DRAM’s Damning Defects—and How They Cripple Computers
Not long after the first personal computers started entering people’s homes, Intel fell victim to a nasty kind of memory error. The company, which had commercialized the very first dynamic...
View ArticlePower Problems Threaten to Strangle Exascale Computing
For most of the decade, experts in high-performance computing have had their sights set on exascale computers—supercomputers capable of performing 1 million trillion floating-point operations per...
View ArticleTaiwan Neglects Supercomputing
A quick glance at the new ranking of top supercomputers reveals a surprising showing by one of the world’s technological powerhouses: Taiwan does not possess a single machine powerful enough to make...
View ArticleEntangling Different Kinds of Atoms Could Be the Way Forward for Quantum...
Last week two research groups, one at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Col., and one at the University of Oxford reported experiments in which particles of...
View ArticleVR Glove Powered by Finger Motions
Tom Cruise would have looked much less cool in the 2002 film Minority Report if he’d swiped through images on his computer display with gloves that required clunky data cables or heavy battery packs....
View ArticleHow Supercomputing Can Survive Beyond Moore’s Law
Today’s technology makes a 1-exaflop supercomputer capable of performing 1 million trillion floating-point operations per second almost inevitable. But pushing supercomputing beyond that point to 10...
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Australians Invent Architecture for a Full-Scale Silicon Quantum Computer
It’s looking more and more like future super powerful quantum computers will be made of the same stuff as today’s classical computers: silicon. A new study lays out the architecture for how silicon...
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Spy Agency Bets on IBM for Universal Quantum Computing
A real-life U.S. version of “Q Branch” from the James Bond films has greater ambitions than creating personal spy gadgets such as exploding watches or weaponized Aston Martins. It’s betting on an IBM...
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Four New Ways to Chill Computer Chips
Things are getting a bit too hot in the microprocessor world. Again. Moore’s Law has always come with the caveat that more transistors, switched at a higher frequency, means more heat. Over the years,...
View ArticleCan Robot Racing Win Human Hearts?
Not much on live TV compares with the tension of watching human race car drivers risk possible injury or death at speeds of hundreds of miles per hour. A split second of bad timing can quickly...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Improve EHR Software Systems
Having had the privilege of practicing medicine for over three decades, I have witnessed exponential technological advances to advance the quality of patient care: ultrasound, CT scans, MRI’s, PET...
View ArticleSeven Keys to Scaling Your Supplier Scorecarding Program
A solid supplier scorecarding program can drive big cost savings in the supply chain. Executives know that clear performance metrics are the starting point for supplier management. Yet, many companies...
View ArticleTelematics On Cusp of Widespread Adoption
Telematics is nothing new – the technology’s been around for decades – but the ubiquitous smartphone is now expected to drive telematics penetration in private hire vehicles and taxis to 21% globally...
View ArticleProfessional tax return filing by Lacerte Online
Lacerte is a professional tax software application suite of features, tools and methods to file the tax returns. It can be used for personal or for an enterprise; it has both the solution for the...
View ArticleFriday Travel Ticker United computers down again
A computer outage at United Airlines delayed thousands of travelers on Thursday. The two-hour outage held up morning flights from Los Angeles to London. It was United’s third major computer mishap this...
View ArticleNSA posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware
The National Security Agency has reportedly used automated systems to infect user computers with malware since 2010, according to a Wednesday report. And at times the agency pretended to be Facebook to...
View ArticleCompton Community College library opens seven years later than planned
Jewel Wade remembers the tense atmosphere at Compton Community College in 2006, when it was rumored the school would close. “The whole school was kind of depressing because nobody knew what was going...
View ArticleComputer glitches hamper healthcare delivery to Californias poor
Reginald Clarke is someone Obamacare was designed to help. The 55-year-old, who was homeless for a time, now has an apartment in Gardena and a street-cleaning job that pays him $14,000 a year. He...
View ArticleThree Tips on Purchasing a Used Smartphone
There is no secret that if purchasing a used phone you can save a bunch of money, but how to make such a purchase wisely and in the most efficient way? Read three simple tips from techno professionals...
View ArticleHow IT improvements are changing the courier landscape.
Since more and more courier companies have appeared on the market, each one of them is actively trying to deliver the best results. But that’s where the need for innovation comes into play and with...
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