Computers
Continuous breakthroughs are bringing ever more powerful computers at ever-diminishing prices and enabling revolutionary related technologies, such as deep learning, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and mind-reading machines. New Atlas keeps you up to date with the latest developments.
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Parallels and Google buddy up to offer Windows on business Chromebooks
Google has partnered with Parallels to bring Windows to enterprise Chromebooks, meaning business users can now run full-featured Windows apps – including Microsoft Office – and Chrome apps simultaneously. -
Sony's Spatial Reality Display: Responsive, no-glasses 3D on your desk
Sony has debuted a new kind of 3D monitor with its Spatial Reality Display, which tracks your eyes and shows a different dynamically-generated image for each eye to give you a small, single-viewer window into a three-dimensional world. -
BBC adds sound and touch to tiny micro:bit educational computer
Back in 2016, the BBC gave a million tiny computers to UK school kids for free. The micro:bit boards were designed as learning tools to help get youngsters into coding, and now the tiny computer for tiny hands has been updated. -
New magnetic tape tech makes data storage resistant to interference
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have made magnetic tape using a new material, which allows higher storage density and more protection against interference, as well as a new way to write to the tape using high frequency millimeter waves. -
Nvidia aims to build UK's most powerful supercomputer by end of 2020
Nvidia has announced that it has invested nearly US$52 million to build the UK's most powerful supercomputer, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2020, and will be made available to healthcare researchers and academics. -
Googstick lets users select and search printed text
One of the nice things about reading electronic text is the fact that if there's a word you don't understand, you can just highlight it to do a Google search. Well, a device called the Googstick is designed to do the same thing for printed text. -
New mini PC packs dedicated GeForce GPU for some moderate gaming
Not everybody needs powerful computers – mini PCs can be great for work, media centers, or some modest gaming. Minisforum is now unveiling the EliteMini H31G, a small PC with a dedicated GPU that should let it run some more heavy-duty games. -
Microsoft retrieves its experimental underwater data center
Data centers require heavy-duty cooling and maintenance. Microsoft has now finished a two-year test of an unconventional solution – dropping a data center to the bottom of the sea – and found that it was more reliable than land-based facilities. -
Battery-free retro Game Boy runs on solar power and button mashing
As a way of demonstrating advances in energy and where they might lead us, a team of researchers has built a Game Boy that requires no battery, instead powering itself from a combination of solar energy and the user’s interactions with the device. -
Intel launches 11th Gen Tiger Lake processors for laptops
Intel has unveiled its new generation of laptop processors. Codenamed Tiger Lake, the new 11th Gen Intel Core processors are much faster than their predecessors for office work, gaming and content creation. -
Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 30 GPUs crunch up to 8K resolution at 60 fps
This year is big for new generations of gaming tech, with new consoles on the way. Now Nvidia has revealed its new generation of GPUs with the GeForce RTX 30 series, the beefiest of which can play games in 8K resolution at 60 frames per second (fps). -
Elon Musk shows off Neuralink's brain implant in pigs
Neuroscience startup Neuralink is on a mission to develop next-generation brain implants that hook machines up to the human mind, and on Friday founder Elon Musk offered a look at the team’s progress.
