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World's first 8K TV to go on sale next month

• Chris Wood
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Sharp's 8K TV tech was on show at CES 2015 earlier this year, but until now it hasn't been available to buy. From next month, the company will begin taking orders in Japan for the first ever commercially available 8K TV. The panel, which offers a resolution 16 times that of Full HD, will enter the market at an eye-wateringly high price point.

 

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Angee automated home security system doubles as a personal assistant

• Antonio Pasolini
• September 18, 2015
• 8 PICTURES

The relentless march of technology has helped make home security systems a more affordable option for homeowners, while the ubiquity of home wireless networks has helped extend their capabilities and ease of use. San Francisco-based startup Angee Inc. is looking to take things a bit further by adding some computer smarts to create an automated security system that is portable and doubles as a personal assistant.

 

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China will have two 100 petaflop supercomputers in 2016 and they will use domestic chips

Within the next 12 months, China expects to be operating two 100 Petaflop computers, each containing (different) Chinese-made processors, and both coming online about a year before the United States’ 100 Petaflop machines being developed under the Coral initiative In a separate move to acquire mastery of microprocessor technologies, China’s state owned Tsinghua Unigroup has made a bid to acquire US semiconductor manufacturer...

 

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European Union 5G-Xhaul program to develop 10 gigabit per second cellular data by 2018

Xhaul aims at developing an adaptive, sharable,cost-efficient 5G transport network solution integrating the front haul and backhaul segments of the network. This transport network will flexibly interconnect distributed 5G radio access and core network functions, hosted on in-network cloud nodes,through the implementation of two novel building...
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For the latest advances in computers, hard drives, ram, ect.

TDK sets new hard drive density record, paves the way for 6TB HDDs

TDK sets new hard drive density record, paves the way for 6TB HDDs - TechSpot News

Solid state drives are continuing to build momentum as a speedy and rugged replacement for traditional spinning drive. TDK’s ongoing research into mechanical hard drives, however, suggests that we shouldn’t give up on the legacy technology just yet. The company recently announced a new milestone that will increase recording density in future drives by 50 percent.

The team at TDK have managed to achieve densities of 1.5TB per square inch by improving the magnetic head and hard disk medium with help from Showa Denko K.K. In layman’s terms, this new advancement will allow a single platter in a 3.5-inch desktop hard drive to achieve 2TB of storage. Add more platters to the mix and you’re now looking at hard drives reach 4TB and even 6TB in capacity.

Perhaps even more interesting is the impact it will have on 2.5-inch notebook drives. TDK says these smaller form factor HDDs will be able to achieve capacities of 1TB. This will allow users that aren’t yet sold on cloud storage to have a larger amount of data on hand at all times without having to lug around an external storage drive.

TDK will be showcasing the new technology at CEATEC this week although volume production isn’t expected to begin until sometime in 2014. At that point, one has to wonder just how far solid state drive technology will have come in terms of price versus capacity. This ratio has been the Achilles heel for SSDs thus far even as drives continue to be more affordable.

I just checked....my computer seems to be held together with nuts and bolts....not thread.


I may have gotten a newer one than you.....

The problem is much more likely to be hat your computer does not even know who the heck you are.

 

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Sony’s Project Morpheus is now PlayStation VR

by Mark Walton - Sep 15, 2015 10:15am BST

Sony's Project Morpheus is no more. The virtual reality headset, which is due for release in 2016, has been rebranded as the slightly less sci-fi PlayStation VR, Sony announced in Japan today. Name change aside, no changes appear to have been made to the headset itself, which was already a much sleeker unit than competitors like the HTC Vive.

http://arstechnica.c...playstation-vr/

 

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55-inch rollable TV prototype to be unveiled by LG

Imagine going into some consumer electronics retailer, asking the employee there to roll you one TV. It may sound ridiculous, frivolous and even offensive, but LG thinks otherwise.
The Korean manufacturer is working on a new OLED display of 55 inches that can bend or roll without damage. The rollable TV will be introduced at the International Consumer Electronics Show (ICES) in January 2016.

Many of you will think that this technology is useless and why would we roll the TV? But what if you need to move your TV somewhere? Or have a weekend for example and want there to watch movies on larger display. The possibilities are unlimited, and the ideas of their application can only be widened. In the video editing business, this display can be very useful. A rollable display will be portable, and will have sufficient size for the director and camera operators to have a nice view of what is being recorded at the moment.
Unlike existing curved televisions, LG’s rollable TV could create an easy-to-carry tube that could be carried as easily as a briefcase, and be installed wherever customers want to watch programs.
The device is still a prototype, meaning that it won’t be going into commercial production anytime sooner than 2017, although we suppose the possibilities for such a display could be endless.

 

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3D Computer Chips Could Be 1,000 Times Faster Than Existing Ones

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A new method of designing and building computer chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of, researchers say.
The new method, which relies on materials called carbon nanotubes, allows scientists to build the chip in three dimensions.
The 3D design enables scientists to interweave memory, which stores data, and the number-crunching processors in the same tiny space, said Max Shulaker, one of the designers of the chip, and a doctoral candidate in electrical engineering at Stanford University in California.

Reducing the distance between the two elements can dramatically reduce the time computers take to do their work, Shulaker said Sept. 10 here at the "Wait, What?" technology forum hosted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the research wing of the U.S. military.
Progress slowing
The inexorable advance in computing power over the past 50 years is largely thanks to the ability to make increasingly smaller silicontransistors, the three-pronged electrical switches that do the logical operations for computers.
According to Moore's law, a rough rule first articulated by semiconductor researcher Gordon E. Moore in 1965, the number of transistors on a given silicon chip would roughly double every two years. True to his predictions, transistors have gotten ever tinier, with the teensiest portions measuring just 5 nanometers, and the smallest functional ones having features just 7 nanometers in size. (For comparison, an average strand of human hair is about 100,000 nanometers wide.)
The decrease in size, however, means that the quantum effects of particles at that scale could disrupt their functioning. Therefore, it's likely that Moore's law will be coming to an end within the next 10 years, experts say. Beyond that, shrinking transistors to the bitter end may not do much to make computers faster.

 

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3D Carbon nanotube chips with processing and memory interwoven in layers can achieve over 1000 times compute speed and they havea demo chip

DARPA Risers Max Shulaker (Stanford) explains his ongoing research into enabling much faster, lower-power microchips. He spoke at DARPA's "Wait, What?" forum on Sept. 10, 2015. 3D carbon nanotube chips could lead to blisteringly quick processing at least 1,000 times faster than the best existing chips are capable of. The 3D design enables...

Physicists break distance record for quantum teleportation

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have "teleported" or transferred quantum information carried in light particles over 100 kilometers (km) of optical fiber, four times farther than the ...

 

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Oculus Connect 2 Day One: Revisiting Lucky, Henry and Oculus Touch

• Will Shanklin
• September 23, 2015
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Oculus' annual developer conference is underway, and before the company tells us what's new tomorrow, it's giving us all a refresher course on some demos we've seen before. We have a few thoughts after Day One of Oculus Connect 2.

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The first consumer-focused Samsung Gear VR will cost $99, launches this November

• David Nield
• September 24, 2015
• 5 PICTURES

At the Oculus Connect Developer Conference today, Samsung SVP Peter Koo announced a new Samsung Gear VR headset designed to give millions more users their first taste of VR: it's compatible with any 2015 Samsung smartphone and it costs just US$99 (half the price of the pre-consumer Gear VR Innovator Edition headsets).

 

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Advanced memristors are a pathway to affordable human scale neuromorphic artificial general intelligence

It may be possible to create neuromorphic human-level Artificial General Intelligence within 5 to 15 years for 30 to 100 thousand dollars, of marginal cost using memristors. The extreme complexity of the human cerebral cortex,featuring in particular ~10^14 synapses, makes the hardware implementation of neuromorphic networks with a comparable...

 

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• Oculus demos $99 Gear VR in push for mainstream virtual reality September 25, 2015 at 9:30 am
  A number of Oculus and VR-related announcements broke yesterday — here’s your quick roundup.
  
  
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  This AI algorithm can match the average American on real SAT questions September 25, 2015 at 8:28 am
  The amazing new GeoS AI can look at the exact same questions you do, parse them like you do, and answer them — just as well as you do.
  

 

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The first consumer-focused Samsung Gear VR will cost $99, launches this November

• David Nield
• September 24, 2015
• 5 PICTURES

At the Oculus Connect Developer Conference today, Samsung SVP Peter Koo announced a new Samsung Gear VR headset designed to give millions more users their first taste of VR: it's compatible with any 2015 Samsung smartphone and it costs just US$99 (half the price of the pre-consumer Gear VR Innovator Edition headsets).

Now I have to get my son one...

 

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Zuckerberg, Gates make bid for universal Internet access

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates on Saturday threw their weight and resources behind the goal of bringing Internet access to everyone in the world by 2020

 

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All-optical permanent on-chip memory paves the way for faster, more efficient computers

• Colin Jeffrey
• September 27, 2015

A new non-volatile optical memory has been created by researchers working at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the universities of Münster, Oxford, and Exeter. Utilizing innovative phase-change materials to store information, the new device promises to significantly improve processing speeds by effectively eliminating the existing bottleneck of having to convert optical signals into electrical signals for storage and then back again for transmission.

 

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New Chromecast, Chromecast Audio want to stream everything for you

• Eric Mack
• September 29, 2015
• 6 PICTURES

On Tuesday, Google announced that it has sold over 20 million Chromecasts the past few years and now hopes to sell more by launching an improved second generation HDMI streaming dongle alongside a streaming audio-only version. The company introduced the new Chromecast and the Chromecast Audio at its big media event alongside new Nexus phones and a new Pixel convertible tablet.

 

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Nanotube Electronics Could Be Operational Sooner Than Expected

Silicon transistors have become dramatically smaller in the last decades following Moore's Law - the observation that the number of transistors per unit area doubles every two tears. However, silicon transistor technology is approaching a point of physical limitation.

With Moore's Law running out of steam, shrinking the size of transistors - including the channels and contacts - without compromising performance is a research and manufacturing challenge. Carbon nanotube technology could lead to much smaller transistors and keep electronics and computing devices on the Moore's Law of exponentially decreasing size and thus increasing performance. However, as devices become smaller, increased contact resistance for carbon nanotubes has hindered performance gains until now.

 

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First 8K computer monitor expected this week October 5, 2015 at 7:30 am
The first 8K monitor is reportedly ready to roll, but there are unanswered questions about its capabilities.

 

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"What we have is a game changer," said team leader Andrew Dzurak, Scientia Professor and Director of the Australian National Fabrication Facility at UNSW.

"We've demonstrated a two-qubit logic gate - the central building block of a quantum computer - and, significantly, done it in silicon. Because we use essentially the same device technology as existing computer chips, we believe it will be much easier to manufacture a full-scale processor chip than for any of the leading designs, which rely on more exotic technologies.

"This makes the building of a quantum computer much more feasible, since it is based on the same manufacturing technology as today's computer industry," he added.

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