumer technology show held in Las Vegas each January. So I worte about some of the products I didn’t see up close and personal
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What’s on the horizon for 2024
Nitin Dahad on embedded.com has his eyes on three embedded tech trends that AI's will be driving in 2024.
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A recap of the 2023 tech world
When the old year ends and the new year starts, I like to do both a backward look at what happened in the tech year in the past year, as well as what trends are emerging for the upcoming year. So I’ll ring this year in with a summary of a few articles I saw that recapped 2023.
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Holiday Greetings from Critical Link
Wishing you all a joyous holiday season, and a healthy and prosperous new year.
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