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How The Hell Does A Quantum Computer Work?
You’ve probably heard people — including us — banging on about quantum computers for a long ol’ time. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately, this video is here to help.
Monster Machines: China Has The World’s Fastest Supercomputer
Watson may have been able to trounce a pair of Jeopardy champs, but it can’t hold a candle to the new king of number crunching, the 3.12 million-core Tianhe-2. Built by China’s National University of Defense Technology at the National Supercomputer Center in Guangzho, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer runs on a proprietary Linux build.
OS X Mavericks First Impressions: A Little Good Going A Long Way
Mavericks is the first OS X release since Snow Leopard that doesn’t constantly make you stop, consider a new feature that has just made your life worse in some incomprensible way, and then hope very hard that this is a bug, because it cannot possibly be an intended feature. And because the world is essentially a good place where people (like software engineers) do not deliberately inflict things like Launchpad on good, hardworking people.
What iOS 7 Looks Like On Your iPad
There’s no tablet flavour of the iOS 7 beta, but using a simulator feature on Apple’s XCode developer platform, German site Apfelpage has given us a look at what the next-gen operating system will look like on the iPad. Aside from a few changes, it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve already seen from iOS 7.
First Active Noise-Cancelling Computer Fan Will Finally Shut Your Computer Up
If you have a powerful desktop, it probably sounds like a jet engine. You could opt for watercooling, but if you stick with fans you’re out of luck. They’re just loud. Until you bolt on some active noise-cancelling.
What If Apple Had Released An Entirely Different Mac?
In case you missed it earlier this week, Apple announced a brand spankin’ new Mac at WWDC. It’s quite the departure from previous Macs, but it’s somehow familiar. Here’s a quick video recap of all the excitement.
Our Mums’ Computer Keyboards Looks Like This
Mums are the best. They brought you into the world, they raised you, they loved you, and they took care of you. In fact, what they’re not the best at is a very short list. Actually, it’s just one thing: computers. No matter how easy it is to use a computer, mums will always find a way to freeze the screen and/or forward cute emails.
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