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What is Dirac Live, and how do you get it?

By Simon Cohen published

Just upgraded your audio system, but still not happy with how it sounds? The problem might be your room, not your gear.

Klipsch unveils the first Dolby Atmos soundbar with Dirac Live elite room correction – and it's crammed with extra features too

By Carrie Marshall published

Dirac's room correction means this soundbar should sound superb.

Nobel Laureate backs Cambridge-based crowdfunding effort to digitize 100,000 hours of recordings from some of the brightest minds in human history

By Efosa Udinmwen published

A Cambridge-led project seeks funds to digitize and restore 100,000 hours of historic scientific recordings featuring leading global thinkers.

'A virtual DPU within a GPU': Could clever hardware hack be behind DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency?

By Wayne Williams published

DualPipe could be the secret to DeepSeek's groundbreaking AI efficiency.

Happy birthday, Director! The first operating system in the world turns 70 today

By Efosa Udinmwen published

The birth of modern computing – Director’s 1955 launch set the stage for automated software and future operating systems.

This German startup wants to build portable quantum computers using diamonds - and says its QPU will sit next to a GPU or a CPU one day

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Quantum Brilliance aims to build compact QPUs with up to 100 qubits, targeting AI and sensing tasks using diamonds instead of cryogenic quantum systems.

The world’s first Thin-Ply Carbon Diaphragm headphones are here from an audio icon – and I need to try them

By Becky Scarrott published

Meet HEDDphone D1: A HEDD-y mix of futuristic technology in open-back cans

Dali’s mega-powerful 16-inch ported subwoofer wants to shake your home theater to bits, in a good way

By Carrie Marshall published

Incredible power – and Dali says it delivers incredible precision too

Klipsch Flexus Core 300 review: a seriously immersive soundbar system with Dirac Live room correction

By James Holland published

The Klipsch Flexus Core 300 soundbar sounds great and comes with an almost unparalleled feature set, including Dirac Live room correction.

Rotel DX-3 headphone amplifier and DAC

This compact new headphone amp from a hi-fi legend wants to boost sound quality to wired headphones

By Carrie Marshall published

Rotel's DX-3 promises exceptional high-end audio for elite headphones, even if you're using aptX Bluetooth.

Diamond-based electronics could help power your laptop one day — as researchers claim hardest semiconductor holds key to carbon-neutrality in energy market

By Wayne Williams published

Diamond-based electronics could lead to lower costs in shipping, transportation, and installation.

Laser Processing Units could give traditional CPUs, GPUs and quantum computers a run for their money - but don’t expect them to run Windows anytime soon

By Wayne Williams published

LightSolver is developing a Laser Processor Unit it claims can challenge quantum systems and GPUs.

Fancy a drone destroyer? Someone transformed a Framework 16 laptop into a UAV killer thanks to a custom SDR module

By Wayne Williams published

A hardware designer has developed a drone jammer using a custom SDR module for the Framework modular laptop.

PsiQuantum plans to build world’s first large scale fault tolerant million qubit quantum computers for solving some of the world’s most complex scientific problems

By Wayne Williams published

PsiQuantum raises $1 billion to accelerate development of million qubit quantum computers and begin building utility scale systems in Australia and the US.

Here's how Nvidia and AMD hardware are being used in surprising ways to build Nvidia's fastest GPU ever

By Wayne Williams published

Nvidia and AMD hardware are both being used with Cadence tools to create the fastest GPUs yet.

You have to see Dark Matter's stunning wired earbuds, which have up to 8(!) drivers in stunning designs

By Carrie Marshall published

These high-end IEMs have more drivers than Fed-Ex

Vertere's elite DG X turntable is modular, expensive, and hugely desirable

By Becky Scarrott published

UK-based turntable specialist Vertere's new and easy-to-set-up turntable is for audiophiles and fledgling vinyl lovers alike – if they can afford it.

Move over, Rolls-Royce – America’s first homegrown ultra-luxury vehicle in almost a century is here to steal its crown

By Leon Poultney published

With styling inspired by 1930s Streamliner cars and an all-natural interior, Dacora wants to take on the biggest names in the luxury car business.

Windows 11 24H2 strikes a sour note as audio bug hits the update, leaving some PCs silent

By Kristina Terech published

New Windows 11 24H2 bug silences some PCs, and Microsoft has blocked the update for affected devices while it works on a fix.

Scientists plan 3.84 Gigapixels virtual sensor made of 60 smartphone cameras to detect elusive antiproton annihilation events

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Scientists turned sixty smartphone camera sensors into a gigapixel detector capable of observing rare antimatter annihilation events in unprecedented real-time detail.

Clever ‘light switch’ breakthrough could make hyperscale networks 1000x faster, just in time for AGI and superintelligence

By Wayne Williams published

Finchetto unveils photonic switch that could outpace electronics a thousandfold, reshaping hyperscale networking for the AGI era.

Tech startup proposes a novel way to tackle massive LLMs using the fastest memory available to mankind

By Wayne Williams published

Microsoft-backed d-Matrix's Corsair PCIe card has 2GB of SRAM performance memory.

'Today’s computers are horribly inefficient': How a US startup is going Apple's way — combining hardware and software to crack AI's big 99% power consumption problem

By Wayne Williams published

Efficient Computer has created a "post-von Neumann processor" that combines hardware and software to be more efficient.

Sandisk recruits RISC cofounder, AMD graphics legend to spearhead cheaper rival to HBM — high bandwidth flash could bring SSD-capacities to AI GPUs without the cost

By Wayne Williams published

Sandisk brings in RISC and GPU pioneers to lead development of HBF, a cheaper HBM alternative.

A critical Docker Desktop security flaw puts Windows hosts at risk of attack, so patch now

By Sead Fadilpašić published

Docker recently patched a critical bug in Windows and macOS but it's a little more dangerous on the former.

Denon's new 8K-ready, 13.4-channel AV receiver has four subwoofer outputs and Dirac Live support for the ultimate in bass

By Carrie Marshall published

Denon launches a more affordable model of A-series AVR

'No one knows yet': Donut design could create quadrillion-transitor compute monster — analysts discuss unusual interconnection as Cerebras CEO acknowledges that we don't know what happens when multiple WSEs are connected

By Wayne Williams published

Cerebras' Wafer-Scale Engine excelled at a scientific simulation, but could do even better if multiple WSEs were lashed together.

MIT researchers say nanoscale 3D transistors made from ultrathin semiconductor materials promise more efficient electronics; quantum mechanics offers a path beyond silicon limits

By Wayne Williams published

MIT researchers say nanoscale 3D transistors promise more efficient electronics.

"Something the world has never seen before" – revolutionary cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions; could be used for scaling quantum computing and in space tech

By Wayne Williams published

Cryo-CMOS transistor thrives in freezing conditions and could be used in quantum computing and space tech.

This is the first quantum computer you can actually buy (and use, and power): Equal1's Bell-1 uses a standard power socket

By Efosa Udinmwen published

Equal1’s Bell-1 redefines HPC by delivering quantum acceleration in a standard server rack, making it a game-changer for high-performance computing.