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Sep 15, 2023

Apple's MacBook Pro is reduced again

The latest MacBook Pro has had $200 snipped off of the price just weeks after we thought the deal was gone. We cover a lot of deals here at LiveScience, and you have to move fast. Not long ago, we covered Amazon's discount of the 14-inch MacBook Pro, and the...

Sep 19, 2023

Best laptops for students 2024: Get the perfect laptop for college

Best laptops for students: Quick List 1. Best overall 2. Best value 3. Best creative 4. Best Windows 5. Best cheap MacBook 6. Best 2-in-1 7. Best premium 2-in-1 8. Best eco-friendly 9. Best all-rounder 10. Most stylish 11. Tech buying advice 12. How we test Student life can be...

Nov 3, 2023

This MacBook Pro great for coding has a whopping $750 off

Get a huge discount on a powerful MacBook Pro at B&H Photo with this 'Holiday Head Start' deal. Apple's latest event revealed a host of new Mac models with the M3 family of chips, and that's led to retailers discounter older M-series Macs. That's great news for anyone looking to...

Dec 11, 2023

Scientists just built a massive 1,000-qubit quantum chip, but why are they more excited about one 10 times smaller?

IBM has announced its first quantum computing processor that exceeds 1,000 qubits, or quantum bits. That makes it the second-largest chip ever made, but researchers are far more excited about one that's a tenth that size. The 1,121-qubit IBM Quantum Condor chip is built on the architecture of its previous...

Dec 11, 2023

Best laptops for coding & programming 2024: Powerful portable computers

By investing in one of the best laptops for coding and programming we can create games, earn money by enhancing e-commerce platforms for our careers and invite a whole new world of STEM learning to kids. All while being on the go, instead of tied to a desk in the...

Dec 22, 2023

History of computers: A brief timeline

The history of computers goes back over 200 years. At first theorized by mathematicians and entrepreneurs, during the 19th century mechanical calculating machines were designed and built to solve the increasingly complex number-crunching challenges. The advancement of technology enabled ever more-complex computers by the early 20th century, and computers became...

Jan 12, 2024

CES 2024: The best laptops for students

If you're holding out for a new machine, there are plenty to choose from now that CES 2024 has come to an end. As always, laptop makers have used it to showcase the many devices set to launch in the months ahead — including those best suited for students. While...

Jan 29, 2024

How could this new type of room-temperature qubit usher in the next phase of quantum computing?

Scientists have built a qubit, or quantum bit, that can achieve quantum coherence at room temperature — something normally only possible at temperatures close to absolute zero. To achieve quantum coherence — a stable state in which the weird laws of quantum mechanics can be observed — qubits must normally...

Feb 1, 2024

World's 1st fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year ahead of a 10,000-qubit machine in 2026

The world's first commercial fault-tolerant quantum computer with logical qubits may be running before the year's end. Logical qubits — physical quantum bits, or qubits, connected through quantum entanglement — reduce errors in quantum computers by storing the same data in different places. This diversifies the points of failure when...

Feb 20, 2024

World's 1st PC rediscovered by accident in UK house clearance nearly 50 years after last sighting

Two Q1 microcomputers, widely considered to be the first single-microchip PCs, have been found by house clearers in the U.K. The discovery brings the total number of known surviving units to three in the world. Employees from the house-clearing company Just Clear found the two Q1s buried under several boxes...

Feb 24, 2024

Qubits are notoriously prone to failure — but building them from a single laser pulse may change this

Scientists have created an error-free quantum bit, or qubit, from a single pulse of light, raising hopes for a light-based room-temperature quantum computer in the future. While bits in classical computers store information as either 1 or 0, qubits in quantum computers can encode information as a superposition of 1...

Mar 8, 2024

New DNA-infused computer chip can perform calculations and make future AI models far more efficient

Scientists have created a new biocomputing chip that makes calculations using a DNA substrate, including mathematical operations essential to artificial intelligence (AI) training and big data processing. Researchers described the new biocomputing platform Oct. 19, 2023, in the journal PLOS One. DNA is known as the blueprint for life and...

Mar 14, 2024

World's largest computer chip WSE-3 will power massive AI supercomputer 8 times faster than the current record-holder

Scientists have built the world's largest computer chip — a behemoth packed with 4 trillion transistors. The massive chip will one day be used to run a monstrously powerful artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputer, its makers say. The new Wafer Scale Engine 3 (WSE-3) is the third generation of the supercomputing...

Mar 18, 2024

Computing 'paradigm shift' could see phones and laptops run twice as fast — without replacing a single component

A new approach to computing could double the processing speed of devices like phones or laptops without needing to replace any of the existing components. Modern devices are fitted with different chips that handle various types of processing. Alongside the central processing unit (CPU), devices have graphics processing units (GPUs),...