Yesterday, Intel announced that it’s putting its insane 72-core Knight’s Landing’ supercomputer chip—its fastest ever—into production. But perhaps more exciting is the fact that it has plans to ship desktop workstations that contain the face-melting computational powerhouse. Read more…
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Intel Plans to Put Its Insane 8-Teraflop Supercomputer Chips Into a Desktop
Battery life is one of the biggest headaches in tech—but while capacity remains a problem, manufacturers are at least making big improvements to charge times. Like Huawei, whose new experimental set-up can take a dead battery to 48 percent change in about five minutes. Read more…
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Huawei’s Researhers Can Charge a 3,000mAh Battery to 48% in 5 Minutes
Electrons are quick, but they’re not quick enough — in fact they’re holding back the speed of modern computing. Now, a team has developed the world’s first ever light-based memory chip that can store data permanently, and it could help usher in a new era of computing Read more…
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A New Light-Based Memory Chip Could Change the Fundamentals of Computing
If you need masses of storage but like your laptop’s performance super-fast, then this new SSD may scratch your itch. With 6 terabytes of storage, this is the world’s largest capacity 2.5-inch SSD (for now). Read more…
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This Is the World’s First 6TB 2.5-Inch SSD
Cody Littley is a computer science PhD student with a little time on his hands. Which perhaps explains why he built a working 1KB hard drive in Minecraft out of virtual building blocks. Read more…
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Someone Built a Fully Functioning 1KB Hard Drive Inside Minecraft
Virtually all of your gadgets tote lithium ion batteries—but while they’re the best you can hope for at the moment, new engineering means that pure lithium batteries are now a possibility , and they could double the life of your phone. Read more…
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A New Pure Lithium Battery Could Double Your Phone’s Life
Rectangular screens are so square. Which is presumably why Sharp has announced a new technology called Free-Form Display—that could allow screens to come in any space, and reduce bezel size to almost zero. Read more…
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Sharp’s Free-Form Display Make Bezels Super-Thin, Screens Any Shape
Intel has just announced a new reference PC design that uses its upcoming Broadwell chipset. Usually, that wouldn’t get us excited—but this concept ushers in the prospect of silent ultrabooks and MacBook Airs. Read more…
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Intel’s New Broadwell Processor Could Make Your Next Ultrabook Silent
Just a few months ago we were impressed with Western Digital for cramming an entire terabyte of storage into a mobile hard drive that was just seven millimeters thick. But now Seagate’s come along to steal WD’s thunder with the ultra-slim 2.5-inch Spinpoint M9T that manages to double that capacity to two-terabytes inside a drive that’s just 9.5 millimeters thick. Read more…
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The World’s Thinnest 2TB Hard Drive Is a Mere 9.5mm Thick
If you’ve got a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise canceling . Read more…
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First Active Noise-Canceling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up