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Researchers who have used the biomolecule to encode MP3s, text files, and JPEGs say it will be a competitive storage medium in just a few decades.
Toy designer Wayne Losey’s articulating, snap-to-build ModiBots are an example of how 3-D printing can bring life to products and toys that didn’t have the commercial success needed to keep them on store shelves.
Filabot promises to help turn your plastic crap into 3-D printed fanciness, alleviating one of the biggest sustainability problems for 3-D printing.
You’ve heard the complaints. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is too unwieldy and too outdated for tech titans such as Apple, Amazon, Google and Microsoft to even show up in Las Vegas.
The modern Internet was invented 30 years ago this month.
It was a huge year for 3-D printing technology, which touched everything from sports to chemistry to firearms.
Babak Parviz, a key engineer on Google's Project Glass, just revealed some new details about the wearable-computing project in an interview with IEEE Spectrum.
The same way that personal computing became a hotbed of innovation in the early 1970s, 3D printing seems to be experiencing a similar renaissance.
The promise of desktop 3D printing — making your own toys, parts, models and more — faces one big barrier: existing 3D printers sure cost a lot.
So you've decided to jump into the world of 3D printing. Time to pick out your hardware.
In what is likley a significant development for the future of optical communications, IBM researchers have managed to shrink optical components to fit alongside their electrical counterparts on a single chip.
Garry Kasparov, former World Chess Champion and possibly the greatest chess player of all time, thinks the U.S. has become complacent when it comes to innovation.
The human brain, arguably the most complex object in the known universe, is a truly remarkable power-saver:
The next-generation Xbox will be tricked out with heavy-duty computing power according to a report in Xbox World, a Xbox focused magazine.
Current hard-drive designs are reaching their limit in data storage, but a new manufacturing technique could allow drive capacities to keep expanding.
Increasing the ways users can prod touch screens could open up new features on mobile devices.
Current hard-drive designs are reaching their limit in data storage, but a new manufacturing technique could allow drive capacities to keep expanding.
The CEO of ARM says power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers.
Intel missed out on the shift to mobile computing. Now it finds itself in a precarious position.
We are often surprised by the speed of the latest computer or smartphone, but the supercomputers that do the world's craziest calculations will always put our dinky consumer electronics to shame.
Five years from now, says Intel, your phone could double as a supercomputer.
After falling behind Asia and Europe in the great race, where success is measured in FLOPS (floating-point operations per second), the US has struck back at the new high-tech Olympians with Titan: quite possibly the fastest supercomputer in the world
I.B.M. scientists are reporting progress in a chip making technology that is likely to ensure the shrinking of the size of the basic digital switch at the heart of modern microchips for more than another decade.
Google and Samsung are expected to unveil a new 10-inch tablet called the Nexus 10 at the big Android press event in New York on October 29.
SecureBox brings iTwin's hardware security to Dropbox accounts
Today Google lifted the veil off its massive and beautiful data centers around the world.
Startup lands $55 million for "microserver" design that uses low-power ARM processors normally used in cell phones.
Mr. Ricci issued an ultimatum: Mr. Phillips could sell his firm to Mr. Ricci or be sued for patent infringements. When Mr. Phillips refused to sell, Mr. Ricci’s company filed the first of six lawsuits.
Apple's brand is an outgrowth of its product design—and both are the envy of every other company on the planet.
A tribute to Steve Jobs and the legacy he has left the world.