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July 29, 2017 Computers 101: Can You Identify These?
Can you guess what devices are in the images below? The images come in pairs. The first will be a close up. Try to guess what you are looking at before scrolling down to the next one, which will show a zoomed-out version. What is this storage device? (hint: storage) Magnetic core memory was the main […]
COMPUTERS July 29, 2017 A quest for the mother of all computers
Kevin Resch, acting director of the Institute for Quantum Computing, overlooks a light experiment in the quantum optics lab. – Vanessa Tignanelli,Record staff Martin Laforest, head of scientific outreach at the Institute for Quantum Computing, expects to see quantum supremacy within five years. – Vanessa Tignanelli,Record staff Martin Laforest, head of scientific outreach at IQC, […]
COMPUTERS July 28, 2017 People are already replacing their desktop computers with smartglasses
In the tech industry, “dogfooding” is a common term that describes when companies make their employees use the software and hardware they make, so that bugs can be caught and everyday improvements can be dreamed up before the product ever hits the market. Recently, the most powerful companies in Silicon Valley have shown significant interest in augmented […]
COMPUTERS July 27, 2017 Wasserman Schultz kept paying aide suspected of stealing House computers | 10 governors slam Obamacare ‘skinny repeal’
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has not given a detailed explanation about why she continued to employ a former aide until she fired him on Tuesday — after he was arrested on bank-fraud charges while attempting to board a flight to Pakistan. McClatchy reports computer expert Imran Awan, who worked for congressional Democrats, was accused of stealing […]
COMPUTERS July 20, 2017 The best computers for students
What would a back-to-school guide be without a healthy dose of computer recs? Other than a small dorm TV, perhaps, it’s the single most expensive investment you’re likely to make as you begin college — and if you’re graduating or pursuing an advanced degree, it’s possible you’ve been waiting patiently for a reason to upgrade.As […]
July 20, 2017 The best computers for students
What would a back-to-school guide be without a healthy dose of computer recs? Other than a small dorm TV, perhaps, it’s the single most expensive investment you’re likely to make as you begin college — and if you’re graduating or pursuing an advanced degree, it’s possible you’ve been waiting patiently for a reason to upgrade.As […]
COMPUTERS July 17, 2017 Windows 10 update BLOCK – Support for some computers DROPPED, are YOU affected?
Some Windows 10 devices are no longer able to upgrade to the latest version of the operating system Some Windows machines that received the free upgrade to Windows 10 – less than two years ago – have now been officially blocked from future updates to the next-generation operating system. According to ZDnet, a number of two-in-one PCs announced […]
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July 14, 2017 Scrap dealer finds Apollo-era NASA computers in dead engineer’s basement
A pair of Apollo-era NASA computers and hundreds of mysterious tape reels have been discovered in a deceased engineer’s basement in Pittsburgh, according to a NASA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report released in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. Most of the tapes are unmarked, but the majority of the rest […]
COMPUTERS July 13, 2017 Computers are getting more expensive, and here’s why
Prices for memory chips have jumped during the past year, and those increases are starting to make their way to consumers. The world-wide personal computer industry saw another quarterly decline in sales during the second quarter, as price hikes caused by memory chip scarcity scared some consumers away. According to data for the second quarter […]
COMPUTERS July 10, 2017 Computers Are on the Verge of a Quantum Leap
Conceptual artwork representing how data may be controlled and stored in a quantum computer. ALFRED PASIEKA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY Moore’s Law is a computing term coined by co-founder of Intel Gordon Moore, who predicted the pace of the modern digital world would exponentially increase biannually. This predicted rapid growth of computers has remained constant over the past several decades, but […]
COMPUTERS July 1, 2017 Light-Powered Computers Brighten AI’s Future
The idea of building a computer that uses light rather than electricity goes back more than half a century. “Optical computing” has long promised faster performance while consuming much less energy than conventional electronic computers. The prospect of a practical optical computer has languished, however, as scientists have struggled to make the light-based components needed […]
COMPUTERS June 22, 2017 Wikileaks Docs Show How the CIA Allegedly Infected Offline Computers
There’s sometimes a way around an air-gap. Hacking air-gapped machines—computers that are not connected to the internet, so theoretically less vulnerable—is always pretty interesting. On Wednesday, Wikileaks published a series of alleged CIA documents that supposedly show how the intelligence agency’s malware was designed to infect these sort of targets. Naturally, the documents indicate how […]
