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22:12 01 September 2011 by Celeste Biever For similar stories, visit the Quantum World Topic Guide   Quantum computer users may soon have to wrestle with their own version of the “PC or Mac?” question. A design based on superconducting electrical circuits has now performed two benchmark feats, suggesting it will be a serious competitor

If their like me, I will flirt with pretty much anything (Grin)     Charlie is the kind of girl your mom wants you to date. She’s smart, polite, low maintenance, not to mention exotically pretty (can’t quite place her ethnic background). She’s also got a great job. Why not ask her out? Well, there’s

        The historical development of mobile has gone from the laptop to the smartphone and, more recently, to the tablet. Laptops are “destination” computing systems. By that I mean that you take the laptop from one place to another where you can use it. Laptops can do everything, but in mobile the

The National Science Foundation has kicked off a successor to its popular Teragrid project, that links together 17 of the nation’s fastest supercomputer and software development centers with infrastructure support to realize the world’s most advanced applications in materials science, medicine, genomics, astronomy, biology and specialty fields like earthquake engineering. The new Extreme Science and

  Standing an astonishing 10,124 pixels tall, the infographic covers the life of both Apple and Microsoft ever since the infamous 1984 ad campaign Apple launched to promote its brand-spanking new Macintosh computer.     Since then, Microsoft has become the mammoth company it is today by cornering the business computing market with the Windows

  This got a bit lost amid all the WWDC 2011 hubbub earlier this week, but Apple quietly delivered a bit of bad news to steadfast Windows XP users with its iCloud announcement.       Unlike its MobileMe service and recent versions of iTunes, which have somewhat surprisingly supported Windows XP all this time, use of

    This January, Sony debuted its new gaming handheld in Tokyo. The portable’s codename was introduced as NGP, or “Next Generation Portable”. Today, at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles, Sony revealed the handheld’s final name, PS Vita, as well as its pricing.     The portable has dual touch pads, dual cameras,

  On June 8, NASA joins organizations from across the globe to test out the next generation of the Internet, called Internet Protocol version six or IPv6. As more devices and people come online, the older Internet Protocol version four (IPv4) addresses — those sets of numbers that uniquely identify every device on the Internet

    Why Netflix rocks is the same reason that tomorrow’s iCloud announcements will rock. It’s not about the technology, it’s because of the technology that counts. You can feel it if you make the time to. Making time means what?     One evening last week we sat at the bar downstairs at 1

  I get the feeling that the announcements at next week’s Apple WWDC are going to represent the same kind of fundamental shift in Apple’s offering that the iPod did in 2001. I don’t have any inside info, and I make a point of not trying to pry secrets from my friends who work at

      I was surprised to hear former Google CEO Eric Schmidt publicly lament lost opportunities and missed chances to catch Facebook the other day. I used to envy Google and the vast digital empire that Schmidt commanded.  Google had one of the most intricate monopolies of all time. It had the most impressive dataset

has the features and design points that could make this tablet the biggest threat to the iPad yet.           HP’s TouchPad Might Be iPad’s Top Challenger: 10 Reasons Why Hewlett-Packard has been saying for quite some time now that it has big plans for the tablet space. And earlier this year,

    Its kinda back online again. Seems I cant use the shopping cart though. This applies to my PSP Network. Kev– Sony is not having a good year. As the company scrambles to get the PlayStation Network and Qriocity music service back online, it’s suffering from yet another security breach. This time it’s a

        ViewSonic made good on a rumor from earlier this month and debuted its ViewPad 7x tablet running Google Honeycomb at Computex in Taipei. The 7-inch slate is powered by Android 3.0.1, the same version I used on Acer’s 10.1 tablet for my review. The company hasn’t yet announced a price point

This is going to be nice ! The thickest part of this new laptop is 17mm, its entire body is built from an aluminum alloy (weighs 1.1kg / 2.4lb), and the CPUs can be specced as high as Core i7. Anything else you need to know before drooling all over yourself? How about a two-second

        The world’s first commercially available quantum computer, which uses principles of quantum mechanics rather than classical mechanics, was sold to aerospace, defense and security company Lockheed Martin.   Unlike computers based on transistors, quantum computers rely on principles of quantum mechanics to conduct operations. The computers take advantage of properties like

  Geosocial is huge trend that continues to entertain us all. As we all know, things change incredibly quickly in the world of the internet, so we decided to update our infographic The Geosocial Universe a few months short of the one year anniversary of its first iteration. Once again, we look to answer the

Sony today pushed out a new software update for its PS3 console in preparation for the return of its PlayStation Network service. The update brings the PS3′s software up to version 3.61 and requires users to change their PSN password as part of the new security put in place since Sony’s servers were attacked last

    Today, Sony issued an official statement about the resumption of PlayStation Network services, starting soon. The company also revealed plans to compensate subscribers with some freebees as part of the “Welcome Back” program, which include 30 days free PlayStation Plus and Qriocity music streaming services. Sony will reveal further details about the freebees on

  Still down? I was wondering why my PSP wasnt logging in for the past week. Kev _____________ Update 4/26/11 A concerning updating coming out of Sony today regarding their PlayStation Network with two spokesmen confirming the company does not yet know whether users’ personal details – including credit card numbers – were stolen as

    Amazon’s move into the cloud music storage and streaming game is nothing if not controversial. I love it. They’ve seemingly looked at what companies like Apple and Google have been dealing with for months, if not years, and just said “screw it, let’s just do it.” Ballsy. Brilliant. Wonderful. Of course, the service

Evolutionary computing lets anyone discover new laws of nature – but does this mean the end of science as we know it? IT WAS long after midnight when Michael Schmidt noticed a strangely familiar equation pop up on his monitor. His computer was crunching the data from an experiment to measure the chaotic motion of

Paul Marks, senior technology correspondent Amazon today beat Google and Apple to the punch by launching a service that stores all your music, videos and documents in the cloud. Displaying a high level of faith in cloud uptime, Amazon Cloud Drive promises to help people forget the loss of data they’ve had from past hard

Jim Giles, contributor Here’s something for Twitter fans to think about. When you’re chatting with other users, are you sure you’re talking to a human and not a piece of software? Earlier this year, researchers created software that can impersonate human Twitter users. New Scientist ran a story yesterday describing how these creations were surprisingly

  Humanity recorded some 2,900 billion billion (2,900,000,000,000,000,000,000) bytes of data in 2007, information researchers report, a data explosion from 1986 to 2007 abetted by a 58% annual increase in computing power. That sounds impressive, but it is still less than the amount of data contained in our genes, or the computational power of the

First there was the all mighty serial port, then parallel port, then the hi-tech usb port. Firewire popped in there too. Well now there is this new type of port that will replace them all.  Wow !!! THUNDERBOLT™ TECHNOLOGY The Fastest Connection To Your PC Experience‡ From the company with the fastest processors comes the

On November 16, 2009, Greg Hoglund, a cofounder of computer security firm HBGary, sent an e-mail to two colleagues. The message came with an attachment, a Microsoft Word file called AL_QAEDA.doc, which had been further compressed and password protected for safety. Its contents were dangerous. The HBGary saga: Anonymous to security firm working with FBI:

Amazon.com Widgets Things just got real folks! At their big event today, HP finally announced its swanky new tablet to the world, and it’s a beauty! Called the HP TouchPad, the tablet is the result of Palm being absorbed into the world of HP with webOS beating at the heart of the device. With more

DNSSEC FAQs In 2010 and 2011, we are conducting a DNSSEC technical trials in our production network in order to prepare for the full scale deployment of DNSSEC (which began in October 2010). All Comcast customers will eventually be automatically migrated to our DNSSEC validating servers. If you don’t want to wait, you can immediately

The Internet is about to run out of new addresses, a milestone that is spurring Web giants like Facebook Inc. and Google Inc. to develop new versions of their sites and prompting carriers like AT&T Inc. and others to upgrade networks. This week, the last batch of existing Internet protocol addresses is set to run