technology - "computer"

Hamburg - Many data backup programs are either difficult to use or not completely reliable, testing has shown. In the worst cases, the software suffers from both defects. That was the finding of a recent study by the Hamburg-based computer Bild magaz...

Munich - It's no longer quite right to speak of a processor in terms of a single chip. The heart of a computer has long been composed of several chips and other elements on a circuit board, collectively called a processor. To underscore the point, pr...

prunedude writes 'The NY times is reporting that an American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the I.B.M. BlueGene/L. To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D'Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.' of this story at Slashdot.

Computerworld takes a look at the development and the future of e-paper. Brought into the mainstream by e-book readers such as the Kindle, e-paper is rapidly becoming its own industry. The article notes some of the current limitations of the technology and looks ahead to a few of the upcoming ideas, such as the Fujitsu Fabric PC. Quoting: 'The resolution of EPD screens is improving rapidly. Active-matrix displays like those used on the current generation of e-book readers can work at relatively high resolutions (the Kindle screen displays 167 pixels per inch), and Seiko Epson recently showed off an A4-size (13.4-in.) display prototype with 3104 by 4128 resolution, about 385 ppi, that uses E Ink's electrophoretic ink on a Si-TFT glass substrate.' of this story at Slashdot.