IBM has solved most of the science behind quantum computing. Time to make some money.

Do you know — 1 Gram of DNA Can Store 1,000,000,000 Terabyte of Data for 1000+ Years. Just last year, Microsoft purchased 10 Million strands of synthetic DNA from San Francisco DNA synthesis startup called Twist Bioscience and collaborated with researchers from the University of Washington to focus on using DNA as a data storage medium. However, in the latest experiments, a pair of researchers from Columbia University and the New York Genome Center (NYGC) have come up with a new technique to store massive amounts of data on DNA, and the results are marvelous.

Advanced Micro Devices shares fell for a second-straight day after the firm's new Ryzen line of desktop processors disappointed gamers.

The good news is that it doesn't have to suck, if you build it out properly.

Intel's architecture is still better, but AMD has significantly narrowed the gap.

A full operating system and film stored on DNA were recovered with no errors. The world is churning out so much data that hard-drives may not be able to...

It seems that Intel is getting nervous about the AMD Ryzen launch and has started to lower prices on their processors. The equivalent 6900K model however still is 999 USD, twice as much as the Ryzen flagship. Others like the quad-core processors do see a price cut. Also we think with a tiny bit of tweaking that 6900K might even get beaten or normalized by even a 329 USD Ryzen 7 1700 processor. The new prices have not gone into effect everywhere, here in the EU they are still at the same old level. In the USA etailers like Newegg also is listing older prices.

AMD's Ryzen high-end Summit Ridge CPUs have been priced—and it looks like Intel better batten down the hatches, or be ready to slash its prices to compete. At the top end the Ryzen 1800X will cost $500 (~£500), versus $1,100 (~£1,050) for the Intel Core i7-6900K that AMD is putatively pitching it against. Further down the stack there's the Ryzen 1700X for $400, which AMD is comparing against the $450 Core i7-6800K...

Intel’s latest and definitively greatest Xeon processor, the E7-8894 v4, has an MSRP of $8,898. There are other specs I can (and will) tell you about this, but really, that’s the most important one: $8,898. Now, to be clear, this is a professional-grade piece of hardware that’s really only meant for companies running servers with big databases. Sure, it’s set a whole bunch of benchmarking records, but it’s not really the kind of chip you’d use to play Overwatch. I’m not even sure you could use this to play Overwatch.

Many of the images created by Graphcore, which are technically graphs, are based on Microsoft's ResNet – a neural network that won the ImageNet classification competition in 2015. Since then, other ResNets have been developed. This image shows the full training graph for Microsoft Research ResNet-34 architecture hosted on Graphcore's IPU from December 2016. The image is coloured to highlight the density of computation resulting the glowing centre in the convolutional layers of the graph...

I am an active open source person by promoting and installing open source software on people's computers. For years actually and hardly any complaints. Then a birthday present arrives... :-) A nice letter, a Tux-sticker, a Tux-balloon and a 16 GB Tux-usb-stick (for those handy tools and software to take with me while helping people). :-)

At present the large scale adoption of a Cloud Computing model is most attractive to small businesses. Even in this sector there are some significant disadvantages that need to be carefully considered before committing. As with all things there are some Cloud Computing Pros and Cons that need to be considered, some of the Cloud Computing Cons are outlined below:

When I first got interested in computers, it was all but impossible for an individual to own a computer outright. Even a “small” machine cost a fortune not to mention requiring specialized power, ...

Phil Hogan, an IT application architect, estimates that close to 80 percent of the system is original.

Quantum computing. Quantum software. For most regular folks, these terms are enough to bring on a headache. Because math is hard enough. But quantum computing is on an entirely different level. And right now, only computer programmers and developers who have studied about quantum physics or advanced math can probably relate to what we are writing about. But that’s okay. This is what this news is supposed to change.

Ashley Williams kicked off her colorful "paint by number" keynote at Node.js Interactive by explaining that npm is actually a for-profit company.

It was only a few years ago that 4K panels were the cutting-edge technology on display at CES. For the last few years, we’ve seen 8K televisions popping up here and there, more as proof-of-concepts than actual practical products. Dell’s new display announcements aren’t just products the company plans to build some day; they’re cutting-edge hardware that’s coming to market this year.

The new year is upon us, and it’s time to look toward what the next 365 days have in store. As we are wont to do, Linux.com looks at what might well be the best Linux distributions to be found from the ever-expanding crop of possibilities. Of course, we cannot just create a list of operating systems and say “these are the best,” not when so often Linux can be very task-oriented. To that end, I’m going to list which distros will rise to the top of their respective heaps...according to task.

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

A team of international scientists have found a way to make memory chips perform computing tasks, which is traditionally done by computer processors like those made by Intel and Qualcomm. This means data could now be processed in the same spot where it is stored, leading to much faster and thinner mobile devices and computers. This new computing circuit was developed by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) in collaboration with Germany's RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Juelich, one of the largest interdisciplinary research centres in Europe.