Industry voice: The rise of photonic switching in the datacenter
There is a lot of industry inertia around two major datacenter networking trends: white box switching and software-defined networking (SDN). The primary driver behind both is cost. The former is about...
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Sony Walkman at 35 Looking back at the most iconic music player of all time Last week, the Sony Walkman turned 35 years old. The Walkman is, therefore just a year younger than I am, and I certainly...
View ArticleAmazon launches Zocalo to compete with Box and Dropbox
Amazon has unveiled an enterprise storage and collaboration service designed to compete with Box, Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive. The service, Amazon Zocalo, allows users to save, send,...
View ArticleUpdated: CES 2015: what we want to see
#1 – #5 The email came a few weeks ago. "Register today for the 2015 International CES," it read. Your first reaction is "not again" as memories of long hours, furious typing, and thousands of people...
View ArticleHow to build a surprisingly clever Connect Four robot
You’ve probably played Connect Four before, but never quite like this. This tabletop robot is programmed and ready to pwn you. MIT student Patrick McCabe constructed it for his Microcomputer Project...
View ArticleIBM’s record-setting chip is modeled after the human brain
Scientists from IBM have unveiled a neurosynaptic computer chip modeled on the human brain that contains one million programmable neurons and 256 million programmable synapses. The chip features 5.4...
View ArticleGoogle is building its own quantum computer chip
Google is a curious web search company with its hand in everything from Android Wear smartwatches to robots. Now, Mountain View has set its sights on quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, director of...
View ArticleGoogle sets out to build its own quantum computer chip
Google is a curious web search company with it’s hand in everything from Android Wear smartwatches, robots and now quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, director of engineering from Google’s Quantum...
View ArticleExclusive: Meet the company that wants to sell you a sub-£200 3D printer in 2015
Remember when the first inkjet printers hit the market? They were expensive, slow, bulky, had a low resolution and could only print in black. 3D printing is currently at this stage now, and given how...
View ArticleGetting Ready for the Software-Defined Data Center
The Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) is at an early stage in its development but software and hardware vendors are already lining up to sell you SDDC products. EMC recently released its Federation...
View ArticleInterview: The future for NVMe technology, and how UNH-IOL advances its progress
Recent product announcements prove the NVMe (NVM Express) revolution is underway and is expected to continue with a wave of new products hitting the market in the coming months. Through its NVMe...
View Article10 must-have gadgets to help enterprise users make productivity gains
Introduction and gadgets 1-5 Technology advances quickly, but it’s often easy to rely on the same printers, scanners, and other office equipment for longer than necessary. These brand new products use...
View ArticleHP’s new ‘virtual reality’ display will break down barriers at CES
HP is bringing its display A-game to CES 2015 this week, and chief among its brand new monitors is the HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display. The Zvr uses something called "zSpace" technology with a...
View ArticleCES 2015: HP’s new ‘virtual reality’ display will break down barriers at CES
HP is bringing its display A-game to CES 2015 this week, and chief among its brand new monitors is the HP Zvr Virtual Reality Display. The Zvr uses something called "zSpace" technology with a...
View ArticleMintBox Mini crams a Linux computer into a tiny, fanless box
Linux Mint and Compulab have teamed up on a few projects in the past. For their latest collaboration, they’ve shoved a PC running Linux Mint into a passively-cooled box that’s under an inch […]...
View ArticleIntel unveils fifth-generation vPro CPU, dreams of a wireless workplace
Everybody knows that in business, time is money, a message that Intel spent almost two hours communicating at the launch of its fifth-generation vPro processor in London. The latest version of the...
View ArticleIn Depth: Intel WiDi: what it means for business
Intel’s fifth-generation Core vPro platform allows PC makers to create slimmer business-focused laptops and 2-in-1s. Another, arguably more interesting advantage that it brings is the ability for...
View ArticleGoogle sets out to build its own quantum computer chip
Google is a curious web search company with it’s hand in everything from Android Wear smartwatches, robots and now quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, director of engineering from Google’s Quantum...
View ArticleGoogle is building its own quantum computer chip
Google is a curious web search company with its hand in everything from Android Wear smartwatches to robots. Now, Mountain View has set its sights on quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, director of...
View ArticleGoogle sets out to build its own quantum computer chip
Google is a curious web search company with it’s hand in everything from Android Wear smartwatches, robots and now quantum computing. Hartmut Neven, director of engineering from Google’s Quantum...
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