Sequoia Supercomputer Tops Graph500 Rankings Again
Sequoia unmoved from top spot on Graph500's most powerful supercomputers
China's Tianhe-2 Caps Top 10 Supercomputers
China's Tianhe-2 outflanks U.S. systems to take No. 1 spot in Top500 list
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Adventures in Printing Food
3-D kitchen printers produce hits (a deep-fried scallop space shuttle) and misses (square milk)
Chef in a Box
In the kitchen of the future, a food compositor could fabricate haute cuisine from scratch
Intel Takes Aim at "Cool Technology"
The chip giant has a new CEO and a brand new structure
Here's Microsoft's New Kinect Sensor
The new Kinect was announced yesterday, and it's better. Way better.
Google and NASA Turn to New D-Wave Computer
A new Quantum Artificial Intelligence lab is the latest user of D-Wave's supposed quantum computer
The Bitcoin Arms Race Is On!
Powerful mining machines are changing the nature of the popular cryptocurrency
Samsung Imagines a Future With Mind-Controlled Tablets
A tablet controlled by the brain could help the disabled sooner than average consumers
Intel Versus the Dwindling PC Market
Questions about the company's mobile push and its business model again take center stage
A Big Step Toward a Silicon Quantum Computer
Control of nuclear spin is key to a practical silicon quantum computer
Would the Mob Really Break Your Virtual Kneecaps With Counterfeit Chips?
Apparently, the next chip security threat could come from organized crime, says IOActive
Movea’s Data Fusion Transforms Sensors Into Indoor Navigation
Software company Movea helps app developers corral the data from the sensors that pack today’s mobile devices
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Encryption Chip Fights Off Sneak Attacks
Processor obscures characteristics that enable side-channel attacks in cloud computing
Powerful ALMA Telescope Makes High-profile Debut
The international Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is officially open for business, although observations were already well underway
Chromebook Pixel: Too Much, Too Soon
The Pixel is more Chromebook than anyone needs, for more money than anyone should spend
The LHC Dumps Its Last Beam For Two Years
The particle accelerator is shutting down for repairs and upgrades that will finally let it run at top speed
The Existential Threat to Dell: Chromebooks
Michael Dell, Chromebooks will steal your market—and your fortune
CES 2013: Replacing the Game Board with a MultiTouch Computer
Intel’s vision of a family computer gets people out from behind their laptops and tablets
Google Gets in Your Face
Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality
Why Smart Glasses Might Not Make You Smarter
A Q&A with wearable-computer pioneer Steve Mann
Google Glass Features and Apps Still in Flux
Babak Parviz, head of the Google Glass project, hints at what to expect next
New Machine Puts Quantum Computers’ Utility to the Test
Quantum boson sampling machine could show whether future quantum devices will really be faster than conventional computers
Wearable Computers the Size of Buttons to Monitor Health
Will be especially helpful to monitor elderly patients prone to falls
The Incredible Shrinking Chip Industry
The field has narrowed considerably, especially when it comes to making advanced chips, GlobalFoundries CEO says
The Human Face Within Big Data
A new book sees big data as mostly good, a little scary, and full of people
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A Quantum Dot First: Electron-Photon Entanglement
A new way to entangle quantum bits made of light and matter could be a boost for quantum communication
Mirror, Mirror, On the Wall, Who's the Fastest of Them All?
With Oak Ridge’s 20 petaflop ‘Titan’ grabbing the supercomputing title, Top500.org re-ranks the field
Oak Ridge Unveils 20-Petaflop ‘Titan’ Supercomputer
New 299,008-CPU Cray XK7 will simulate nanomagnets, global climate, and turbulent combustion
Coffee-Can Radar
How to build a synthetic-aperture imaging system with tin cans and AA batteries
Touch Screens With Feeling
Engineers add texture to touch-screen devices
3 Deep
New displays render images you can almost reach out and touch
Best Supercomputers Still Not Best for Big Data
China’s new top-ranked supercomputer is at the top of the heap for some needs, but not for the kind of data sifting the NSA and Amazon.com do