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Dell’s Latest Tablet is Built to Withstand Extreme Conditions
Dell has expanded its Rugged line-up with a new Latitude tablet designed to operate in the harshest of environments. This model is resistant against mud, dust, sand, spillages and other hazards. The tablet can even be dropped from over four feet and has a temperature threshold between -20 and 140 degrees Fahrenheit. This…
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GlobalFoundries Seals IBM Deal
GlobalFoundries has been given the all-clear to complete its purchase of IBM’s chips division, in a deal worth $1.5 billion. An off-shoot of AMD, GlobalFoundries was founded in 2009 on the back of massive funding from the Advanced Technology Investment Company, the tech investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government.…
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4K 21.5-Inch Apple iMac Could be Coming This Autumn
9to5Mac, a site that specialises in reporting the latest news and rumours regarding Apple products, may have found evidence that a new 21.5-Inch iMac is on its way – the first update to the series in nearly two years – featuring a 4K display. After digging into the latest release…
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Man Spends Three Years Building a 45ft Processor in His House
The trend for tech companies in recent years has been to design and manufacture wafer thin computing devices. From Apple’s impossibly slim MacBook Air to the ingenious Raspberry Pi device which reboots the notion of a PC into a credit card size. But what happens if you buck the trend…
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Lenovo Enters PC Stick Market
Lenovo is releasing a PC-on-a-stick to rival Intel’s Compute Stick, and it’s cheaper, to boot. The Lenovo IdeaCentre Stick 300 is a dongle that will turn any monitor or TV with an HDMI input into a computer. The 15mm-thick dongle boasts an Intel Atom Z3735F processor, 2GB memory, and 32GB…
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SSD Prices to Reach Parity with HDDs in 2016
It wasn’t too long ago that computer owners were celebrating solid state drive prices dropping below the $1/GB mark, but a new report suggests that SSD retail prices could soon fall in line with those of their cheaper mechanical equivalents, the hard disk drive (HDD). A forecast from InformationWeek predicts…
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Raspberry Pi Releases First Official Case
One of the most curious aspects about affordable mini-computer the Raspberry Pi was that it came sans case, inspiring a generation of computer-philes to develop their own homebrew cases – often out of LEGO – if they didn’t settle for a third-party case. Now, the creators of the microcomputer have…
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Google Scoffs at Artificial Intelligence Scarmongering
In the wake of a number of important figures, including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and Professor Stephen Hawking, expressing their fears over the prospect of artificial intelligence subjugating humanity, Google’s premier AI scientist has called those ideas “preposterous”. “Whether it’s Terminator coming to blow us up or mad…
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Quantum Computers… Are They Here or Not?
Silicon chips have ruled computing since the last big innovation of computers and have been steadily getting better and better, faster and faster. But that could all change with the realisation that quantum computers could soon become a thing of reality rather than fiction. All computing is maths at its core,…
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Logitech Moving Away From Mouse Production
Logitech, one of the most popular and prolific computer peripheral producers in the world, is set to shift its focus away from mouse production, citing a sharp decline in demand. The manufacturer announced on Thursday that its operating profit fell by 34% for the first quarter of 2015 – an…
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BBC “Make it Digital” Scheme to Give 1 Million Micro-Computers to Kids
Back in the 1980s, the BBC, as part of a new computer literacy initiative, launched its own computer, the BBC Micro (a modified Acorn), in an effort to educate children about emerging information technology. Now, over thirty years later, the BBC are repeating the enterprise with the Make it…
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25-Year-Old Commodore 65 Computer Sells for $23,000 on eBay
No, that headline is not a typo: though anyone alive during the Eighties will be familiar with popular home computer the Commodore 64, its lesser-known younger cousin the Commodore 65 was released in 1990 as a bridge between the 8-bit C64 and Commodore’s 16-bit machine, the Amiga. Though the C65…
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Imminent IBM Reorganisation Could Result in Massive Layoffs
A potential restructuring of computer hardware company IBM could result in layoffs of 26% of staff, or over 111,000 people. If true, it would be the biggest corporate layoff in history, dwarfing the previous record – coincidentally held by IBM after a 1993 reorganisation – of 60,000. Robert X. Cringely,…
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Hewlett-Packard to Release ‘Revolutionary’ New Computer and Operating System in 2015
Troubled IT company Hewlett-Packard has announced plans for a hardware and software combination it thinks will revolutionise computer technology as we know it. The HP research division is calling the device ‘The Machine’. Current computer memory architecture has operated on the same ROM and RAM principle since the 1940s. HP hopes…
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Access IBM’s Watson Supercomputer for Free
IBM has opened up its Watson supercomputing platform to everybody for free. The decision to open up a public beta for the data analytics platform means that we now all have partial access to a supercomputer, anytime, anywhere. Using what is described as “the most powerful natural-language supercomputer in the world”, you…
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