Likely getting tired of tons of leaks, seems like Google wants to take control of the Pixel 3 story: it’s finally announced that it will launch third-generation Pixel phones on October 9 in New York Google is most likely to launch two variants of the new Pixel phones; the Pixel 3 and the Pixel 3 […]
For as much as Apple tries to keep important details about its next-gen iPhone lineup under wraps, the leaks have not slowed down in the slightest over the past few years. If anything, the leaks, despite Apple’s best efforts, have only increased. Last year for example, a rogue Apple employee released an iOS 11 GM […]
One day in the not-so-distant future, light sails may hurtle through space at speeds of around 20% of the speed of light (or 60,000 km/sec), propelled not by fuel but rather by the radiation pressure from high-power lasers on Earth. Traveling at these relativistic speeds, laser-powered light sails could reach our nearest neighboring star (other […]
Nearly 150 years ago, the physicist James Maxwell proposed that a circular lens that is thickest at its center, and that gradually thins out at its edges, should exhibit some fascinating optical behavior. Namely, when light is shone through such a lens, it should travel around in perfect circles, creating highly unusual, curved paths of […]
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently developed a neural network that predicts, with a relatively high level of accuracy, the likelihood a person has a cognitive impairment. If you don’t mind speaking loosely, you could call it a depression detector. It’s not, but we’ll get into that later. The team, consisting of […]
Reduced entropy in a three-dimensional lattice of super-cooled, laser-trapped atoms could help speed progress toward creating quantum computers. A team of researchers at Penn State can rearrange a randomly distributed array of atoms into neatly organized blocks, thus performing the function of a “Maxwell’s demon”—a thought experiment from the 1870s that challenged the second law […]
Yale University researchers have demonstrated one of the key steps in building the architecture for modular quantum computers: the “teleportation” of a quantum gate between two qubits, on demand. The findings appear online Sept. 5 in the journal Nature. The key principle behind this new work is quantum teleportation, a unique feature of quantum mechanics […]
Amazon has the Echo Connect refurbished for just $24.99. This device sells for $35 brand new and the refurbs only have a limited stock. If you still have a landline phone and use it quite often, the Echo Connect can add a little smart functionality to it. You’ll be able to connect your home phone […]
At this point, it’s pretty clear that not only Is the Apple Watch the king of the smartwatch hill, but it’s going to stay that way for the time being — a reality that new data out from IDC covering the second quarter helps to reinforce. IDC’s Worldwide Quarterly Wearable Device Tracker report shows Apple […]
Business users of Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure services had a hard time getting their work done Tuesday as the software giant reported widespread outages that resulted from temperatures overheating in one of its data centers. Microsoft said the problem occurred at a facility in Texas and impacted Azure users in the south-central area of the United […]
Chrome is turning ten, and it’s getting a makeover to celebrate. Google today announced a wide set of changes coming to the world’s most popular browser – some aesthetic, and some functional. Most notably, the app now has a flatter, rounder design more in line with Google’s Material Design principles; these changes will be seen […]
Quantum computers have long been touted as incredibly powerful machines that will be able to solve hugely complex computational problems much faster than any computer we have available today. But no-one can agree on the best way to make them. Who will win the race? Superfast quantum computers could speed up the discovery of new […]
