IBM announces new Chip - 4X Powerful than Today's Best
IBM announced today that they have developped a new breed of computer chip, one that is ultra-dense and squeezes in four times more computing power than today's leading silicon chips. Up until now, chip manufactuers have only been able to reduce the size of transistors to around 10-14 nanometers. IBM has been able to further shrink them to just 7 nanometers ( a strand of DNA is 2.5 nanometers thick). In addition, the new chips will use a silicon-germanium mixture rather than pure silicon, allowing for the transistors to switch faster and use less power. This leads to chips having over 20 billion individual transistors, and although they are still in development (and nowhere near consumer readiness), should be recognized as an incredible feat in the advancement of computing.
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T-Mobile announces Free North America-Wide Roaming
Americans are about to get a pretty sweet deal. T-Mobile has announced that they have expanded converage outisde of the United States into Canada and Mexico by partenering with international networks to allow roaming. However, unlike traditional roaming, T-Mobile says that it's customers will be able to use their current plan, including data, texting and calling at no additional charge when traveling throughout the continent. Known as "Mobile without Borders", T-Mobile continues to live up to their promise of doing away with extra fees and confusing add-on plans in their attempt to become "The Un-Carrier" and offer an alternaive to other, larger wireless carriers.
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Office 2016 now available for Mac
The new release of Microsoft Office is now available for users of Apple's Mac in 139 countries world wide. In it's first major update in just over five years, individuals with an Office 365 subscription as well as students can now download Office 2016, with a planned release of the standalone version in September. The new release puts Office for Mac on par with its Windows cousin with new features like fullscreen mode and optimization for Retina displays. Although Windows users we're treated to an update for Office in 2013 to coincide with the release of Windows 8, Mac users have been overlooked since the 2011 release and is sure to be a welcome change for fans of the office suite.
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OSX El Capitan and iOS 9 Public Beta Open
Apple's newest releases of its desktop and mobile operating systems, just announced a month ago at WWDC, are now open for public beta. iOS 9 introduces many new features like multitasking, the return of old features like Home Sharing, and improvements to old staples like Siri and Maps. El Capitan, however, brings only minor improvements and bug fixes with a new Mission Control, a more powerful Spotlight and a new splitscreen view.
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Apple's newest releases of its desktop and mobile operating systems, just announced a month ago at WWDC, are now open for public beta. iOS 9 introduces many new features like multitasking, the return of old features like Home Sharing, and improvements to old staples like Siri and Maps. El Capitan, however, brings only minor improvements and bug fixes with a new Mission Control, a more powerful Spotlight and a new splitscreen view.
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