20
May
Meet Earl, your solar-powered backcountry survival tablet
Sure, you can wrap your high-tech smartphone in a bombproof case, but between its high power demands and lack of ability to charge itself, and its inherent fragility, you might be working against its own design by trying to put it to a use that was never intended.
But Earl, well, Earl is different.
17
May
Google and NASA to share quantum computer
Google has already developed quantum machine algorithms that will makes searches on mobile devices more energy-efficient.
29
Mar
Biological transistor may bring computers to life
Living cells could be made into mini-computers, thanks to genetic devices called transcriptors.
27
Feb
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Feb
19
Dec
IBM predicts computers that will smell, taste, see, hear and touch
Cognitive computing will dramatically change our daily lives in just five years, say IBM experts.
19
Nov
Hospital bacterial colonization tracked by supercomputers
Researchers will feed 12,000 swabs of bacteria to supercomputers that will sequence DNA in the swabs.
07
Nov
Self-assembling particles to boost speed of computer chips.
Scientists have created new kinds of particles, 1/100th the diameter of a human hair, that spontaneously assemble themselves into structures resembling molecules made from atoms.
Particles engineered to spontaneously self-assemble like atoms forming molecules could give rise to new high-tech materials, leading to better optical displays and faster computer chips, researchers say.
The scientists say they could manipulate these bonds to create colloids of a specific color, size, chemical function or electrical conductivity. This, in turn, could lead to the production of new materials, such as photonic crystals to improve optical displays and boost the speed of computer chips.
16
Oct
New Apple MacBook gets EPEAT Gold certification, but critics cry foul
The ultrathin laptop has been called one of the “least repairable, least recyclable” computers on the market.
11
Sep
Why is Emma Watson the most dangerous celebrity online?
Ten points for Gryffindor!
“Harry Potter” series female lead Emma Watson is this year’s most dangerous celebrity, according to digital security firm McAfee.
Search-engine queries for her name or image are more likely to lead to malware or other forms of Internet nastiness than queries for any other celebrity.
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