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How to Assign Brightness Keys in Ubuntu 16.04 and Greater
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CHUWI LapBook 14.1 Windows 10 Firmware, Drivers, and BIOS
In case you’ve installed another operating system like Ubuntu on CHUWI Lapbook 14.1 laptop, and want to re-install Windows 10, CHUWI has released Windows 10 firmware, drivers, and LapBook 14.1...
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Dride is a Voice Controlled Dashcam Driving Assistant Powered by a Ras
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Janz Tec emPC-A/RPI3 is an Industrial Embedded Controller Based on Ras
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Baikal T1 BFK 1.6 MIPS Development Board Tested with OpenWrt
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EU funded AXIOM Board is Powered by Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ FPGA + ARM
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9Tripod X3399 SoM and Development Board are Powered by Rockchip RK3399 Hexa Core Processor
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Dragino OLG01 Outdoor Single Channel LoRa Gateway Runs OpenWrt, Suppor
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How to Use CHIP Board as a Linux Printer & Scanner Server
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Realtek RTD1295 SoC and Zidoo X9S TV Box Patchsets for Initial Mainlin
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STMicro Introduces STM32 LoRaWAN Discovery Board & I-NUCLEO-LWAN2 STM3
STMicroelectronics and Mouser have launched two new products with LoRa connectivity: STM32 LoRaWAN Discovery Board with an STM32L072 ARM Cortex M0+ MCU and Semtech SX1276 transceiver, and...
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Goblin 2 Arduino Compatible IoT Board Includes SIM5320A 3G & GPS Module
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Trenz Electronic TE0808 UltraSOM+ is a Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU9EG System-on-Module
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SBCs: Inforce 6640, iWave iW-RainboW-G25S, and DragonBoard 820c
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Linux 4.10 Release – Main Changes, ARM & MIPS Architectures
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RJCLIP Repairs Ethernet RJ45 Clips in Seconds
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9Tripod X3399 SoM and Development Board are Powered by Rockchip RK3399 Hexa Core Processor
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$175 Bben MN17A Celeron N3450 Apollo Lake Mini PC Comes with an mSATA SSD Slot
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MYD-C437x-PRU Development Board Leverages TI Sitara AM437x Programmabl
MYIR Technologies launched MYC-C437x system-on-module based on TI Sitara AM437X processor, and the corresponding MYD-C437x development board at the end of 2015, but the latter did not make use of the...
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GPD Pocket Cherry Trail 7a€³ Portable Computer Runs Ubuntu 16.04 or Windows 10 (Crowdfunding)
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$369 CHUWI Hi13 2-in-1 Windows 10 Tablet is Equipped with a 3000×2000 Display, Supports Ubuntu / Linux
I’ve recently reviewed CHUWI LapBook 14.1 laptop powered by an Intel Apollo Lake Celeron N3450 quad core processor, and found it to be a perfectly usable entry-level laptop with a few caveats...
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How to Upgrade to Linux 4.8 in Ubuntu 16.04.2
I had read from several news sources that Ubuntu 16.04.2 would come with Linux 4.8. My system was upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04.1 to Ubuntu 16.04.2 this week-end, but I still had Linux 4.4....
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Xiaomi Mi Box (US) Android TV TV Box Review
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Dolby Digital (AC3) US Patent Has Expired on February 1, 2017
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ODROID-XU4 Development Board Price Drops to $59, Now Supports Linux 4.
ODROID-XU4 development board powered by Samsung Exynos 5422 octa-core processor launched in summer 2015, but even after two years, it’s one of the fastest, if not the fastest, low cost...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 SBCs: Inforce 6640, iWave iW-RainboW-G25S, and
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Netgem SoundBox is a Speaker with Built-in Set-Top Box Features
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Android is great to consume content, but is a real pain to create content, as operation like copy/paste and multi-tasking you take for granted in desktop OS like Ubuntu or Windows are not well...
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Nintendo NES Classic Mini is a smaller replica of Nintendo NES with an HDMI output, and powered by an Allwinner R16 SoC. Nintendo has released a model with the same or similar hardware, but a...
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Amazon EC2 F1 Instances Put Xilinx Virtex Ultrascale+ FPGA Boards into the Cloud
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Banana Pi BPI-M2 Magic is an Allwinner R16 Development Board with LCD
Allwinner R16 is a quad core Cortex A7 processor found in Nintendo NES Classic Mini game console, but so far there was no development board based on the processor apart from Allwinner Parrot board...
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Goblin 2 Arduino Compatible IoT Board Includes SIM5320A 3G & GPS Module
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Trenz Electronic TE0808 UltraSOM+ is a Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU9EG System-on-Module
Xilinx Zynq Ultrascale+ ARM Cortex A53 + FPGA SoC have now started to show up in boards such as AXIOM Board based on Zynq Ultrascale+ ZU9EG. Price for the board has not been announced, and while a...
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Linux 4.10 Release – Main Changes, ARM & MIPS Architectures
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RJCLIP Repairs Ethernet RJ45 Clips in Seconds
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9Tripod X3399 SoM and Development Board are Powered by Rockchip RK3399 Hexa Core Processor
9Tripod (ä¹é¼Žåˆ›å±•) has just launched X3399 system-on-module powered by Rockchip RK3399 hexa-core Cortex A72/A53 processor, and as well as a corresponding development board for people wanted to get...
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SigFox Launches Spot’it Low Cost GPS-Free IoT Geolocation Service
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