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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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. -
Republic of Gamers unleashes world's fastest gaming monitor
After first revealing the world's fastest gaming monitor at CES 2020, Asus has today given full details, pricing and availability for the new ROG Swift, which boasts a 360-Hz refresh rate for "silky-smooth gameplay and ultra-realistic visuals." -
Western Digital gives portable SSD a serious speed boost
WD has announced its second generation My Passport SSD line, which is aimed at content creators on the move. There's up to 2 TB of solid state storage on offer, blazing fast read and write speeds, and the drive can survive a drop of up to 6.5 feet. -
AI surveillance study tracks criminals post release to cut recidivism
A new four-year study using AI-enabled surveillance will track recently released prison parolees. The project’s goal is to lower rates of recidivism by identifying early interventions to help individuals transitioning from prison to regular society. -
Reborn home computing classic loads up second generation
Back in 2017, London startup SpecNext launched an enhanced version of an affordable computer beloved by early 80s Brit computer nerds on Kickstarter. Now, the ZX Spectrum Next has been upgraded to version two. -
Apple iterates 27-in iMac with faster brains and SSD as standard
Apple has announced a modest upgrade to the 27-in iMac. The new machines pack up to 10-core Intel processors, solid state drives (SSD) for faster storage, a higher-resolution FaceTime camera and a few other hardware tune-ups under the hood. -
US government study finds face masks block facial recognition technology
A new study from NIST has tested how accurately commercial facial recognition algorithms can identify people wearing protective face masks, revealing some commercially used systems fail at authenticating masked faces up to 50 percent of the time. -
Zephyr mouse packs a built-in fan to help gamers keep a cool hand
Sweaty palms are never a good thing, and now a new start-up is taking matters into their own hands with the Zephyr. This gaming mouse has a built-in fan to keep gamers’ hands cool. At the same time it's lightweight, responsive, and finished in LEDs.
