Hackaday

Play Games In UEFI…to Access Your Computer

These days, bootstrapping a computer is a pretty straight forward process, at least as far as the user is concerned. But in ...
eOpicle

The Soviet Computer That Refused to Count Like Everyone Else

Thus was born Setun, the world’s first ternary computer—a machine that did not merely tweak binary logic but openly defied it ...
Hackaday

The Setun Was A Ternary Computer From The USSR In 1958

Codeolences] tells us about the FORBIDDEN Soviet Computer That Defied Binary Logic. The Setun, the world’s first ternary ...
Indian Defence Review

2,000-Year-Old Device Found in Chinese Tomb Could Be World’s Oldest Computer

A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.
scmp.com

Could 2,000-year-old machine from tomb in China be world’s earliest binary computer?

The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations automatically and produces results. Unearthed in 2012 from a tomb dated to ...
unr.edu

Science, Engineering faculty collaborate on black hole research

They pull us in, literally and figuratively. Black holes — remnants of collapsed stars — have immense mass that curves spacetime so all paths lead inward. They also capture the popular imagination as ...
Astronomy

If hypervelocity stars are kicked out of binary systems by supernovae, how did they survive the blast?

Hypervelocity stars (HVS) are celestial bodies moving at speeds sufficient to escape the Milky Way's gravitational pull, with a primary proposed origin involving binary star interactions with the ...
New York Post

‘Star Wars’ predicted it: Planet discovered that orbits two suns like Luke Skywalker’s home Tatooine

Is it a two-for-sun deal. Astronomers were blown away after discovering a bizarre exoplanet that orbits twin stars closer than any ever seen before in a binary star system, per a starry study ...
KY3

Missouri DMV launching FUSION computer system with new features

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - The Missouri Department of Motor Vehicles will soon bring its FUSION computer systems online. FUSION stands for Fifty Unique Systems In One Nexus. The updated system connects ...
Engadget

Webb telescope images an aging binary star system in the center of a four-layered cosmic dust shell

Webb's mid-infrared image shows four coiled shells of dust around a pair of Wolf-Rayet stars known as Apep for the first time (NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Science: Yinuo Han (Caltech), Ryan White ...
PCGamesN

26 years later, this legendary computer speaker system is finally getting an update

Computer speakers are one of those PC products that see very slow development, with products sometimes hanging around for decades. There's hardly a finer example of that than the Klipsch ProMedia. The ...
IFLScience

Incredible Planetary System Has Two Stars And Three Earth-Sized Planets

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...