hardware
This Guy Turned a 1995 PC Into a Mean Gaming Machine
The ultimate stealth computer includes a floppy disk drive that reads SD cards.
This Adorable Robot Can Change Colors Like a Chameleon
The bot can’t take on the full color spectrum just yet, but it’s already impressive.
Here's How You Can Learn to Build DIY Robots and LED Cubes
Thimble teaches people to code, build and hack with monthly electronics kits.
A Dream for a Computing World Without Sleep Mode
If we can make non-volatile RAM, we should be able to make computers that don't need sleep.
How To Break the Information Age Trance of 'Continuous Partial Attention'
Computer scientist Andreas Bulling wants to save attention spans from technology.
Intel Bets $16.7 Billion on the Massively Parallel Future of Computing
Why its acquisition of field-programmable chip-maker Altera matters.
Design Advance Could Mean Commercial Light-Based Processors Within a Few Years
But challenges remain.
Here’s What Happens Now When You Push The Radio Button On The Roku Remote
The streaming music service is no more, but its dedicated hardware button lives on.
Google Claims Its D-Wave Quantum Computer Is the Real Deal—Sort Of
A study posted this week shows the two-year-old machine beating out a classical computer 100 million times over.
A New SSD Design Uses Sound Waves, 'Singing' To Manipulate Data
Engineers implement racetrack memory using surface acoustic waves.
Happy 200th to George Boole, the Grandfather of Digital Logic
Almost a century before computers, Boole realized the universe can be computed.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Is About To Get a Precarious Memory Wipe
A complete rewrite, from 54 million kilometers away.