Boffins create Star Trek micro-voyager
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Tuesday, 10 November 2020 11:49

Boffins create Star Trek micro-voyager


The Borg will never see it coming

A team of physicists at a university in the Netherlands have 3D-printed a microscopic version of the USS Voyager, an Intrepid-class starship from Star Trek.

Star Trek sees off video game copyright infringement suit
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Apparently it really did boldy go where no one had gone before 

Viacom/CBS, along with Netflix, have defeated an appeal by a video game maker that tried to claim that one episode of Star Trek Discovery infringed on the copyrights for a video game.

Graham Palmer retires from Intel
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Tuesday, 31 December 2019 19:24

Graham Palmer retires from Intel


Turns in his chips for cash

British Intel legend Graham Palmer has retired from Intel UK. I met up with him a couple of weeks ago (pictured, in The Grapes, Oxford)  and we shared some memories about the Intel Developer Forums we attended together.

Huawei's Hu has high hopes on his horizon
Published in AI
Thursday, 19 September 2019 05:36

Huawei's Hu has high hopes on his horizon


It's computing, Jim, but not as we know it

Ken Hu, deputy chairman of Huawei, kicked off the Advanced Intelligence conference here in Shanghai by “keynoting” about the future of computing.

Star Trek’s Federation will still use Windows XP
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Coders have a look at Discovery code

Star Trek fans with HD have been looking at the code used in the new Star Trek: Discovery show and found that the Federation’s latest starship appears to be using Windows XP.

Star Trek: Discovery shows that big content still has not got the message
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Pirates will mess with your cunning plans

For a while it started to look like big content was starting to get the message about the internet – if content is available and cheap enough then people will buy legit copies. Then CBS released Star Trek: Discovery.

New star-trek film is a massive advert for HPE
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HPE will boldly go if it is still here in 250 years

The former maker of expensive printer ink has said that the Star Trek Beyond, the latest in the new Star Trek movies will be a big advert for the company.

Scientists crack biologically-powered circuit
Published in Transportation
Wednesday, 09 December 2015 10:46

Scientists crack biologically-powered circuit


Borg collective day one


Researchers at Columbia Engineering have harnessed the molecular machinery of living systems to power an integrated circuit in what could be a step towards a biologically based machine. 

Star Trek communicator goes on sale soon
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Thursday, 09 July 2015 11:28

Star Trek communicator goes on sale soon


Boldly going to the shops

The Wand Company, which makes gadgets from popular fiction, has developed a real Star Trek Communicator that can be connected to any smartphone using Bluetooth.

Friday, 21 December 2012 09:59

New Star Trek game to arrive in April

Release will come ahead of new movie