The world’s computers crunch through 9,570,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of data every year.
That’s 9.57 zettabytes. One zettabyte is 10 to the 21st power, or a million million gigabytes.
And if you still can’t get your head around that kind of number (I know I can’t), let’s convert it into average-sized books.
In book form, our …
Using techniques usually reserved for identifying epilepsy in patients, a team of scientists at Washington University were able to successfully have subjects move computer cursors using nothing but their thoughts.
To make it work, the scientists first utilized a temporary surgical implant attached to regions of the brain that pertain …
It’s back! The Commodore 64 computer you may fondly remember from your youth (assuming you were a youth back in the early 1980s) has returned from the place where old computers go to die, reborn as something that looks the same, but acts very different.
The outside is still deliciously two-tone brown, with huge clickety-clackety keys …
Consumers could be looking at higher prices on televisions, PCs and phones in the wake of the 9.0-magnitude earthquake that hit Japan last Friday.
Although the effects of the quake on Japan’s tech manufacturing industry are still unclear, major display panel makers such as Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics are facing shortages …
During HP’s recent announcement of its TouchPad tablet, it was revealed that the WebOS software running on the company’s line of tablets and smartphones would also find its way into other HP products—most notably, computers and printers.
There was some initial scuttle about what WebOS laptops and desktops might look like and how …
Attention, laptop-toting members of the global workforce: In an effort to maximize potential productivity to stratospheric levels, new portable computers with 30+ hour battery life will soon be entering the market.
Who to blame? Start with Lenovo. The company unveiled the ThinkPad T420 yesterday, promising that the machine “reaches …
Plenty of us spend hours using our laptops, smartphones, gaming consoles and other gadgets. They come with us everywhere, and when they malfunction or break, it’s often hard to go on without replacing them immediately. But can you actually be in love with a possession? Researchers at Arizona State University say it’s possible.
It’s …
If you thought Windows ’95 was archaic, think again. And if you’ve ever wondered how our phones got so smart or how the Internet works, you’re in luck.
The Computer History Museum opened an exhibit this week titled “Revolution: The First 2000 Years of Computing“, which covers everything from the abacus to the iPhone to robots to the …
We talked a little bit about the rumors of Best Buy’s Buy Back program. Well, it’s official: Best Buy is launching a resale program creatively called Buy Back for your old electronic products. Starting with three categories (smartphones, computing solutions which includes computers and tablets, and televisions), Best Buy hopes to appeal …
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show has officially drawn to a close. The biggest tech show around, CES covers over 3 million square feet of floor space and draws over 100,000 industry insiders to Las Vegas in early January every year to set the tone for what we can expect to see from the world of technology in the not-too-distant future. …
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In this week’s Technologizer column at TIME.com, I take a stab at answering technology’s longest-running question: “PC or Mac?” My answer won’t please everybody–it’s a topic that instantly sends some people into prickly, combative mode–but it’s the only one that makes sense: “It depends on what you’re trying to do, and how much money …
For a lot of guys, rifling through your dad’s hidden stash of Playboys was a right of passage. Hell, before the internet, Hef and his bunnies were probably responsible for initiating entire generations of inquisitive teenage guys awkwardly into puberty.
(More on TIME.com: Let’s Go Retro: Best Computer Games from the ’80s)
Well, for …
