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Apple is world's biggest chip buyer, by far; purchases 50% more than its nearest rival, Samsung
Apple is thy far he biggest buyer of microprocessors today...
Samsung Forced To Release New Chips Early After Apple Rumor Causes Stock Plummet
These chips will end up in Apple devices, despite what DigiTimes reports. Samsung has reportedly launched its next generation of 20-nanometer mobile memory chips early in a bid to repair the damage caused by a throwaway rumor from DigiTimes that claimed Apple was gearing up to shun Samsung’...
Transparent, flexible '3D' memory chips may be the next big thing in iPhones, iPads
New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded...
Our Most Important Memories Live in Just a Few Neurons [Science]
That favorite childhood memory of yours—you know, the one that still seems like just yesterday, the one that you can still smell and taste—may actually be the result of a select few neurons firing deep within your brain.More »
Daydreaming Makes You Smarter [Science]
At high school, it's invariably the kids that day dream who get told off. But a new study suggests that it's those of us whose minds wander that have the best working memory—and working memory is itself directly associated to intelligence.More »
How to Build Turing's Universal Machine [Book Excerpts]
Modern computers wouldn't exist without the pioneering theories posited by Alan Turing, however the famed computer scientist was never quite able to make a working model of his hypothetical device. Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson follows Hungarian mathematician John von Neumann's efforts to bu...
Early benchmark reveals that the new iPad has 1 GB of RAM and a 1 GHz processor
Some early benchmarks of the new iPad show that though there’s been a bump in RAM up to 1 GB (from 512 MB in the iPad 2), the processor maintains the same 1 GHz clock speed. These figures were pulled up from the Geek Bench app on a new iPad acquired a bit early by some folks in Vietnam. Th...
Why Weed Makes You...You...Huh? [Drugs]
Scientists have long suspected that THC somehow affects the hippocampus region of the brain, the bit responsible for controlling short-term memory, but have never been able to prove it. Turns out that's because they were looking at the wrong grey matter.More »
Sleeping Better Now Helps Prevent Memory Loss When You're Old [Science]
If you're one of those people who battles through all-nighters, parties hard only to rise early, or has plain old insomnia, I have some bad news for you. Scientists have shown that sleep deprivation in early adult life is linked to memory problems when you're old.More »
Unity 3.5 available now, with new effects and performance updates
There are quite a few ways to make and build iPhone and iPad apps and games, but one of the most popular tools to create iOS games is the Unity engine, and that system has released version 3.5. The new version offers a number of improvements and upgrades, with lots of new particle and lighting ...
