Computer Science & Technology

How far is the walk from your front step to your mailbox? Can your car fit into a garage if it had a canoe mounted on it? Can a self-driving golf cart avoid hitting walking pedestrians? Any number of these types of questions happens every day.

Modern computers use a combination of volatile memory and nonvolatile memory to operate. The nonvolatile memory is data that is permanently stored on the hard drive of a computer and will remain there after the unit is powered down. Volatile memory is the data that is stored in memory within the RAM and is deleted or lost when a computer loses power. The issue with RAM is that it takes a lot of power to store data for temporary use.

Many parents worry about giving their children an electronic device of their own at too young an age, but we also want to be able to communicate with our children regularly when we’re not with them. If you work away from home or have relatives who live far away you’ll know how important that communication can be for everyone involved.

Given the increased performance of quantum computers, they have the potential to rapidly crack many cryptography methods which currently underpin cybersecurity at national levels. Cryptography is the branch of cybersecurity which involves providing protection for emails, financial records, medical records and online transactions – all vitally important in a world where most of us rely on the internet to perform these functions safely and securely.

Quantum computers represent a massive leap forward for computing capabilities, essential in this modern age where so many of our daily activities rely more and more heavily on our computers and the information we expect them to store. All this requires significant computing power which our standard computers are now struggling to provide.

We’re all victims of the computer vision syndrome, visiting social media accounts at work, inactive by sitting at our stations all day or in some manner abusing and impairing the performance of our bodies because of excessive use, or should we say misuse, of computers rooted to desks. But this problem, since time immemorial, always seems to draw a who-has-the-time-for-exercise response!

Computers have advanced quickly through the decades and for a time, they were on pace with Moore’s law. However, the rate increasing processing power has slowed over the past decades as processor speeds are beginning to plateau. This means the semiconductor industry will have to be clever in its innovation.

For the last 10 years the biomedical world has been in a continuous transition towards smaller and smaller sensing devices. Biometric monitoring devices for health and fitness have made significant progress in the area of wearable sensing, with a huge number of products currently on the market. The next generation of sensing devices are intended to provide accurate local monitoring of usually non-accessible human body parameters.

It’s hard to believe that virtual reality has been around since the 1950s. The public wasn’t aware until the 1990s, but the technology was pioneered by cinematographer Morton Heilig. Wanting to stimulate audiences and draw them into the story, he and his partners developed the Sensorama in 1960. The single person unit was equipped with stereoscopic displays, odor emitters, stereo speakers, and a movable chair.

Intel introduced the new version of Thunderbolt technology at the Computex Taipei 2015, and it seems to be the new trend in the peripheral connection market, as the big computer industry has already adopted it on a large scale.

We all want the best for our families, but sometimes we have to make a hard decision and opt for assisted living for our elderly. This can stem from a gradual decline in health, difficulties in performing menial tasks, loss of cognitive functions requiring supervision, or general depression from being isolated from others. We choose assisted living communities for peace of mind; that our loved ones are being cared for and enjoying the best quality of life.

All the magic of modern computing technology, from the smartphone in your pocket to the laptop you may be reading this on, exists thanks to the semiconductor chip. These tiny pieces of silicon contain a collection of electronic circuits, which manipulate electric current in order to store and transfer data. However, the electrons that generate electric current can only move so fast across a chip.