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SPARK Microsystems Partners with SteelSeries to Deliver 8K-Polling LE-UWB Wireless Gaming Mice

SPARK Microsystems has found a new use for its energy-efficient Low Energy Ultra Wideband (LE-UWB) communications technology: driving next-generation gaming peripherals, in partnership with SteelSeries.

"Conventional wireless connectivity compromises the performance metrics that matter most to competitive gamers," claims SPARK Microsystems Fares Mubarak, announcing the company's partnership with SteelSeries. "LE-UWB is the next evolution, and SteelSeries collaborated with SPARK to deliver a new industry-leading innovation and premium products that outperform gamers' expectations. That's powerful validation and proof positive that a generational transformation is underway in gaming connectivity."

SPARK's in-house LE-UWB technology is based on an impulse-radio ultra-wideband system, which it claims can deliver data rates of almost 41Mb/s while drawing as little as 1 nano-Joule (1nJ) per bit and with predictable latency of around 25µs for 1kb of data — leading the company to position it as "deterministic wireless." Gaming peripherals, by contrast, tend to use either Bluetooth Low Energy...

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The Pocket Advance nearly perfects my favorite Nintendo handheld

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Home Assistant says ‘Big tech ruined the cloud, so we’re out’

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The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software

AI has become remarkably good at making organizations move faster and more efficiently. The harder question is whether companies know where they should be going. As artificial intelligence moves deeper into everyday work, the competitive divide is beginning to shift from access to technology toward the quality of the decisions

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Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings

In California, an AI system will no longer be able to fire or discipline a worker on its own. Governor Gavin Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act on Wednesday, his office said. It was one of 13 AI bills he signed that day. The law, SB 947, bars employers

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The Pocket Advance nearly perfects my favorite Nintendo handheld

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The AI race is becoming a test of strategy, not just software

Newsom signs 13 AI bills, including a ban on AI-only firings