Inside the race to achieve the singularity—before Moore’s law runs out

AI optimists envision a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) surpasses human intelligence, but the path remains ...
Nature

Microsoft team creates 'revolutionary' data storage system that lasts for millennia

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...
The Economist

Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

Perovskites, named after a mineral discovered in the Urals in the 19th century, are compounds with the chemical formula ABX 3, where A and B are positively charged metal ions and X is a negatively ...
Tech Xplore

Laser-etched glass can store data for for 10,000 years, Microsoft says

Thousands of years from now, what will remain of our digital era? The ever-growing vastness of human knowledge is no longer stored in libraries, but on hard drives that struggle to last decades, let ...

Is this glass square the long, long future of data storage?

Researchers say a palm-sized piece of glass could store the equivalent of 2 million books for over 10,000 years.
Hackaday

Retro Rover: LT6502 Laptop Packs 8-Bit Power On The Go

Making your own laptop can be a challenging project, but a doable one, especially given the large number of options available today for computing. Of course nothing says you need to use a modern ...