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IBM’s new 2-nm chips have transistors smaller than a strand of DNA

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IBM has unveiled the world's first 2-nm chips

In a shining example of the inexorable march of technology, IBM has unveiled new semiconductor chips with the smallest transistors ever made. The new 2-nanometer (nm) tech allows the company to cram a staggering 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail.

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Microsoft’s new cooling system dunks data servers in boiling liquid

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Liquid cooling is one of the most effective ways to keep computers from overheating. While the natural first choice might be a liquid that runs cold, Microsoft has now done the exact opposite, demonstrating a system to cool its cloud servers by dunking… Continue reading Microsoft’s new cooling system dunks data servers in boiling liquid→

Sophia the robot sells digital NFT artwork for nearly $700,000

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Continuing the wave of extraordinary digital art sales manifested by new blockchain-based NFT technology, an artwork co-created by the famous humanoid robot Sophia has now sold for just under US$700,000.Continue ReadingCategory: Robotics, TechnologyTag… Continue reading Sophia the robot sells digital NFT artwork for nearly $700,000→

X-rays unlock secrets of the world’s oldest computer

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A team of scientists at the University College London has shed new light on the Antikythera Mechanism – the world’s first computer and one of the ancient world’s greatest technological mysteries. Using new imaging data, the multidisciplinary UCL Antiky… Continue reading X-rays unlock secrets of the world’s oldest computer→

Homebrew Relay Computer Looks Like it Could Be a Commercial Product

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You may not have noticed, but we here at Hackaday really love our clicky stuff. Clicky mechanical keyboards, unnecessarily noisy flip-dot displays, and pretty much anything made with a lot of relays — they all grab our attention, in more …read more

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DIY 8-Bit Computer Knows All the Tricks

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Some projects are a rite of passage within their respected fields. For computer science, building one’s own computer from scratch is certainly among those projects. Of course, we’re not talking about buying components online and snapping together a modern x86 machine. We mean building something closer to a fully-programmable 8-bit …read more

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Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5-billion-year task in minutes

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Researchers in China claim to have achieved quantum supremacy, the point where a quantum computer completes a task that would be virtually impossible for a classical computer to perform. The device, named Jiuzhang, reportedly conducted a calculation in… Continue reading Chinese quantum computer completes 2.5-billion-year task in minutes→

A CPU-Less Computer with a Single NOR-Gate ALU

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We see a lot of discrete-logic computer builds these days, and we love them all. But after a while, they kind of all blend in with each other. So what’s the discrete logic aficionado to do if they want to stand out from the pack? Perhaps this CPU-less computer with …read more

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