In this 50-year retrospective, we're not just looking at technology year by year, we're looking at technologies that had an impact on us, paved the way for the future, and changed us, in ways good and bad.
This is the fourth round of funding for Force10 Networks, a maker of the 10gbps Ethernet switch, as the company looks toward an initial public offering in 2005.
NASA is using a Linux machine from Silicon Graphics with 256 Itanium 2 processors and plans to double that, the company says after posting financial results that move it closer to a profit.
NASA has upgraded its SGI Origin supercomputer. The supercomputer has 1,024 processors, which are being bumped up to faster MIPS R14000A microprocessors running at 600MHz, SGI said Tuesday. NASA is using the computer to study aeronautics, earth sciences and life sciences. The upgrade boosts the system from 819.2 gigaflops--that is, 819.2 billion calculations per second--to 1228.8 gigaflops of theoretical peak speed, said John Ziebarth, chief of the advanced supercomputing division at NASA Ames Research Center. --Margaret Kane, Special to ZDNet News
Take a tour of the Future Flight Central at NASA Ames Research Center in California, a complete virtual airport tower that can simulate any airport under any amount of traffic. Hear what it's like for an air traffic controller to work in the environment.
It goes from zero to 1,000 degrees in a fraction of a second, which matters when you're a semiconductor designer.
Building spacecraft isn't just for NASA anymore. Do-it-yourself CubeSats are helping students conquer space, 4 inches at a time. Photos: Tiny "CubeSats"
Timex/Sinclair ZX81 reappears on the personal computing scene
If all of the talk of money being invested in online commerce strikes you as a little sensible, take comfort in the knowledge that plenty of dosh is still being thrown at crazy ideas in the world of IT.
Copper wires weigh a lot, so NASA is teaming up with Rice University to develop power cables out of carbon nanotubes to lighten the load.
Google finally launches its Find My Device network. Here are the Android models that support it
3 million smart toothbrushes were not used in a DDoS attack after all, but it could happen
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Raspberry Pi 4 Model B review: A capable, flexible and affordable DIY computing platform
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Inside a fake $20 '16TB external M.2 SSD'