The fastest supercomputer ever built has been unveiled.
Frontier, developed at Tennessee’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, can make a billion, billion calculations every second and will be deployed to crack the toughest scientific conundrums, potentially including climate change and nuclear fusion.
We spoke to Professor Simon McIntosh-Smith, head of Bristol University’s high performance computer group, who examines its development of exaflop computing speeds.
The United Nations reports that more than a billion methamphetamine tablets were seized across Asia last year.
The growing synthetic drugs trade centres on illegal labs in the border region of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar known as the Golden Triangle.
Web regulator Ofcom has urged tech firms to do more to keep women safe online after a study found that they are less confident about online safety than men.
Research commissioned by Dame Vera Baird, the Victims’ Commissioner for England and Wales, shows more than a fifth of online abuse victims say their ordeals lasted for more than two years - with police routinely telling them to simply block their troll.
Robot crabs so tiny they can scuttle around on top of a penny piece have been painstakingly built by scientists at Northwestern University.
We spoke to John A. Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering at Northwestern University.
Rumours are swirling around online about the spec of the upcoming Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 4, which according to leaked designs could include the largest - marginally - such foldable screen to date. As part of the Queen’s platinum jubilee celebration rehearsals, the gold state carriage has been seen beaming footage from her 1953 coronation day onto the windows. And Lego launches its Optimus Prime 10302 Transformers set - but it’s certainly not cheap.
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