What is Quantum Computing?
Quantum computers are beginning to emerge in many industry and research labs. But what are qubits? And are the challenges ahead to control the quantum properties of our universe and leverage that for computing?
Futurology articles
IBM's new 2nm design can pack over 50 billion transistors onto a chip the size of a fingernail
Pushing the envelope of semiconductor manufacturing
Mark Zuckerberg envisions a future where you could use AR glasses to "teleport" for in-person meetings
He believes that future is only a decade away
Starlink beta testers are impressed with the Internet speeds on the new service
Not perfect, but better than expected
Researchers reach unseen data transmission speeds by tweaking fiber optics
Fast enough to download everything on Netflix in less than a second
Samsung reveals its vision of a 6G future: human-size holograms, 1 Tbps peak rate, 16K VR
Will science fiction become reality this decade?
Study shows that lettuce grown on the ISS is just as healthy as its Earth-grown counterpart
Great news for space colonization advocates
Scientists develop low-cost solution that generates electricity from air
Could battery-powered electronics soon be a thing of the past?
Arm brings AI and machine learning to IoT and the edge
Bringing machine learning to small, battery-powered devices
The Future of Tech: Gaming Consoles, the Xbox and PlayStation of Tomorrow
Consoles have come a very long way since the arrival of first-gen machines from Atari and Coleco in the seventies. Even the original PlayStation (1994) and Xbox (2001) look dated compared to today's machines, and that divide will grow even larger once the PS5 and Xbox Series X arrive at the end of 2020. But what about the future?
Scientists build a memory cell with electrical-optical duality
They've bypassed the need for electrical to optical converters
Researchers have used frog cells to create programmable living robots
They can swim, walk, and work together
A new type of DRAM might pave the way to instant-on PCs
The new tech could take the $100 billion memory market by storm
A New Orleans startup wants to scale up silicon nanoparticle production for better lithium-ion batteries
Using repurposed silicon from solar panels
AT&T and Microsoft partnership on network edge compute highlights future of cloud and 5G
Intelligent cloud, a connected edge, and a compute-enabled intelligent network?
Phil Spencer: VR won't be a focus of the next Xbox
The head of Xbox says nobody is asking for virtual reality
The Moon, Mars and Beyond: The Tech Behind the New Space Race
The summer of 2019 saw the 50 year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, when humans first walked on the surface of the Moon. But now there is a new race – not of countries, but one fought by companies. Capitalism, growth, and business opportunities are the new fuels, and the goals are even bigger: not just back to the Moon, but on to Mars and beyond.
UK and Australia space agencies are developing a hypersonic 'space plane'
Four-hour flights between London and Sydney could happen by 2030
The world's thinnest gold could revolutionize the electronics industry
One million times thinner than a human finger nail
Startup aims to bring its porous silicon battery to EVs and grid storage
The dream battery we've been waiting for?
The Future of Tech: The Desktop PC
In this first part of our "Future of Tech" series, we'll call some predictions about the next generation of PCs. Rather than dreaming far into the future, we'll try to go for the practical and feasible... evolutionary steps that we could easily see happen in the next five to fifteen years.
Intel announces Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs
The new Optane DIMMs could allow a single server to employ terabytes of memory