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Minnesota company Upper Story has sent us its Turing Tumble, a fascinating educational toy that quietly tricks kids into inventing binary logic computers using nothing more than tiny marbles dropping through a series of clicky-clacky plastic pieces.Con… Continue reading Review: Turing Tumble lets kids build complex marble-powered computers
Affordable laptops from Lenovo, Acer, HP, and Samsung prove you don’t need to spend big for a laptop that rival Apple’s MacBook. Continue reading The Best Budget Laptops Under $800 (That Still Get the Job Done)
Intel has demonstrated a prototype of the next generation of its Thunderbolt interface. The new connection will be up to three times faster than the existing Thunderbolt 4 when it debuts next year.Continue ReadingCategory: Electronics, ScienceTags: Com… Continue reading Intel’s next-gen Thunderbolt doubles and triples transfer speeds
Quantum computing requires extremely cold temperatures. To that end, IBM has built and demonstrated a huge “super-fridge” codenamed Project Goldeneye that chills things colder than outer space.Continue ReadingCategory: Computers, TechnologyTags: Quantu… Continue reading IBM builds huge super-fridge colder than space to chill quantum computers
USB devices are set to become much faster in the near future. The USB Promoter Group has now announced the USB4 Version 2.0 specification, which will double data transmission rates to a blistering 80 Gbps.Continue ReadingCategory: Electronics, ScienceT… Continue reading USB4 Version 2.0 unveiled with double the transfer speeds
With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine dragging into its seventh month, a number of oddities are emerging from this odd war. One of the most perplexing is the question of why a major cyber warfare power like Russia has launched so few and such ineffective c… Continue reading Why Russia’s cyber war in Ukraine hasn’t played out as predicted
Engineers at MIT have developed a new type of artificial synapse that’s extremely energy efficient and ultra-fast, processing data a million times faster than synapses in the human brain. The key is an analog design that shuttles protons around instead… Continue reading “Protonic” artificial synapse runs a million times faster than human ones
Engineers at MIT have developed a modular computer chip with components that can communicate using flashes of light. This could allow for electronics that can easily be upgraded with new sensors or processors, rather than replacing the whole chip.Conti… Continue reading Modular optical computer chip allows stackable swappable functions
Quantum computing may have just taken a major step forward, as a supercomputer facility in Australia becomes the first to have a quantum computer integrated into it. The quantum processor, developed by German-Australian start-up Quantum Brilliance, run… Continue reading Diamond-based quantum computer paired with supercomputers for first time
Scientists in the Netherlands have made a major step towards quantum computer networks by teleporting quantum information between two nodes that didn’t have a direct link to each other. The breakthrough heralds a faster and more secure communication sy… Continue reading Quantum teleportation achieved between non-adjacent network nodes