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UK Computing Pioneer Sir Clive Sinclair Has Died
I think it would be fair to say that there will be a number of people waking up today who, having perhaps seen the name Sir Clive Sinclair pop up in the news, may be wondering exactly who he was. While I think it would be fair to say that…
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Intel’s Project Athena Ushers in Next-Generation of Mobile Computing
We’re here in Taipei, checking out the latest progress on Intel’s Project Athena. The ecosystem which will help shape the true next-generation of mobile platforms and laptops. First revealed at CES 2019, and further expanded on today. It’s a new set of requirements for partner brands to ensure their next-generation…
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Raspberry Pi Now the Third Best-Selling GP Computer of All Time
Raspberry Pi has recently reached a milestone, becoming the third best-selling general purpose computer in history, displacing the Commodore 64 which sold 12.5 million, the bulk of which is from 1982 to 1993. Not a bad haul considering the original Raspberry Pi only had intentions to sell between 10 and…
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Laser Pulse Study Could Lead to Super-Fast Lightwave Computers
New research into ultrashort light pulses could lead to computers that run 100,000 times faster than current hardware. A team from the University of Michigan may have achieved that goal with a study into laser pulses that last for intervals of only a quadrillionth of a second. The technique can…
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AMD Announces The Radeon Open Compute Platform
AMD has just officially unveiled the Radeon Open Compute Platform (ROCm) which a new open-source foundation for Hyper Scale and HPC-Class computing. This initiative is based on a rich foundation of open source tools which tune deep learning frameworks and optimise parallel programming. As you can see, the HSA provides a…
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New Heat Dissipation Method Could Make Semiconductors Faster
A team of researchers from the University of California have developed a new technique for dissipating heat across electronic devices which could give a massive speed and power boost to new and existing semiconductors. Alexander Balandin, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computing Engineering and UC Presidential Chair Professor in UCR’s…
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AMD Thinks Moore’s Law is Alive and Kicking
Despite recent claims to the contrary by rivals Intel, AMD has declared that Moore’s Law – the principle that computing power would double as processing technology shrinks – is far from dead. AMD’s Chief Technical Officer Mark Papermaster believes that Moore’s Law still applies and that anyone who thinks otherwise…
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Researchers Break Quantum Computing Logic Gate Record
A team of Oxford University researchers has broken a record vital to the creation of a quantum computer, which could harness the quantum-mechanical phenomena of entanglement and superposition in order to perform superfast computational operations without electronic transistors. The researchers, from the University of Oxford’s Engineering and Physical Sciences Research…
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Diamonds Could Help Unlock Quantum Computing
The stumbling block when it comes to quantum computing – which aims to use the quantum-mechanical phenomena of entanglement and superposition in order to perform superfast computational operations without electronic transistors – is maintaining superposition (i.e. more than one physical state, simultaneously; think Schrödinger’s cat), but a team of researchers…
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IBM’s Watson Now Has A Cook Book
Who doesn’t like their food? From the simple sandwich to a Sunday roast, there are plenty of meals you can make to enjoy in anything from five minutes to five hours. When it comes to trying to make something new, most people including professional chefs, prefer to go with using…
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GCHQ Admits £1b Investment in Cyber Security “Hasn’t Worked”
Over the last five years, UK intelligence service GCHQ has spent nearly £1 billion on its cyber security initiative, but the civil servant in charge of the program has admitted, “the bottom line is it hasn’t worked.” Alex Dewedney, Director of Cyber Security for CESG (Communications-Electronics Security Group) – a…
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AMD Snags Nvidia Supercomputer Client With FirePro & GPUOpen
When AMD revealed their GPUOpen and Boltzmann Initiative, it seemed like a last-ditch effort to get back some GPU computing and enterprise marketshare. Nvidia had struck first with CUDA and because of its success, many GPU computing platforms have largely been based on CUDA, with OpenCL lagging behind. With the Boltzmann…
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Microsoft: Windows PCs ‘Do More’ Than Macs
The PC Vs Mac debate has been hotly discussed and analysed for what seems to be since the dawn of time. Over the years, there’s been various arguments which outlines the benefits and drawbacks of both systems which makes for an interesting topic. In the past, Mac users proclaimed Windows…
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Microsoft Patents a Modular Computing Device
Microsoft applied for this patent as far back as July last year and it was now published just a few days ago. Microsoft has now patented a “modular computing device” that would enable people to put together the exact PC components they want instead of purchasing a completely new system.…
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2015 Saw Biggest Ever Decline in PC Sales
PC sales in 2015 were the lowest since 2008 – shipping below 300 million units – and the on-year decline of 10.6% is the largest decline ever experienced, beating a previous drop of 9.8% in 2013, IDC Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker announced in a press release on DigiTimes. “The PC…
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