It’s about time for an update for Hackaday’s latest project – a modern retrocomputer based on the Motorola 68000 CPU. In this update, we’ll be taking a look at the enclosure, the backplane itself, and ...

Ever-increasing volumes of traffic strain the capacities of computing and communications gear. Boosting port speeds from 100Mbps Ethernet to 1Gbps Ethernet – and now to 10Gbps Ethernet – on servers, ...

You may have heard the buzz by now about a young startup that’s being fueled by some pretty impressive star power, including the likes of the one and only Lady Gaga. The project, called Backplane, was ...

You know what no one wants to do? Join a brand’s standalone social network. The problem is that it took Lady Gaga’s startup Backplane four years, multiple founders, and over $14 million to figure that ...

Just when things were starting to look up in Silicon Valley with the announcement of 2016’s first tech I.P.O., another start-up has met its demise. Backplane, the Lady Gaga–backed and promoted ...

A common method to increase the brightness of OLEDs while maintaining a long lifespan is the use of multiple stacked OLEDs. Scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS have ...

The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope’s hardware development. The ...

High-speed interconnects may be used to link chips, boards or systems. The distance between target devices is the major difference. Chip-to-chip interconnects normally span less than 20 inches, are ...

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tianma, a leading global manufacturer of flat panel displays, is presenting a 108-inch 4K Micro-LED display featuring the world's first all-laser mass transfer ...

This is the last Special Report that Ray Weiss, who passed away on New Year's Eve, prepared for us. We will miss his insight, his expertise, and his friendship. (See our tribute to him in our February ...