Squishy computers now enable the first fully soft robots
Harvard researchers devised a rubber computer which could lead to all sort of wacky soft robotics.
Tag: computers
Thermal diode could allow computers to one day function on heat alone
No more fans for us!
Emotional computers really freak people out — a new take on the uncanny valley
Be like us, but not us.
NASA creates computers that can survive on Venus, 30 years after the last landings
They'll have to face boiling acids and extreme pressures.
Scientists develop memory chips from egg shells
Omelette du RAM.
Atomic-sandwich material could make computers 100 times more energy efficient
Don't need a calculator to know that's a lot.
New method developed to encode huge quantity of data in diamonds
Data is a girl's best friend.
Here’s why there was no Twitter on Friday — it’s way scarier than you think
Hordes of zombie gadgets had something to do with it.
IBM Scientists make phase-changing Artificial Neurons to mimic the Computer Power of Human Brain
Science is getting closer to a computer that mimics the human brain.
By 2040 our computers will use more power than we can produce
I didn't know they could do that.
People pick up and use discarded USB drives they find almost half the time
Portable data storage, such as USB drives, might not be quite as useful or sought after as they once were ...
Researchers devise AI that allows machines to learn just as fast as humans
From its first try, a computer can now draw handwritten characters from an unfamiliar language just as well as humans ...
Hard to crack and easy to remember password? Try a poem
"Please enter a strong password", is now an ubiquitous greeting whenever we try to register online. Security experts advise we ...
Celebrating Ada Lovelace: the first computer programmer (XIXth century)
In 1847, at the tender age of 27, Ada Lovelace became the world's first programmer, more than a hundred years ...
First ever optical chip to permanently store data developed
Material scientists at Oxford University, collaborating with experts from Karlsruhe, Munster and Exeter, have developed the world's first light-based memory ...
Prism-like bar code pattern might help make computers that use light instead of wires
A breakthrough in optical communications has been reported by Stanford engineers who used a complex algorithm to design a prism-like device ...
First computer made out of carbon nanotubes spells silicon demise in electronics
In an inspiring breakthrough, Stanford researchers have created the first ever working computer made entirely out of carbon nanotubes. The ...