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500 Hz PC monitor prototype is fastest panel ever

Enlarge (credit: BOE/Sina. com ) Monitors with high refresh rates are able to depict fast-paced action more smoothly than standard 60 Hz monitors. Today’s screens can go as high as 360 Hz, but BOE, a Chinese electronics company, is working on increasing speeds to 500 Hz. And it has the prototype to prove it. Today’s […]

Qualcomm now owns Nuvia, aims new CPU design resources directly at Apple

Enlarge / A splash image for Nuvia from the company’s blog. (credit: Nuvia) Qualcomm has wrapped up its $1.4 billion acquisition of silicon design firm Nuvia, a move that will lead to in-house Qualcomm CPU designs. The acquisition should allow Qualcomm to compete with Apple’s silicon division and focus on pushing bigger, better ARM chips into the […]

Physicists give antimatter the chills

Enlarge / One of the magnets used to help contain antimatter. (credit: Brookhaven National Lab) On Wednesday, scientists reported successfully cooling atoms made of antimatter using an ultraviolet laser. The cooling process deployed here works on normal matter, so it was also expected to work just fine with the antihydrogen used for these experiments. Rather […]