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Powering the BeagleConnect QuadESC motor-control board, the BeagleConnect Torque is an open-source controller module developed by BeagleBoard.org for robotics, industrial control, and connected sensing applications. Based on Texas Instruments’ AM13E23019 microcontroller, it features a 200 MHz Arm Cortex-M33 processor, CAN FD connectivity, and expansion interfaces for custom embedded systems.

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Rockchip RK3668 Targets Edge AI with 44 TOPS NPU and PCIe 5.0

Rockchip’s upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU. The SoC integrates a 44 TOPS NPU, LPDDR6 memory support, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe 5.0, SATA 3.1, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, targeting edge AI, networking, industrial automation, and multimedia systems.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 22, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gemini Links 21/07/2024: Last of Old Computer Challenge and Forth Language
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  2. Links 21/07/2024: Climate, Politics, and More Squashed Patents
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  3. Only a Quarter of Web Requests in Micronesia Traced Back to Microsoft Windows (It Used to be Well Over 95%)
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  4. Your F.U.D. is Already Showing, Microsoft
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  5. Andrew Feinstein on Why Freeing Julian Assange is About the Freedom of the Press in General
    Feinstein points out that truth itself is being challenged by people who value power, not truth, and typically seek to do things like sell arms and start proxy wars
  6. In Palau, Windows Has Fallen to 16%
    15 years ago Windows was at 98%
  7. Gemini is Blossoming and More Capsules Are Self-Signing, Rejecting the Defunct and Falsely-Marketed Certificate Authority (CA) Model
    Gemini is still very fast, not only because objects are lightweight but the protocol itself - i.e. the underlying logic - is as simple as it needs to be and only as complex as it must be
  8. Gemini Links 21/07/2024: New Garden and New Gemini Arrivals
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  9. Links 21/07/2024: Extreme Heat and Fortescue Layoffs
    Links for the day
  10. GNU/Linux Lifted Up 0.03% Closer to 4.5% "Market Share" (or 50% More Than a Year Ago)
    How many businesses and homes are permanently giving up on Windows after recent days' events?
  11. High Adoption Rates for GNU/Linux in Albania, According to statCounter
    Albania has been a central point of some GNOME and diversity scandals
  12. It'll Soon Be Half a Decade Since COVID-19's Breakout, We Still Need Verified Facts (Not Corporate Dogma) and Proper Media Reporting
    COVID-19 has meant different things to different people
  13. For the First Time, Microsoft's "Market Share" in North Macedonia Falls to Only a Quarter
    Microsoft only has Windows
  14. Evan Versus Julian
    Published by Julian Assange's wife some hours ago
  15. What The Internet Can Achieve When Put in the Hands of the Good People and Not Censored by the People Who Already Control the Mass Media
    albeit Wikileaks put that in social control media owned and controlled by oligarchs
  16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, July 20, 2024
    IRC logs for Saturday, July 20, 2024
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. [Meme] Hate Speech
    This is also what makes TikTok so dangerous
  19. Shark-infected Water on the Web
    Don't turn Gemini into another "Web"
  20. OpenHarmony, HarmonyOS Next, Deepin, Kylin, and openKylin: How China's Various Manoeuvres Away From Windows Get Covered in the West
    Kylin was openly based on Ubuntu
  21. WikiLeaks Wonders: Major Leaks That Shook the Worlds
    Published 14 hours ago

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

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    1517 /n/2024/07/17/Red_Hat_Keeps_Behaving_Like_a_Microsoft_Reseller_for_Proprietar.shtml
    1328 /n/2024/07/21/High_Adoption_Rates_for_GNU_Linux_in_Albania_According_to_statC.shtml
    1310 /n/2024/07/16/Backlash_and_Negative_Press_After_Microsoft_Tells_Diversity_Equ.shtml
    1148 /n/2024/07/17/Microsoft_s_Bing_Falls_to_Fourth_in_the_Europe_Asia_Based_Turke.shtml
    1141 /n/2024/07/17/UEFI_Secure_Boot_Once_Again_Bricking_PCs_and_Fake_Security_Mode.shtml
    1076 /n/2024/07/21/For_the_First_Time_Microsoft_s_Market_Share_in_North_Macedonia_.shtml
    1056 /n/2023/12/01/New_Report_Provides_Numerical_Evidence_That_Google_Hired_Too_Ma.shtml
    1027 /n/2024/07/14/Microsoft_Windows_Down_to_23_in_Spain.shtml

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