Friday, May 17, 2013 - 4:56pm
Graphene is pretty cool all by itself, but when it has the right dance partner, it can do the impossible.
computing stories
Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - 2:59pm
Your body, in many ways, is a computer. It's not wired with silicon, but relies on chemical pathways to transmit and receive information and instructions. Conventional electronics may not play well with biology, but the invention of the first artificial chemical circuit could be the key to interacting directly with our cells.
Friday, May 25, 2012 - 1:27pm
Back in the day, electronics were made with vacuum tubes, which are like little light bulbs that function as amplifiers or switches. In the present, electronics use transistors instead, which do the same thing but can be made tiny and for cheap. NASA researchers have now figured out how to make vacuum tubes on the nanoscale, which could mean faster, more reliable computers.
Friday, January 6, 2012 - 9:02am
Studies have recently shown tiny wires made by precisely placing chains of phosphorus atoms within a silicon crystal has been proven to have excellent electrical conductivity. The new silicon wire is four atoms wide and one atom tall showing that "electrical resistivity" — or ease with which the current can flow — definitely doesn't depend on wire width.
Monday, November 14, 2011 - 3:11pm
Every six months, a new list of the top 500 fastest supecomputers in the world comes out, and today was the day. The big news is that we've cracked 10 petaflops, but compared to six months ago, the list itself will probably surprise you.
Friday, April 2, 2010 - 5:21am
Toshiba — the world's No. 2 NAND flash memory maker behind Samsung according to Reuters — is preparing the next advance in flash technology with even denser memory chips (similar to the silicon wafer pictured above). The company currently products...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010 - 4:41am
Asus has made a name for itself with netbooks. I remember when I first started writing about the Eee PC (before my time writing about it for DVICE), it was odd to think of a cheap computer as something super...
- computer chips
- computing
- Data
- exchange
- Future Tech
- IBM
- light
- nanophotonic avalanche photodetector
- pulses
- research
- transfer
Thursday, March 4, 2010 - 2:33am
There's some weird science going down at IBM: namely, ditching the copper that facilities electrical signals for information exchange on circuitry and replacing it instead with chips that can communicate using pulses of light. The whole shebang is called a...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 - 6:38am
There's no denying the popularity of iTunes — it could be said that iTunes single-handedly took down the record store business model. But think about it. iTunes isn't even a website that you can surf from anywhere. You have to...
- Chandra Rathakrishnan
- computing
- crunchpad
- fusion garage
- joojoo
- Michael Arrington
- PCs
- tablet
- TechCrunch
- Unix
- web browser
Monday, December 7, 2009 - 1:40pm
For a while now we've been keeping an eye on the CrunchPad — a tablet geared towards browsing the Internet while sitting on the sofa — though last month it looked like it was all over for the niche-y computer...
