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Microsoft's Surface Hub 2S digital whiteboard is here to upgrade your office meetings

David Nield April 18, 2019

Four years after the original Surface Hub arrived, and a year after announcing its successor, Microsoft is now launching the Surface Hub 2S in 50-inch and (eventually) 85-inch versions. The giant, interactive digital whiteboard can be yours for a mere $9k from June.

The 50-inch Surface Hub 2S is the first of the second-gen models to go on sale

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Reconstructed Heath Robinson, precursor to the Colossus computer, unveiled

David Szondy April 11, 2019

The Heath Robinson, a reconstruction of a major piece of cybernetic history and the precursor to Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic digital computer, has made its public debut at the National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, UK.

The reconstructed Heath Robinson machine

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Intel's next-gen supercomputer to usher in exascale era in 2021

Michael Irving March 18, 2019

Intel and the US Department of Energy will deliver the world’s first exascale supercomputer in 2021, boosting many different fields of research. Named Aurora, the new system will be a thousand times more powerful than the petascale generation that began in 2008 and is still in wide use today.

Intel's new supercomputer, named Aurora, will be the first of a new generation of exascale systems ...

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BeagleBone AI puts devs in the machine learning fast lane

Paul Ridden March 7, 2019

Revealed at the Embedded World expo in Nuremberg, Germany, last week, the BeagleBone AI has been developed to fill the gap between small single board computers and bigger, more powerful industrial computers.

The BeagleBone AI has been developed for industrial, commercial and home automation projects

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USB4 is coming with double the speed and a lot more versatility

David Nield March 5, 2019

If you buy a USB-equipped gadget today, you'll get the latest USB 3.1 standard, if you're lucky – but the technology isn't standing still. The preliminary specs for the USB4 standard have just been announced, promising a doubling of potential speeds and a range of new capabilities.

Current hardware, like the MacBook Pro pictured, goes up to USB 3.1

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Connectivity and speed at the core of latest Odroid maker board

Paul Ridden February 20, 2019

Though many alternatives are available, the Raspberry Pi computer boards are probably the most well known and widely used in the maker community. Hardkernel recognizes that there's a strong market for more powerful, more capable and more expensive boards. The Odroid N2 ticks all of those boxes.

The Hardkernel Odroid N2 is due for release at the end of March, 2019

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Samsung shows off curvy, flashy and space-saving 2019 monitors

Michael Irving January 3, 2019

Ahead of CES next week, Samsung has revealed three new 2019 monitors it will be showing off at the expo. Leading the line-up is the Space Monitor, designed to take up as little room as possible, along with an ultra-wide gaming monitor and a 4K curved display aimed at content creators.

Samsung's Space Monitor can be moved back to sit flush against a wall

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Intel makes homebrew neural net development faster and easier

Paul Ridden November 19, 2018

At its first artificial intelligence developer conference in Beijing, China, last week, Intel unveiled a second generation neural network in USB form, the Neural Compute Stick 2. Designed to level the neural net development playing field, the thumbdrive-sized device is shipping worldwide now.

Intel says that developers can have AI and computer vision application up and running in minutes ...

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Gemini Lake maker board can support two 4K displays

Paul Ridden October 23, 2018

When you think of home-brewed computer projects, Raspberry Pi or Arduino may be the first maker boards to spring to mind. But Hardkernel has been selling ARM-based single board computers for a good while and has now revealed the Odroid H2, its first built on Intel's x86 architecture.

The Odroid H2 single board computer is due for release in late November, 2018

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Asus All-in-One computer rocks wireless charging in its base

Paul Ridden October 22, 2018

If you're short on space, an All-in-One computer setup makes a lot of sense – which squeezes a desktop computer and monitor into one package. The latest such workstation from Asus features a 4K screen and a base where you can place your smartphone down for a quick wireless top-up.

The Zen AiO 27 can wirelessly charge a Qi-enable smartphone placed on its base