It could reduce by two-thirds the number of transistors needed IN A novel called “The Difference Engine”, published in 1990, William Gibson and Bruce Sterling wrote of an alternative Victori... Read more
Image via Wikipedia THE conversation started over lunch in a pub across the street from London’s Waterloo Station in the 1960s. The proposal, sketched out on the proverbial paper napkin, was... Read more
Image via Wikipedia REMEMBER those wailing banshee motorcycles with plumes of acrid blue smoke billowing behind them? Your correspondent came of age astride one. But few two-stroke engines s... Read more