“The iPhone 13 is powered by a new chip designed by Apple: the A15 Bionic. Executives called the chip the “fastest CPU in any smartphone.” It uses 5-nanometer technology and includes 15 billion transistors, a 6-core CPU and 4-core GPU. The technology will give the iPhone improved machine learning capabilities, such as real-time video analysis and the […]
Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, is auctioning off his invention’s source code as an NFT. Although the groundbreaking code has long been in the public domain, the British computer scientist has now authorized the sale of a single edition of his original time-stamped files. Comprising over 9.500 lines of code, the files contain the […]
In this flashback video, Steve Wozniak takes us on a personal journey through the early years at Apple:
Researchers at Oxford University have set a new speed record for the ‘logic gates’ that form the building blocks of quantum computing – a technology that has the potential to dwarf the processing power of today’s classical computers. The Oxford team is using a trapped-ion technique to develop its computer, in which logic gates place […]
A recent news article (in the NZ Herald) indicated some hope in the chase to find effective cancer cures. It noted, “A cancer forms when a cell in the body goes awry, multiplying out of control to form a tumour. A typically-sized cancer tumour is made up of more cells than there are people on […]
At the calculating roots of our high school math courses was a rather crude looking computer called the Apple 1. Guess what? A model of the Apple-1 (above) recently sold for a stratospheric $US905,000 by Bonhams auction house! This was a working model of the Apple-1 and among the 50 models that were assembled by […]
The National Security Agency (NSA) recently opened their new data collection centre in Bluffdale, Utah. The new $1.5 billion dollar facility covers nearly one square kilometre just outside Salt Lake City. The low, four-level facility spans 93,000 square metres and requires 3,800 cubic metres of water and 65 megawatts of electricity per day. The electric bill […]
As the previous post indicated, Mathematics is at the heart of every top sport – whether in the data collection and analysis or in the calculation of successful equations to balance performance against each parameter. In this article from WhyDoMath the goal in yacht design is to find the most efficient shape of the hull its […]
