When we say “5G” almost everyone thinks of their phone downloading videos faster. It is true, but it is only part of the story. The fifth generation of mobile networks was designed from sc...
When you hear about a graphics card or a GPU (graphics processing unit), the first thing that comes to mind is video games. But that chip is today one of the engines of artificial intelligence, cinema...
For more than half a century, the word “disk” described something literal: metal platters spinning at thousands of revolutions per minute, with a mechanical arm positioning a needle to rea...
A few years ago, taking a photo at night with your phone was almost an ordeal: everything came out dark, blurry or full of grain. Today it is enough to press a button and the image appears sharp, well...
The battery that promises to charge your phone in minutes We all know the scene: the phone runs out of battery just when you need it most and you have to look for an outlet, with the anxiety of the pe...
There is a machine capable of creating a spare part, a toy, a medical prosthesis or even a home. It does not manufacture it: it “prints” it, adding material layer by layer until it takes s...
When you put on a smartwatch in the morning, you are strapping a small laboratory to your wrist. It is no longer just for telling the time: it counts your steps, monitors your heart rate, measures how...
When you switch on your phone in the morning, you switch on a small miracle of modern engineering. Inside that shell there is not one computer but several, and they all live on a chip smaller than a f...
Every time we charge our phone, we set in motion a small chemical feat: storing electricity in the same space that fits a handful of rice. But that feat — the lithium batteries that fill everything to...
There is an idea that has been floating around computing for decades: what if a computer worked more like a brain than a calculator? Neuromorphic chips are the most ambitious bet to achieve this. They...
Can you imagine charging your phone in five minutes and the battery lasting a whole week? Or an electric car that travels more than a thousand kilometres on a single charge, without fear of catching f...
Imagine being able to manufacture an object at the press of a button. Not buying it in a shop or ordering it online, but “printing” it at home, like printing a document. That is what 3D pr...