Official benchmarks posted by Geekbench show that Apple's A11 Bionic delivers a huge jump in performance over last year's A10 Fusion used in iPhone 7, with scores that are not just far beyond other mobile ARM competitors' latest chips, but higher than the base Intel Kaby Lake Core i5 processor Apple uses in its 13 inch MacBook Pro.

Consider the 256 GB memory iPhone X: Implemented in vacuum tubes in 1957, the transistors in an iPhoneX alone would have cost 150 trillion of today's dollars, and one and a half times today's global annual product.

Google tracking is more pervasive than most people realize. We show you some alternatives to Google services to limit your exposure.

Researchers at International Business Machines Corp. have developed a new approach for simulating molecules on a quantum computer. The breakthrough, outlined in a research paper to be published in the scientific journal Nature Thursday, uses a technique that could eventually allow quantum computers to solve difficult problems in chemistry and electro-magnetism that cannot be solved by even the most powerful supercomputers today.

Beyond the picnic-table crisis. By John McPhee.

Australian researchers have found a breakthrough in manufacture of quantum computer. As the basic building blocks, this new type of qubit is able to facilitate large scale production of a quantum computer. However, the research is not one of its kind as far as manufacture of quantum computers is concerned. There are several ways to make one of these high-tech computers. Some may take up a few square feet, but to manufacture on a large-scale may requires thousands of square feet.

It seems some government customers can request Intel's always-on Management Engine (ME) 'master controller' for its CPUs to be disabled.

Six qubits is enough to determine the ground state of three simple molecules.

A company set up by Elon Musk to develop advanced biotechnology enhancements for the human brain has raised $27m (£20.9m) from 12 investors, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. 

For a large institution playing at the leadership-class supercomputing level, NASA tends to do things a little differently than its national lab and academic peers.

As recent high school graduates prepare for their migration to college in the fall, one item is sure to top most students’ shopping wish lists: a laptop computer. Laptops are ubiquitous on university campuses, and are viewed by most students as absolute must-have items, right alongside laundry detergent, towels, and coffee pots.

Cheaper, faster, and more feature-rich than Skylake-X—what's not to love?

This might be just what we've been waiting for to make silicon-based quantum computers scalable.

Inside the ridiculous media panic that scared parents silly. By Michael Z. Newman.

There are days in this profession in which I am surprised. The longer I stay in the technology industry, they become further and further apart. There are several reasons to be surprised: someone comes out of the blue with a revolutionary product and the ecosystem/infrastructure to back it up, or a company goes above and beyond a recent mediocre pace to take on the incumbents (with or without significant financial backing). One reason is confusion, as to why such a product would ever be thought of, and another is seeing how one company reacts to another.

More worrying than the internet’s role in the rise of far-right populism is the digital tsunami poised to engulf us: AI and and ‘crypto-anarchists’ are radically restructuring life – and politics – as we know it

The 2017 iPad Pro is a powerhouse, and it's the best iPad Apple has ever made. Find out why. When Steve Jobs introduced the original iPad, he positioned it in between an iPhone and MacBook (literally). He argued that a tablet device had to do some key things better than an iPhone and MacBook in order for it to exist. Those goals were arguably achieved, and now Tim Cook and Apple envision the iPad outright replacing traditional computing devices for the everyday user.

The budget computer wins 2017's MacRobert Prize at a ceremony in London.

The Rock64 Media Board Computer packs a lot onto a $25 board, offering 4K video playback, USB 3.0 and support for Android. The board may be a similar size to the best-selling $35 Raspberry Pi, but its specs help it to stand apart. The Rock64's video capabilities outstrip the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, with Rock64 capable of outputting 4K video at 60Hz, with support for HDR10, via HDMI 2.0a.

Debian is built for those who crave a system that will "just work" instead of being on the bleeding edge. We take a close look at the latest Debian 9 "Stretch" release.

Last week I made a video surrounded by old-school CRT monitors and televisions - cathode ray tubes. And I completely forgot to remove the high pitched whine they produce. Here's why: why they make that noise, and why I didn't notice it.

It’s exciting, but not for the reasons most tech journalists think it is.

IBM has launched a new mainframe system capable of running more than 12 billion encrypted transactions per day, in a bid to wade further into the financial cybersecurity market. The mainframe, called IBM Z, seeks to address cyberattacks which have compromised financial data. It also aims to help firms automate financial regulatory compliance, in line with confidentiality and data protection laws.

Computer simulations show that powerful streams of gas can leave one galaxy, travel across space, and get absorbed into another. By Marina Koren.

AI finally works—we just don’t know how. By Jordan Pearson.

China has done it again — except this time with a brand new supercomputer. The Sunway TaihuLight is now the fastest system in the world, according to the twice-per-year TOP500 list, with a stunning Linpack benchmark result of 93 petaflops. That makes it three times faster than the prior champion, China’s Tianhe-2, which we’ve covered numerous times on ExtremeTech and had sat on top of the list since it first went online in 2013.

Just 7.7% of devs are unpaid—because Linux development is worth paying for.

A new tech support scam Trojan is actively being distributed that allows the malware developers to remotely execute commands on an infected computer.

RAM (random access memory) is a component of every computer system, from tiny embedded controllers to enterprise servers. In the form of SRAM (static RAM) or DRAM (dynamic RAM), it’s where data is held temporarily while some kind of processor operates on it. But as the price of RAM falls, the model of shuttling data to and from big persistent storage and RAM may no longer hold. RAM is highly susceptible to market fluctuations, but the long-term price trend is steadily downward. Historically, as recently as 2000 a gigabyte of memory cost over $1,000 (£800 in those days); today, it’s just under $5 (~£5).

Apple may have introduced new MacBook Pros last week, but 2016 -- and most of the past few years, if we're being honest -- have been all about the dongles.

Can a fluid analogue of a black hole point physicists toward the theory of quantum gravity, or is it a red herring? By Natalie Wolchover.

Microsoft wants to make it clear that the last bits of MS-DOS, cmd.exe, aren’t going away.

To companies grappling with complex data projects powered by artificial intelligence, a system that Nvidia calls an “AI supercomputer in a box” is a welcome development. Early customers of Nvidia’s DGX-1, which combines machine-learning software with eight of the chip maker’s highest-end graphics processing units (GPUs), say the system lets them train their analytical models faster, enables greater experimentation, and could facilitate breakthroughs in science, health care, and financial services.

Tech companies are racing to create a new way of interacting with computers - artificial intelligence.