I was excited to come to the PUSH conference, hoping to be "wowed" and moved like I had been at Pop!Tech a few years back. I was going to the conference as a scout, to see if we at ACS should send more people to PUSH next year. Well, getting to the conference was truly a trying experience. Due to ...

We’ve had resistors, capacitors, and inductors as the three fundamental elements in circuits. Now we may finally have the physical manifestation of the "memristor," originally described back in 1971 by engineering student Leon Chua, thanks to nanotechnology and HP Labs. Basically, it’s a resistor with memory. As you might guess, this could lead to RAM that is non-volatile, and could ...

At room temperature, the new computer chip developed by IBM and Georgia Tech operates at 350 GHz, well over 100 times as fast as today’s fastest commercially available computers. It will likely take a year or two before this could reach the market, but the implications could be huge. With that significant of a jump in processing speed, it’s hard ...

Samsung introduces a 32 GB Solid State Disk (SSD) notebook and a multimedia player. View their press release. The SSD reads 3x and writes 1.5x as fast as regular hard drives, makes no noise, and weighs about half as much as a regular hard drive. Read their press release for further details. Computers continue to get faster, lighter, and more ...