Which hard drive is the best? Here’s a clue
Cloud storage company BackBlaze has published the second edition of its annual hard drive failure report which analyses, dissects and determines the failure rates for spinning HDDs it purchased. Many...
View ArticleSmartphones will look the same for years, says LG
LG may have bent over backwards to bring the world flexible smartphones, but when it comes to further innovation on current form factors, the Korean manufacturer shrugs off any notion that something...
View ArticleAMD focuses on power consumption with new architecture
Mainstream and entry level laptops are expected to get a boost as AMD unveiled its new range of Accelerated Processing Unit products, codenamed Carrizo. But don’t expect them to challenge mainstream...
View ArticleMWC 2015: Intel fleshes out low-power processor strategy
Intel has announced plans to split its Atom range of CPUs into three distinct tiers aimed at different audiences. The move, which mirrors what the company did to its mainstream core processor family,...
View ArticleIntel wants to squeeze ARM out of server market with Xeon D
Intel has pulled the curtains on the latest additions to its server-focused Xeon family with immediate availability. The Xeon Processor D fills a gap between the low-end Atom-based C2750 and the...
View ArticleIntel, Micron make Ultrabooks with 10TB SSDs a possibility
Using floating gate cells, Intel and Micron announced manufacturing has started on its 3D NAND flash storage and should be in products within next year, a move that could make 10TB solid state drives...
View ArticleGuess who is apparently interested in buying AMD?
Samsung may be considering acquiring AMD if a rumour emanating from Hankooki, the South Korean newspaper equivalent of the Financial Times, is to be believed. AMD is currently not in the best of shape...
View ArticleIntel rumoured to be acquiring FPGA partner, Altera
Semiconductor giant Intel is said to be in talks with Altera, a specialist in the FPGA (field-programmable gate array) market for a potential outright buyout worth more than $10 billion (about £6.8...
View ArticleScientists are using teleportation in a computer chip right now
A group of scientists from the UK and Japan have managed to produce a chip that uses a special type of teleportation called quantum teleportation to make quantum computers a little easier to...
View ArticleBuying guide: TR Top 10: Best 3D Printers
best 3d printers 3D printers print 3D models, in a process called Additive Manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. ABS...
View Article$349 Apple Watch Sport only costs $83.70 to manufacture
The Apple Watch is an instant hit. Not with consumers, although in a few weeks the sales figures may reflect that, but with Apple’s bank balance. The reason? As with most Apple gadgets, […] Source:...
View ArticleBuying guide: 10 best 3D Printers 2015
best 3d printers 3D printers print 3D models, in a process called Additive Manufacturing or AM. This process uses computer control to lay successive layers of material to build a 3D model. ABS...
View ArticleOpinion: How Toshiba’s new storage device could change the data centre
Poor hard disk drive; advances in silicon manufacturing have allowed solid state drives to capture the headlines leaving the traditional spindle-spinning devices in the shadows. But things are about...
View ArticleInternet of things gets massive boost with Intel-Altera deal
After the acquisition of Broadcom by Avago a few days and that of Freescale by NXP a couple of months ago, Intel has announced that it is buying Altera for a cool $16.7 billion (about £11 billion,...
View ArticleAsus graphics cards production no longer requires humans
According to Asus, every single graphics card in use today has been manufactured with the help of one or more human workers. But that is no longer the case. Asus has figured out […] See the article...
View ArticleMicrosoft looking to buy AMD. Why not?
Microsoft may be looking to buy AMD, according to a source familiar to the matter and quoted by tech news website, Kitguru. The two have apparently been talking for a few months with the result of the...
View ArticleIntel’s Skylake pushes the envelope on performance, introduces USB-C on desktops
Skipping over Broadwell, Intel has decided to go straight into its 6th generation Skylake processors for desktops. Intel isn’t holding back with its first release either by introducing...
View ArticleSamsung paves way for higher capacity SSDs
Manufacturing for 256-gigabit 3D Vertical NAND flash memory has begun, Samsung announced. The memory is based on 48 layers of 3-bit multi-level-cell arrays. The higher density memory paves way to even...
View ArticleUpdated: How to buy a PC for editing video and photos
Introduction With everything in this world turning digital, manipulating and editing vast amounts of full HD video (and in some cases 4K) and multi-megabyte images is starting to become a job many of...
View ArticleFluid motion allows a robot to use 40% less energy without losing speed
If you’ve ever watched an industrial robot in action it’s clear to see they are very fast, very precise, and very repetitive. They can work much faster than a human doing the same […] Excerpt from:...
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