You can safely ignore those viral videos showing a phone’s LED flash melting plastic

Press its flashlight against a black trash bag, wait for the plastic to melt, and post the result like Samsung just shipped a pocket-sized laser cutter. Viral videos showing Samsung phones burning ...

Samsung phone flashlights melting plastic? Viral videos don't tell the full story

Viral videos show Samsung Galaxy S26 and Galaxy S25 flashlights melting plastic, but tests reveal iPhones can do it too.
IEEE

A 6.2b-ENOB 2.5 GS/s Flash-and-VCO-Based Subranging ADC Using a Residue Shifting Technique

Abstract: This letter presents a 7-bit pipelined subranging ADC that integrates a 3-bit flash ADC with a ring VCO-based quantizer. A resistor-ladder-based residue shifter (RLRS) replaces traditional ...
IEEE

On-Chip Learning in Vertical NAND Flash Memory Using Forward–Forward Algorithm

Abstract: Unlike the previous ON-chip learning using backward propagation (BP) in vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash memory, a new approach utilizing only forward propagation (FP) is proposed. ON-chip ...
Digital Camera World

Instagram's retro flash filter is both viral and controversial. But I’m a photographer, and that retro flash look is actually easy to create with almost any camera

Using AI to create a retro look feels like an oxymoron, but that viral retro flash look is actually incredibly easy to do ...