A theoretical framework to identify computations that occupy the boundary at which problems become impossible for today's computers and can only be solved by a quantum computer

Huawei's HiKey 960 development platform aims to support the latest ARM technology for Android Open Source Project (AOSP) developers.

Imperas Software has become a member of the RISC-V Foundation, at the same time as it made virtual platform and model support available for the RISC-V architecture. RISC-V Foundation drives the adoption of the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) – a RISC architecture originally developed at the University of California, Berkeley, now touted as an open-source competitor to the ARM ...

An intrinsic photo-dielectric effect has been found in a ceramic by researchers at the University of Nagoya in Japan.

Apple has escalated its battle with Qualcomm by refusing to pay royalties to its contractors which are owed to Qualcomm. Consequently, Apple’s contractors won’t be able to pay Qualcomm which means there will be a hit to Qualcomm’s Q1 revenues. Instead of Qualcomm Q1 revenues of an estimated $5.3 billion – $6.1 billion these will now be $4.8 billion – ...

Providing fun STEM activities at school and home may spark interest and inspire confidence - at least in the US a study finds

Seven days after he joined Fairchild, Andy Grove got a surprise. On his first Friday he had handed in a report. The following Monday, he received a note saying: “I just read your report on MOS capacitors – very nice work.” It was signed ‘Bob’. “I thought I’d died and gone to heaven,” said Grove.

ZX Spectrum Next is a crowd-funded project to bring back the original in a form that will run the original games because it has a Z80 processor at its heart.

The US Navy has created a rechargeable aqueous zinc battery with performance approaching Li-ion cells. While useful in non-rechargeable applications – it is the basis for ‘alkaline cells’ – zinc electrodes tend to grow dendrites (whiskers) when charged, wrecking the cell. Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) have created nickel-zinc batteries with 3D sponge zinc anode instead of ...

I came across this neat 3d printed vice, created by someone called Naomi Wu. What I like about it is that it has no screw thread, and instead uses a pair of folding wedges, plus packing pieces. On top of this, some of the packing pieces have shapes cut from them to aid holding, and the whole thing packs into ...