30th September 2025

DNA data storage could arrive within 3–5 years

An international consortium says DNA could soon become a practical medium for digital archives. A new report points to the first use cases emerging in just 3–5 years, with densities up to 500 million times greater than conventional drives.

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21st August 2025

Ultra-compact Mini SSD combines speed and mobility

A new storage format developed by Chinese company Biwin offers both blazing speed and a tiny form factor.

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6th August 2025

New 2D material outperforms future silicon chips

Chinese researchers have developed the first wafer-scale, 2D indium selenide semiconductors. The resulting transistors already outperform silicon's projected performance for 2037, marking a potentially major step toward next-generation chips.

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26th June 2025

Optical chip achieves 100-way parallel processing

A potentially revolutionary new processor uses light instead of electricity to do 100 calculations simultaneously, pointing the way to a future beyond the limits of Moore's Law.

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25th May 2025

Veo 3 sets a new benchmark for AI video generation

Google DeepMind has unveiled Veo 3, a stunning leap forward in generative video AI. The company also announced upgrades to Gemini 2.5 Pro, its flagship language model.

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22nd April 2025

Laser-cooled chips could transform data centre efficiency

A new laser-based photonic cooling system could reduce the energy needed for cooling in data centres, while improving the performance of computer chips.

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3rd March 2025

"e-Taste" could enhance VR experiences

A new electronic device, developed by Ohio State University, replicates the perception of taste with 70% accuracy.

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15th January 2025

New supercomputer is world's fastest

El Capitan, a system achieving an unprecedented 1.7 exaFLOPS, has been officially dedicated at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

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28th December 2024

Quantum teleportation achieved over Internet cable

A study in Optica reports the first demonstration of quantum teleportation over fibres carrying conventional telecommunications traffic.

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11th December 2024

Google reveals new "Willow" quantum chip

A new quantum chip from Google, "Willow", can perform calculations in minutes that would take classical supercomputers around 10 septillion years.

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16th November 2024

AI "Granny" can combat fraudsters

British telecoms company Virgin Media O2 has created a human-like AI "Granny" to answer calls in real time from scammers, keeping them on the phone and away from customers for as long as possible.

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22nd October 2024

New speed record for wireless transmission

A team at University College London has achieved 938 Gigabits per second (Gb/s) over a wireless connection.

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30th September 2024

AI hits 100% accuracy with CAPTCHA, beating humans

A new study has shown that AI bots can now solve Google's reCAPTCHAv2 with 100% accuracy, surpassing even humans in this task. This raises questions about the future of online security.

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