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Watch DARPA’s Robot Arms Perform The World’s Slowest Pit Stop
Replacing fighter planes and reconnaissance aircraft with robotic drones turned out to be a far easier task for the military than replacing soldiers with bots. But DARPA remains determined to one day enlist robots for all military jobs, and, among other research, it’s working hard to develop a relatively low-cost set of artificial arms and hands that can perform everyday mundane tasks.
64-Bit Smartphone CPUs In 2014
The Cortex A53 and A57 are ARM’s latest and greatest mobile chipset designs, another important leap in its quest to get its mobile chipsets closer in performance to desktop CPU. Designed for single-core or multi-core configurations, the products made from these designs will be the first mobile chipsets to support 64-bit processing.
Intel: Windows 8 On ARM Is An Uphill Fight
Windows 8 is stirring up a fair deal of controversy for Microsoft. Now, Intel has come out as saying that it thinks that running the new OS on ARM hardware is going to prove difficult.
Is Microsoft Planning To Limit Your Browser Choice On Windows 8 Tablets?
If you’re used to freely choosing which browser you use in Windows, brace yourself: Mozilla is claiming that Microsoft is planning to limit user choice for browsers on tablets running Windows 8.
Can Windows 8 Tablets Succeed Where Android Has Faltered?
Despite a couple of years of competition, Android tablets haven’t made the kind of impact into iPad sales and adoption that their manufacturers would have hoped. This year will see the re-emergence of Windows tablets. Can they topple Apple at the tablet game?
ARM Cranks Out 3.1GHz Mobile CPU
Currently, high-end mobile CPUs are clocked in the 800-1500MHz range, depending on the manufacturer and core count. The Samsung-built Apple A5X in the iPad 2 and 3, for example, is clocked at 1GHz, while NVIDIA’s Tegra 3, which utilises ARM’s Cortex-A9, is set to 1.3GHz in the ASUS Transformer (1.4GHz in single-core mode).
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