In March 2016, my friend and I founded devRant - a fun community for devs to vent, share, and bond over how they really feel about code, tech, and life as a programmer.

You don't have a flying car, jetpack, or ray gun, but this is still the future. How do I know? Because we're all surrounded by artificial intelligence. I love when friends ask me when we'll develop smart computers...because they're usually holding one in their hands. Your phone calls are routed with artificial intelligence. Every time you use a search engine you're taking advantage of data collected by 'smart' algorithms. When you call the bank and talk to an automated voice you are probably talking to an AI...just a very annoying one.

malware on your computer can poison your monitor's firmware, creating nearly undetectable malware implants that can trick users by displaying fake information, and spy on the information being sent to the screen.

This level of data processing is impossible for our feeble human minds, but a walk in the park for AI systems.

Rhombus's vision is to make the guts of the computer into a swappable card, which you can upgrade easily when the new model comes out, keeping your keyboard/chassis/screen, etc. You can literally plug in a new CPU -- or swap your CPU into a variety of devices. (Laptops, phones, tablets -- all powered by the same motherboard

Seen multiple reports that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update deletes other partitions (containing Linux installs) without asking. :S

The future of the quantum computer is already bright, but this new variation on the ultra-powerful new tech can do what none other can: It can be reprogrammed on the fly to crunch new algorithms. While computer scientists worldwide have already built dozens of small, simple quantum computers—machines that use the mind-bending physics of atoms to solve complex math in simple steps—they've been almost entirely "rigid" devices. Basically single-use computers that can't be reprogrammed to do new things after they've been built. But a team of scientists led by Shantanu Debnath at the...

No, it’s not only you—some user interfaces today intentionally want to confuse and enroll. By Yael Grauer.

Maybe in a decade or two the spinning disk will make a comeback, the way vinyl LPs and vacuum tube amplifiers have. “Data that comes off a mechanical disk has a subtle warmth and presence that no solid-state drive can match,” the cogniscenti will tell us.

The resurrected VAIO has gone for the premium and businessy ends of the market with most of its laptops so far, but the company's latest announcement targets different customers altogether — albeit customers that still have quite a lot of money to spend. The C15 series' main selling point is its striking range of colorways, including white / copper, navy / gray, yellow / black, and orange / khaki options; VAIO describes it as a "fashionable PC."

Her computer, Karin Strauss says, contains her "digital attic"—a place where she stores that published math paper she wrote in high school, and computer science schoolwork from college. She'd like to preserve the stuff "as long as I live, at least," says Strauss, 37. But computers must be replaced every few years, and each time she must copy the information over, "which is a little bit of a headache." It would be much better, she says, if she could store it in DNA—the stuff our genes are made of. Strauss, who works at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, is working to make that sci-fi fantasy a reality.

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.

We present a compiler that can automatically turn assemblies of high-level shape primitives (tubes, sheets) into low-level machine instructions.

Your smartphone is an incredibly powerful computer. You already do a lot on your smartphone: it's convenient, portable, and holds all of your apps, files, and contacts. In fact, you could accomplish a lot more with it, but are often held back by its small screen size and limited mobile interface. That's why we created the Superbook - to remove those restrictions and give you the freedom of using just one computer. What is the Superbook? At its core, the Superbook is a smart laptop shell that provides a large screen, keyboard and multi-touch trackpad, 8+ hours of battery, and phone charging capabilities.

One of the most interesting stories in the history of computing surrounds the dominant word processor of the late 1970’s and early 1980’s — Wordstar.

Ubuntu hasn’t had the best reputation among Linux users over the past few years–with some even going so far as to call it “boring”. If you’ve been hesitant to try it out, then hold on to your seats–Ubuntu 16.04 “Xenial Xerus” is not only an exciting release, but one that has the potential to be a game changer for the Linux ecosystem.

Microsoft’s Windows 10 message hasn’t always been clear. They’ve declared the Windows 10 upgrade will be free for the first year and that going forward they’ll be pushing “Windows 10 as a service.

Using this new data storage technique, you could fit the entire Library of Congress on a cube smaller than a dust mite—or the size of George Washington's pupil on a one dollar bill. A team of nanoscientists led by Sander Otte at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has just unveiled the densest method ever developed to store re-writable digital data. By scooting around individual chlorine atoms on a flat sheet of copper, the scientists could write a 1 kilobyte message at 500 terabits per square inch.

Much of the current research in quantum computing involves work at close to absolute zero. A simple breakthough with an everyday material could see them work at more acceptable temperatures.

Using a small quantum system consisting of three superconducting qubits, researchers at UC Santa Barbara and Google have uncovered a link between aspects of classical and quantum physics thought to be unrelated: classical chaos and quantum entanglement. Their findings suggest that it would be possible to use controllable quantum systems to investigate certain fundamental aspects of nature.