Researchers Demonstrate Initial Steps toward Commercial Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes as a Successor to Silicon

Researchers Demonstrate Initial Steps toward Commercial Fabrication of Carbon Nanotubes as a Successor to Silicon

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Novel processing method helps pave the way for carbon technology as a viable alternative to silicon in future computing IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnology that opens up the path for [...]

Oak Ridge unveils Titan, the world's most powerful supercomputer

Oak Ridge unveils Titan, the world’s most powerful supercomputer

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The GPU technology is also likely to find its way into consumer graphics cards in the future The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has just introduced Titan, the world’s most powerful [...]

Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing

Breakthrough offers new route to large-scale quantum computing

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“It’s the most amazing thing,” In a key step toward creating a working quantum computer, Princeton researchers have developed a method that may allow the quick and reliable transfer of quantum information throughout a computing [...]

Researchers unravel the secret to making cheap, high-density data storage

Researchers unravel the secret to making cheap, high-density data storage

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Imagine being able to store thousands of songs and high-resolution images on data devices no bigger than a fingernail. Researchers from A*A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) and the National University of Singapore [...]

Supercomputer helps breakthrough in cancer research

Supercomputer helps breakthrough in cancer research

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Breakthrough in cancer research that reduces the analysis time from two months to only 47 seconds per patient, One of the greatest advantages of supercomputing is that it offers researchers tools to study some of [...]

TinyDuino shrinks the Arduino, retains its flexibility

TinyDuino shrinks the Arduino, retains its flexibility

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Small, stackable boards which contain modules such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. The popular open-source Arduino microcontroller has been implemented in countless projects worldwide, and this very success has led the hacker community to create several [...]

Supercomputer breakthrough for Australian team

Supercomputer breakthrough for Australian team

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An Australian-led research team said Thursday they had made a technological breakthrough in the race for a quantum supercomputer that could revolutionise data encryption and medicine. Engineers from Sydney’s University of New South Wales said [...]

Meet Ubi: An always-on, connected computer that talks back

Meet Ubi: An always-on, connected computer that talks back

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The ubiquitous computer From HAL 9000 in Arthur C Clarke’s Space Odyssey science fiction saga to Eddie and Deep Thought from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, or even Dr. Theopolis from Buck Rogers in the 25th [...]

Shamoon virus targets energy sector infrastructure

Shamoon virus targets energy sector infrastructure

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A new threat targeting infrastructure in the energy industry has been uncovered by security specialists. The attack, known as Shamoon, is said to have hit “at least one organisation” in the sector. Shamoon is capable [...]

Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet?

Can Facebook Show How to Reduce the Growing Energy Use of the Internet?

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Computer design and server farm location could dramatically reduce the energy required to run Facebook and the rest of the Internet, reducing greenhouse gases, too More than 750 million users, 532 million kilowatt-hours of energy [...]

World's smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists

World’s smallest semiconductor laser created by University of Texas scientists

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Have the potential to replace electronic circuits have the potential to replace electronic circuitsPhysicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world’s smallest semiconductor [...]

Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers Down to Size

Printed Photonic Crystal Mirrors Shrink On-Chip Lasers Down to Size

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Give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that [...]