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Ultimate Camouflage Tech Mimics Octopus In Scientific First (slashdot.org)

2026-01-09 | get Camouflage System → | tags: color, film, independently

152.

Blu-ray turns 20 years old: The optical disc that refuses to fade away (techspot.com)

2026-01-06 | get Blu-ray Disc → | tags: blu ray, consumer, consumer electronics

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This smart lock with infinite battery life at CES is my favorite home gadget so far (zdnet.com)

2026-01-06 | by Maria Diaz | get Smart Lock → | tags: charging, lock, lockin

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These unassuming smart locks have a useful charging feature I've yet to see on the market (zdnet.com)

2026-01-05 | by Maria Diaz | get Smart Lock → | tags: charging, lock, lockin

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Blu-ray hits 20 years old, and it isn't dead yet — optical disc format was introduced to the public at CES 2006 (tomshardware.com)

2026-01-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Blu-ray Disc → | tags: blu ray, format, format war

156.

All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-31 | get Synapse → | tags: chip, chip large, intelligent

157.

Start-up plans to use terahertz radio frequencies for communication between servers instead of copper or optical connections — radio-based interconnections offer 1.6 TB/s using half the volume of copper (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-30 | by Anton Shilov | get Terahertz → | tags: cables, copper, credit

158.

Fast GPU Interconnect over Radio (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | by Samuel K. Moore | get NVIDIA Drive → | tags: cable, cables, center

159.

Show HN: Phantas – A browser-based binaural strobe engine (Web Audio API) (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-28 | get Binaural Strobe Engine → | tags: audio, audio headphones, beat

160.

AI Data Centers Demand More Than Copper Can Deliver (spectrum.ieee.org)

2025-12-27 | by Samuel K. Moore | get Data Center → | tags: cable, cables, center

161.

World first: This Ultra phone will raise the bar with 200MP continuous optical zoom (androidauthority.com)

2025-12-23 | get Camera → | tags: camera, continuous, sensor

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Russia has reportedly improved the range of its jam-proof optical drones to over 40 miles — purported Chinese-Russian collaborative production imagery reveals dramatically increased tethered drone range (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Mark Tyson | get Optical drones → | tags: drones, fiber, optical

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Programmable 200 GOPS Hopfield-inspired photonic Ising machine (feeds.nature.com)

2025-12-17 | by Al-Kayed | get Photonic Ising machine → | tags: ising, optical, photonic

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Photonic latch memory could enable optical processor caches that run up to 60 GHz, twenty times faster than standard caches — optical SRAM stores and outputs data entirely as light, but density challenges remain (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-12 | by Luke James | get Optical RAM → | tags: latch, light, memory

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Marvell’s $5.5B Celestial AI acquisition expands its role in AI data center hardware — firm now positioned to deliver next-gen optical interconnects (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-09 | by Luke James | get Optical Interconnects → | tags: celestial, marvell, memory

166.

Optical Context Compression Is Just (Bad) Autoencoding (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-09 | get Neural Style Transfer → | tags: comments

167.

A compact camera built using an optical mouse (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-03 | by Jeremy Gray | get Optical Mouse Camera → | tags: camera, computer, dycus

168.

Guy Built a Compact Camera Using an Optical Mouse (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-03 | by Jeremy Gray | get Camera → | tags: camera, computer, dycus

169.

New study shows how AI could unlock deeper heart data from the Apple Watch’s optical sensor (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-03 | by Marcus Mendes | get Optical Sensor → | tags: apple, cardiac, cardiovascular

170.

Marvell to acquire Celestial AI for as much as $5.5 billion (cnbc.com)

2025-12-02 | by Kif Leswing | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: billion, celestial, chips

171.

Industry's first TSMC COUPE-based optical connectivity solution for next-gen AI chips displayed — Alchip and Ayar Labs show future silicon photonics device (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-01 | by Anton Shilov | get Silicon Photonics Device → | tags: alchip, ayar, ayar labs

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Shape-shifting electrodes tune optical-frequency converter (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-26 | by Srinivasan | get Neuralink → | tags: et al, light, nature

173.

A single beam of light runs AI with supercomputer power (sciencedaily.com)

2025-11-16 | get Neural Network → | tags: complex, light, method

174.

New Chinese optical quantum chip allegedly 1,000x faster than Nvidia GPUs for processing AI workloads - firm reportedly producing 12,000 wafers per year (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-14 | by Aaron Klotz | get Quantum Chip → | tags: chip, chips, computers

175.

Kyocera develops wireless underwater communications tech that uses lasers to hit 5.2 Gbps — optical approach advances underwater drone comms, boasts blistering speeds at short distances (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-12 | by Jowi Morales | get Optical → | tags: communications, high, undersea

176.

Dispersion-engineered multipass optical parametric amplification (feeds.nature.com)

2025-11-05 | by Nägele | get Optical Parametric Amplifier → | tags: amplification, bandwidth, concept

177.

Hobbyist builds lo-fi camera from an old optical mouse (techspot.com)

2025-11-04 | get Camera → | tags: adns, adns old, camera

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Hobbyist builds lo-fi camera using a disassembled optical mouse (techspot.com)

2025-11-04 | get Optical Mouse Camera → | tags: adns, adns old, camera

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3D printing enthusiast creates camera with a gutted optical mouse's sensor — lo-fi 30x30 pixel camera took 65 hours to build (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-04 | by Mark Tyson | get Camera → | tags: camera, dycus, mouse

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AI at light speed: How glass fibers could replace silicon brains (sciencedaily.com)

2025-11-03 | get Glass fibers → | tags: fiber, light, nonlinear