From Nest to the Misfit Wearables, hardware is back in a big way. And along with the lower barrier to entry thanks to cheaper components, crowdfunding, rapid prototyping courtesy of 3-D printing and ...

Late in 2015, Bronx native Nisan Lerea and a friend toiled away in Lerea’s parents’ basement on a waterjet cutter, an effort that began as a senior thesis project at the University of Pennsylvania’s ...

Hardware acceleration uses specialized hardware components of your computer to perform certain tasks more efficiently than the system’s main processor (CPU) alone could. This is particularly useful ...

Today, Pittsburgh startup accelerator AlphaLab announced AlphaLab Gear, a new accelerator program for hardware and robotics startups. AlphaLab Gear will be longer than the traditional accelerator, ...

Europe has gotten itself another hardware-based startup accelerator; this time Estonia is flying the hardware flag. Focusing on hardware in combination with software, Buildit is a new 3 month ...

Niobium has raised $23 million for its second-generation fully homomorphic encryption hardware acceleration solution.

Reps from companies in AlphaLab Gear's new hardware accelerator. Time flies when it’s the shortest month of the year, but February still saw plenty of movement in the Pittsburgh startup scene. Catch ...

A technical paper titled “SpikeHard: Efficiency-Driven Neuromorphic Hardware for Heterogeneous Systems-on-Chip” was published by researchers at Columbia University. “Neuromorphic computing is an ...

A technical paper titled “VLSI Design and FPGA Implementation of an NTT Hardware Accelerator for Homomorphic SEAL-Embedded Library” was published by researchers at University of Pisa. “Homomorphic ...

Hardware acceleration enables you to shift the audio tasks from the CPU to the sound card so that the CPU isn't slowed down by audio requests and so that games and other audio-intensive applications ...

I was visiting San Francisco, scratching my head for something cool to cover for Hackaday. When it hit me: this is one of the leading cities in the world for starting new companies. It’s known for its ...