Computing
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Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In The Near Future
We’re all generating data faster than storage providers can keep up, and that problem is only going to get worse. On Friday, Western Digital announced a potential game changer that promises to expand the limits of traditional HDDs to up to 40TBs using a microwave-based write head, and the company says it will be available…
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Australian Microchip Breakthrough Could Help Us Build A New Kind Of Computer
On Monday, a team of scientists in Australia announced an exciting breakthrough: For the first time, researchers were able to turn light into sound on a microchip. But — as crazy-sounding new physics applications tend to be — it’s probably going to be a long time before you see one of these chips on a…
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Even A ‘GigaGalactic Super Computer’ Would Take A Long Time To Crack 256-Bit Security
You’ve heard time and again that /”256-bit/” encryption is the bee’s knees when it comes to security. But what does that even mean? Encryption is a topic that can be quite complex, though this educational video from 3Blue1Brown does an excellent job of visualising how hard 256-bit is to “crack”.
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The Best macOS High Sierra Features You Probably Haven’t Heard Of Yet
At the start of the week Apple showed off some of the upcoming features in macOS HIgh Sierra, but the company’s keynote by no means covered everything in the desktop OS update. We’ve been using the developer beta of macOS 10.13 for the last few days and scouring the web to uncover some of the…