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Klipsch unveils the first Dolby Atmos soundbar with Dirac Live elite room correction – and it's crammed with extra features too

By Carrie Marshall published

Dirac's room correction means this soundbar should sound superb.

Windows 11 24H2 strikes a sour note as audio bug hits the update, leaving some PCs silent

By Kristina Terech published

New Windows 11 24H2 bug silences some PCs, and Microsoft has blocked the update for affected devices while it works on a fix.

Nobel Laureate backs Cambridge-based crowdfunding effort to digitize 100,000 hours of recordings from some of the brightest minds in human history

By Efosa Udinmwen published

A Cambridge-led project seeks funds to digitize and restore 100,000 hours of historic scientific recordings featuring leading global thinkers.

'A virtual DPU within a GPU': Could clever hardware hack be behind DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency?

By Wayne Williams published

DualPipe could be the secret to DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency.

Denon's new 8K-ready, 13.4-channel AV receiver has four subwoofer outputs and Dirac Live support for the ultimate in bass

By Carrie Marshall published

Denon launches a more affordable model of A-series AVR

Diamond-based electronics could help power your laptop one day — as researchers claim hardest semiconductor holds key to carbon-neutrality in energy market

By Wayne Williams published

Diamond-based electronics could lead to lower costs in shipping, transportation, and installation.

Laser Processing Units could give traditional CPUs, GPUs and quantum computers a run for their money - but don’t expect them to run Windows anytime soon

By Wayne Williams published

LightSolver is developing a Laser Processor Unit it claims can challenge quantum systems and GPUs.

Fancy a drone destroyer? Someone transformed a Framework 16 laptop into a UAV killer thanks to a custom SDR module

By Wayne Williams published

A hardware designer has developed a drone jammer using a custom SDR module for the Framework modular laptop.

PsiQuantum plans to build world’s first large scale fault tolerant million qubit quantum computers for solving some of the world’s most complex scientific problems

By Wayne Williams published

PsiQuantum raises $1 billion to accelerate development of million qubit quantum computers and begin building utility scale systems in Australia and the US.

Here's how Nvidia and AMD hardware are being used in surprising ways to build Nvidia's fastest GPU ever

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia and AMD hardware are both being used with Cadence tools to create the fastest GPUs yet.

You have to see Dark Matter's stunning wired earbuds, which have up to 8(!) drivers in stunning designs

By Carrie Marshall published

These high-end IEMs have more drivers than Fed-Ex

Vertere's elite DG X turntable is modular, expensive, and hugely desirable

By Becky Scarrott published

UK-based turntable specialist Vertere's new and easy-to-set-up turntable is for audiophiles and fledgling vinyl lovers alike – if they can afford it.

Move over, Rolls-Royce – America’s first homegrown ultra-luxury vehicle in almost a century is here to steal its crown

By Leon Poultney published

With styling inspired by 1930s Streamliner cars and an all-natural interior, Dacora wants to take on the biggest names in the luxury car business.

Clever ‘light switch’ breakthrough could make hyperscale networks 1000x faster, just in time for AGI and superintelligence

By Wayne Williams published

Finchetto unveils photonic switch that could outpace electronics a thousandfold, reshaping hyperscale networking for the AGI era.

Tech startup proposes a novel way to tackle massive LLMs using the fastest memory available to mankind

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft-backed d-Matrix's Corsair PCIe card has 2GB of SRAM performance memory.

'Today’s computers are horribly inefficient': How a US startup is going Apple's way — combining hardware and software to crack AI's big 99% power consumption problem

By Wayne Williams published

Efficient Computer has created a "post-von Neumann processor" that combines hardware and software to be more efficient.

Sandisk recruits RISC cofounder, AMD graphics legend to spearhead cheaper rival to HBM — high bandwidth flash could bring SSD-capacities to AI GPUs without the cost

By Wayne Williams published

Sandisk brings in RISC and GPU pioneers to lead development of HBF, a cheaper HBM alternative.

A critical Docker Desktop security flaw puts Windows hosts at risk of attack, so patch now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Docker recently patched a critical bug in Windows and macOS but it's a little more dangerous on the former.

'No one knows yet': Donut design could create quadrillion-transitor compute monster — analysts discuss unusual interconnection as Cerebras CEO acknowledges that we don't know what happens when multiple WSEs are connected

By Wayne Williams published

Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine excelled at a scientific simulation, but could do even better if multiple WSEs were lashed together.

MIT researchers say nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials promise more efficient electronics; quantum mechanics offers a path beyond silicon limits

By Wayne Williams published

MIT researchers say nanoscale 3D transistors promise more efficient electronics.

"Something the world has never seen before" – revolutionary cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions; could be used for scaling quantum computing and in space tech

By Wayne Williams published

Cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions and could be used in quantum computing and space tech.

This is the first quantum computer you can actually buy (and use, and power): Equal1's Bell-1 uses a standard power socket

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Equal1’s Bell-1 redefines HPC by delivering quantum acceleration in a standard server rack, making it a game-changer for high-performance computing.

Scientists stored data in rare-earth crystal which could one day delivery terabyte-class storage the size of a small grain of rice

By Wayne Williams published

Scientists have found a way to use atomic level defects in crystals as a method of data storage.

Future computers will have chips made with exotic materials rather than silicon — and this little-known Swiss startup wants to be a big part of this

By Wayne Williams published

Swiss firm Chiral has a solution for integrating nanomaterials into devices, replacing silicon.

Faster than SRAM! New flash memory tech from China is millions of times faster than NAND rivals from US, Japan or Korea - but please change its name

By Wayne Williams published

Chinese researchers claim to have developed the fastest non volatile flash memory to date, but it needs a better name than PoX.

Only 'limited by your imagination': Gallium Nitride breakthrough could make LED displays more affordable and convert your smartphone screen into an antenna

By Wayne Williams published

Gallium Nitride breakthrough could make LED displays more affordable and convert your smartphone screen into an antenna

British startup launches low-power RISC-V processor design to address the twin problems of memory and energy; promises up to 50% faster calculation speeds

By Wayne Williams published

British startup launches low-power RISC-V processor design to address the twin problems of memory and energy.

Python rejects $1.5m US government grant to avoid compromising ethics with anti-DEI policies

By Ellen Jennings-Trace published

Anti-DEI requirements pose ‘enormous, open-ended financial risks’, Python Software Foundation argues.

An alleged 7-Zip zero-day is actually an AI hoax

By Luke Hughes published

Comments by Igor Pavlov on the file compression software's page on the Sourceforge.net repository seemingly put an end to the saga - for now?

HiFi Rose RD160

HiFi Rose's new DAC costs more than my entire hi-fi system, and I still want it

By Becky Scarrott published

The HiFi Rose RD160 DAC looks elegant, ethereal and oh-so expensive – because it is.