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This Video Chat Software Runs in Terminal, Renders Your Face in ASCII

If you find Skype a little too… polished, then why not use your computer’s abilities in a rather more retro way? p2pvc is a point-to-point color video chat system, only it runs in terminal and renders the images in ASCII. Free to download and use on GitHub, the sofware isn’t perhaps for the code-shy, as…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Windows 10 Will Be Free For Raspberry Pi

Earlier today, Raspberry Pi announced a new, powerful version of its Pi 2 Model B+ that still costs $35. Now, Microsoft has also announced that a free version of Windows 10 will be available for Raspberry Pi devices. A long time coming—and perhaps spurred by the newly powerful hardware—the operating system will be freely available…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The New Raspberry Pi: A Turbocharged Quad-Core Real PC for $35

The Raspberry Pi has always been a geek’s delight, but the new Pi 2 Model B+ takes the palm-sized computers to a whole new level. With a 900MHz quad-core system-on-chip, bolstered with 1GB of RAM, the new Pi is now a real computer. And it still only costs $35. Previously, the Model B+ Raspberry Pi…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

What Is “the Cloud” — and Where Is It?

There’s at least one funny joke in Sex Tape. While frantically trying to cut off access to the amateur porn vid he accidentally uploaded to iCloud, Jason Segel tries to explain why deleting the file won’t work. “Nobody understands the cloud,” he says. “It’s a fucking mystery!” He’s kind of right. “Cloud” is a buzzword…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Concept Has a Use For Old Modular Phone Parts: A Supercomputer

Modular phones are certainly a popular idea right now, even if they’re currently failing to deliver on their promise. But there’s already a suggestion about what could happen to their parts when they’re no longer wanted: they could simply slide together to form a supercomputer. This a concept design by the chaps behind the modular…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Breakthrough Quantum Hard Drive Holds Data 100 Times Longer

Storing data in a state of quantum entanglement could hold enormous promise for securing our online information, but right now we can only maintain these states for a short time before the entanglement fails. An Australian research team has found a way to store data for hours, not milliseconds: Say hello to the world’s first…

Tech News Andrew Tarantola

What Actually Happens When You Click on a Link

You see a link, you click on it, and it takes you somewhere. Simple, right? But actually, that remarkably straightforward user experience has a fairly complex series of computational processes going on in the background. In this video, Dr Richard Mortier essentially explains the basics of how links work. He does a pretty great job…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Your ISP’s Math Can Make the Internet Slow

To work out what dizzying speeds they can offer you, ISPs have to use some simple math to predict how much the demand for delicious internet will vary at peak times. Only, they don’t always get it right. In this video, Dr Richard Mortier explains how statistical multiplexing allows ISPs to effectively gamble on their…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A 5-Year-Old Passed a Microsoft IT Technician Exam

Ayan Qureshi is in many ways a normal young boy. Apart from the fact that, at the age of just five years old, he passed an exam to become the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional ever. Ayan—whose dad happens to be an IT consultant—had to answer a selection of multiple choice, drag-n-drop and scenario-based questions to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Why Not All Free Software Is Free

Meet Matt Lee, the Technical Lead at Creative Commons. He has a good beard, true, but he also believes very strongly in concept of Free Software. Not free as in a free lunch, but free as in free speech. Allow him to explain. In this video, he explains the four key characteristics that make a…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Smaller Chips Make More Mistakes—But That Could Be a Good Thing

When you shrink electronics and their transistors with them, they become more error-prone. Usually, that’s compensated for by a boost in voltage—but researchers at MIT think we should embrace the mistakes instead. The idea is simple. Smaller chips with increasingly small transistors are more efficient, but that efficiency is squandered by pumping in power to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The LHC Is Going to Produce 400PB of Data Every Year

At the Large Hadron Collider, some serious science goes down. So serious, in fact, that the facility plans to ratchet up its data collection to the point where it’s creating a staggering 400PB of data every year. So far, in its entire lifespan, the LHC has generated an archive of 100PB, and that total is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Nvidia’s Next-Gen Grass Simulations Are Mesmerizing

When developers are looking for the next jaw-dropping gaming visual to show off their newest titles with, the responsibility usually falls on some shiny, photo-real car porn or a wavy mullet with individual strands blowing in the wind. But the sizzle reels of the future may turn their cameras ground-ward if Nvidia’s new grass-mimicking effect…

Tech News Gerald Lynch - Gizmodo UK

What Happens When Routers Go Wrong?

On the most basic of levels, when your router goes wrong you lose the Internet: no more porn, no more kittens, nor more Facebook. But what, exactly, is going wrong to make your life so empty? In this video, Dr Richard Mortimer from the University of Nottingham explains how routers work—and how they go wrong.…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

A 7-Year-Old Could Build This Computer That Fits Together Like Lego

Kano is a new kind of computer company, a startup that’s totally devoted to teaching a new generation about the craft of silicon. Its first product, a Raspberry Pi-based system so easy a child could build it, makes it easy to build a PC practically from scratch. The idea behind Kano is focused on educating…

Tech News Adam Clark Estes

This Guitar Blogs

What happens when you give Steve Benford, the Professor of Collaborative Computing in at the University of Nottingham, a guitar and some time? He creates an instument that blogs is what. Inspired by a banjo with a rich history, Benford decided to bring the Internet of Things to a guitar. In doing so, he created…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

How Digital Security Is Being Inspired By Nature

Cyber security is vital in our modern digital world, but it’s not ruled entirely by traditional computing techniques. In fact, it’s learning from the natural world—and something called The Danger Theory could help keep our computers safe. In fact, The Danger Theory is really quite new itself—a piece of cutting edge immunology which explains how…

Privacy & Security Jamie Condliffe

Quantum Computers Are Still No Faster Than Your Average PC

The D-Wave 2 is a much-hyped quantum computer, but, as scientists now report, it’s not actually any faster than a regular old PC. Wait, didn’t we say it was 3,600 times faster just a few months ago? Yes, and both are right. Whether one computer is faster than another is actually a mighty complicated question.…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

How and Why Your Computer Crashes

Despite technology constantly improving, there’s one eternal truth in computing: your computer can and will crash, probably at the most inconvenient point. But why is that? And why is it still a problem? In this video, Dr Steve Bagley explains how computer crashes come to happen, using an Atari Falcon—really!—as a simple example. But he…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell

Every friend I have with a job that involves picking up something heavier than a laptop more than twice a week eventually finds a way to slip something like this into conversation: “Bro, you don’t work hard. I just worked a 4700-hour week digging a tunnel under Mordor with a screwdriver.” They have a point.…

Tech News Peter Welch

This Video Chat Software Runs in Terminal, Renders Your Face in ASCII

Windows 10 Will Be Free For Raspberry Pi

The New Raspberry Pi: A Turbocharged Quad-Core Real PC for $35

What Is “the Cloud” — and Where Is It?

This Concept Has a Use For Old Modular Phone Parts: A Supercomputer

Breakthrough Quantum Hard Drive Holds Data 100 Times Longer

What Actually Happens When You Click on a Link

How Your ISP’s Math Can Make the Internet Slow

A 5-Year-Old Passed a Microsoft IT Technician Exam

Why Not All Free Software Is Free

Smaller Chips Make More Mistakes—But That Could Be a Good Thing

The LHC Is Going to Produce 400PB of Data Every Year

Nvidia’s Next-Gen Grass Simulations Are Mesmerizing

What Happens When Routers Go Wrong?

A 7-Year-Old Could Build This Computer That Fits Together Like Lego

This Guitar Blogs

How Digital Security Is Being Inspired By Nature

Quantum Computers Are Still No Faster Than Your Average PC

How and Why Your Computer Crashes

Coding Sucks: Why a Job in Programming Is Absolute Hell

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