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Architecture and FPGA Implementation of Digital Time-to-Digital Converter for Sensing Applications
Zeinab Hijazi, Fatima Bzeih, Ali Ibrahim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08725 http…

Architecture and FPGA Implementation of Digital Time-to-Digital Converter for Sensing Applications
Many application domains face the challenges of high-power consumption and high computational demands, especially with the advancement in embedded machine learning and edge computing. Designing application-specific circuits is crucial to reducing hardware complexity and power consumption. In these perspectives, this paper presents the design of a Digital Time-to-Digital converter (DTDC) based on multiple delay line topologies. The DTDC is implemented in VHDL for the Xilinx Artix-7 AC701 FPGA de…

> Cambridge’s preservationists don’t just mount disks and hope for the best; they sample the raw magnetic signal itself. Specialized hardware, such as the KryoFlux and open-hardware Greaseweazle interfaces, captures the flux transitions — the tiny changes in polarity that encode data — and reconstructs the file structure later in software.

Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy disks
Cambridge’s 'Future Nostalgia' project is racing to save decades of digital history from vanishing floppy disks.

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency - Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars -

On Office Comfort and Energy Efficiency
Sweating or shivering 9 to 5 at work? Small business or home office? Get comfy, save money, cut carbon! #office #frugal #thermostatWars

Digital Quantum Simulation of Flat-Band and All-Bands-Flat Dynamics for Tunable Quantum Transport
Mrinal Kanti Giri, Pochung Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08734 https://

Digital Quantum Simulation of Flat-Band and All-Bands-Flat Dynamics for Tunable Quantum Transport
We study the dynamics on the flat-band (FB) and all-bands-flat (AFB) lattices using a digital quantum computer. By utilizing an advanced tensor network method to compress the quantum circuit, we overcome the intrinsic limitations of current noisy intermediate-scale quantum (NISQ) computers. This enables high-fidelity simulations of time evolution over extended timescales and various interesting dynamical behaviours are observed in our digital quantum simulation. We start from the quantum simula…

Enhancing Systematic Interoperability: Convergences and Mismatches between Web 3.0 and the EU Data Act
Linyi Xu, Zihao Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07356 https://

Enhancing Systematic Interoperability: Convergences and Mismatches between Web 3.0 and the EU Data Act
Interoperability is increasingly recognised as a foundational principle for fostering innovation, competition, and user autonomy in the evolving digital ecosystem. Existing research on interoperability predominantly focuses either on technological interoperability itself or on the legal regulations concerning interoperability, with insufficient exploration of their interdisciplinary intersection. This paper compares the technological interoperability in Web 3.0 with the theoretical framework of…

Chat Control: quando la protezione dei minori sfida la riservatezza digitale
#ChatControl UE: la nuova proposta di regolamento che rischia di compromettere la #privacy digitale. Scansione preventiva dei messaggi per proteggere i minori vs. sorveglianza di massa. Analisi dei rischi e …

Just watched #CaroleCadwalladr "This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOoT8AbkNE
She takes on Big Tech. She denounced Cambridge Analyt…

Sparse Transformer for Ultra-sparse Sampled Video Compressive Sensing
Miao Cao, Siming Zheng, Lishun Wang, Ziyang Chen, David Brady, Xin Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08228 ht…

Sparse Transformer for Ultra-sparse Sampled Video Compressive Sensing
Digital cameras consume ~0.1 microjoule per pixel to capture and encode video, resulting in a power usage of ~20W for a 4K sensor operating at 30 fps. Imagining gigapixel cameras operating at 100-1000 fps, the current processing model is unsustainable. To address this, physical layer compressive measurement has been proposed to reduce power consumption per pixel by 10-100X. Video Snapshot Compressive Imaging (SCI) introduces high frequency modulation in the optical sensor layer to increase effe…

Why the East Antarctic interior is warming faster and earlier than its coastal areas #Antarctic

Why the East Antarctic interior is warming faster and earlier than its coastal areas
Scientists have confirmed that East Antarctica's interior is warming faster than its coastal areas and identified the cause. A 30-year study, published in Nature Communications and led by Nagoya University's Naoyuki Kurita, has traced this warming to increased warm air flow triggered by temperature changes in the Southern Indian Ocean.

MCTED: A Machine-Learning-Ready Dataset for Digital Elevation Model Generation From Mars Imagery
Rafa{\l} Osadnik, Pablo G\'omez, Eleni Bohacek, Rickbir Bahia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08027

MCTED: A Machine-Learning-Ready Dataset for Digital Elevation Model Generation From Mars Imagery
This work presents a new dataset for the Martian digital elevation model prediction task, ready for machine learning applications called MCTED. The dataset has been generated using a comprehensive pipeline designed to process high-resolution Mars orthoimage and DEM pairs from Day et al., yielding a dataset consisting of 80,898 data samples. The source images are data gathered by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter using the CTX instrument, providing a very diverse and comprehensive coverage of the …