Aug 23
It might not just be your ears that are stuffed with wax for long—because researchers from the University of Michigan want to pack your phone full of the stuff, too.
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Aug 21
Graphene has the power to change computing forever by making the fastest transistors ever. In theory. We just haven’t figured out how yet. Sound familiar
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Aug 20
Hot diggity. LG just announced an insane 5.5-inch smartphone screen that has pixels that must be made from some sort of mixture between dense diamond sparkles and unicorn blood paint. More seriously, the 5.5-inch AH-IPS LCD display’s resolution is 2,560 x 1,440 (Quad HD) and packs 538 pixels per inch. That makes it the highest resolution and ppi for a smartphone panel.
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Aug 20
Thunderbolt 2 is barely a real thing yet, but that hasn’t stopped ASUS rolling out the first product on the market to use the interface. Now, you can buy a motherboard that sports the super-fast data link.
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Aug 12
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the next generation of Apple’s iPad will use the same display technology which make the iPad mini so thin and light.
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Aug 08
The brain’s an incredibly rich and complex computational core that we don’t really fully understand—but that isn’t stopping IBM building a new form of computing architecture around what’s happening inside our heads.
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Aug 07
You may already know that silicon chips are etched using deep ultraviolet lithography, but you might not realise that we’ve reached the limit of what can be done using normal UV rays. Fortunately a new kind of light, called Extreme Ultraviolet, is about to land in the hands of chip manufacturers—and it should help your processor keep up with Moore’s Law.
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Aug 06
There’s never a shortage of new experimental forms of memory—but a company called Crossbar has now worked up something called resistive RAM which could wipe the floor with NAND.
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Aug 01
The USB 3.0 Promoter Group—honestly, there is such a thing—has finalized the next iteration of Universal Serial Bus, and it’s going to run at a lightning fast 10Gbps.
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Jul 31
How to Play Crysis on a MacBook Air
Posted in: Today's ChiliThe MacBook Air’s graphics capabilities make it too wimpy to play any proper games on out of the box—but there is a way to beef things up.
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