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Lenovo Launch its New Yoga Series of Laptops
Lenovo has unveiled their next generation of premium, ultra-slim Windows 11 Yoga laptops including the flagship 14-inch Yoga Slim 9i, Yoga Slim 7i Pro X, Yoga Slim 7 Pro X, and the Yoga Slim 7i Carbon. The new Yoga line also offers refreshes of the 14-inch and 16-inch Yoga Slim…
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BBC Micro Celebrates 40th Birthday With Retro Sounds Contest Winner!
For those of you who attended school in the UK between the 1980s or early to mid-’90s, you were probably more than familiar with the BBC Micro. Designed by Acorn Computers (perhaps best known for the Electron), the system was specifically commissioned by the BBC in order to, basically, bring…
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Nvidia Builds the 7th Fastest Supercomputer in Just 4 Weeks
Following the completion of the Selene supercomputer, a design assembled by Nvidia, while representing the 7th most powerful supercomputer in the world, this (perhaps surprisingly) isn’t the most remarkable thing about it. Yes, it’s pretty amazingly strong in terms of computing output, but what if I told you that Nvidia…
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UK Prisoner Scheme Is Set To Teach Them Coding
Prisons To Start Teaching Coding There is little doubt that talented coders can make a very good living in either the gaming or software market. With prisons always looking to find ways to get their inmates into vocational training, however, it seems that this might present an interesting opportunity. In…
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Lenovo And HP Make Up Nearly Half Of PC Sales
Lenovo And HP Make Up Nearly Half Of PC Sales With the growing trend for custom-built PCs, you might be forgiven for thinking that sales of pre-built systems are in decline. On the whole, you would be right. Based on figures from even as recent as 3 years ago, sales…
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Alan Turing Bombe Code Breaker Moves To Computing Museum
Alan Turing’s Replica Bombe Is Being Moved To The National Computer Museum The world owes much to Alan Turing. In fact, so much that the chances are that if he hadn’t existed the product which you are reading this one would probably never existed or at least under a very different guise.…
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Digital Ransom Demands Skyrocket In The UK
Digital Ransom Demands Skyrocket In the UK by Anything Up To £150,000 Towards the beginning of last year, I predicted that 2017 would be rampant with lock-out malware specifically designed to random your systems. A little over 2 months later the Wannacry epidemic launched. Admittedly, this wasn’t much of an insight…
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Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Sadly Dies
Spectrum Designer Rick Dickinson Sadly Dies Today, with there being only 3 major console manufacturers, it’s hard to believe at one point there was so many. Just going from the top of my head, in the 1980’s I can think of many. Amstrad, Sinclair, Acorn, BBC, Atari, Nintendo, Sega, Tandy,…
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Geek Squad Staff Were Paid FBI Agents Spying On Customers
Geek Squad In the US, a popular source for PC repairs for the masses was available in Geek Squad. The company, usually ran from locations such as ‘Best Buys’ offered people the opportunity to bring in their computers to be diagnosed and/or fixed. While the company has been subject to…
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UK University Offering £5,500 Computer Science Degree
Computer Science Undergraduate Course These days, getting a degree can be a very costly experience. If the actual living expenses weren’t enough, with the hike in tuition fees, most students are lucky to come away with debts less than £50,000. One university, however, is offering 3,000 placements on an undergraduate…
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GitHub Subject To The Worlds Biggest DDOS Attack
GitHub The website GitHub is popularly used by coders who either want help with their coding or are willing to check others to help them solve their coding troubles. For those unfamiliar with coding, the basic premise goes that your program coding may have 99 errors, you fix one of…
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Elon Musk Predicts Killer Computers Will End Humanity
Elon Musk predicts that the end of humanity will come at the ‘hands’ of killer computers According to the Terminator films, the robots were supposed to have risen up 20 years ago. Well, so far so good. Elon Musk is, however, convinced our end will still come at the hands…
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PC Sales Have Nosedived for the Last Half-Decade
Sales of PCs have been suffering for years now, with smartphones and tablets blamed for taking a huge slice out of the hardware’s market share, and the home computer’s record has just hit a new low. For the fifth year in a row, PC sales have declined, marking an…
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Aqua Computer Announces The VISION Water Cooling Add-Ons
Aqua Computers is a water cooling specialist which goes beyond conventional thinking to produce innovative products. Recently, the company considered the future direction of water blocks which formed the basis for a new range entitled VISION. This intriguing solution is essentially an OLED display integrated into water cooling hardware. In…
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Brain-Like Computers Are Closer to Reality Than You Might Think
Computers have definitely come a long way over the last few years both in terms of pure power and efficiency. However, creating actual brain-like computers has not been possible outside of laboratories so far, mainly because of the sheer power requirements. Now, it looks like a team of researchers has managed…
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