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Posted on 1st November 2019 by Indos Computer Services
A few months ago, we wrote an article about the Q System One from IBM, the world’s first standalone quantum computer available for commercial use. Quantum Computers, as we’ve touched on before, are quite simply computers with incomprehensible levels of computing power, especially when compared to the typical PC. So, the first commercially-available quantum computer … Continue reading →
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Posted on 31st May 2019 by Indos Computer Services
Spreadsheets are the lifeblood of small to medium-sized offices. They’re fantastic, versatile tool; they allow us to collate mass amounts of data to feed deep business analysis, handle client billing, internal task-tracking and much, much more. But the spreadsheet today is taken for granted. It has a reputation of being boring, the lowest common denominator … Continue reading →
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Posted on 12th March 2019 by Indos Computer Services
There were many curiosities at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019 (CES). Among the oddities, such as the smart plank and walking cars, one announcement was made that could be pivotal to the world of computing. The Q System One, IBM revealed, is the first standalone quantum computer that’s ready for commercial use. What’s a … Continue reading →
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Posted on 24th October 2018 by Indos Computer Services
Tim Berners Lee may be the Father of the World Wide Web but have you ever heard of Mother of the Internet, Radia Perlman? Where Berners Lee invented the world wide web, the first web browser and some fundamental protocols, it’s Perlman who’s credited with providing the final piece in the puzzle. This piece … Continue reading →
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Posted on 4th September 2018 by Indos Computer Services
Elon Musk said it over two years ago, but it seems Tesla has gone it alone and designed in-house hardware in 2018. Starting with a team of expert chip designers, poached from various companies, the company have set about creating their own chips built specifically to control Tesla’s next generation Autopilot 3.0 system. Has Tesla … Continue reading →
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Posted on 2nd August 2018 by Indos Computer Services
A rare example of Ada Lovelace’s ground-breaking computer program has sold at auction for £95,000. Published in 1843, the leather-bound book is a translation of work by Italian Mathematician, LF Menabrea, concerning Charles Babbage’s idea for a computing machine. Among the translation, however, is Lovelace’s own notes, reflections and an algorithm. It is … Continue reading →
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Posted on 7th May 2018 by Indos Computer Services
Actually you will because it’s Firefox, but I bet you were thinking of another internet browser weren’t you? Unfortunately, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is not getting the boot just yet. It’s being downgraded to a ‘legacy browser’ – as though the world needs that level of nostalgia for an internet browser which has been subject … Continue reading →
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Posted on 9th April 2018 by Indos Computer Services
Back when computers were the size of cars and getting smaller everyday, a British consumer electronics company called Sinclair Research was on the brink of a minor revolution in home computing. It was 1980 and if your perm wasn’t tight and your computer wasn’t 8-bit, you were going nowhere. Thanks to the Sinclair ZX80, quickly … Continue reading →
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Posted on 6th February 2018 by Indos Computer Services
New research suggests Brexit won’t be a good idea for the UK’s 5.5 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The UK’s ever-looming exit from the EU is set to threaten 15.6 million employees of medium businesses that represent 90% of the UK’s professional industries. Academics at St Andrews University conducted the study by surveying 10,000 … Continue reading →
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Posted on 25th July 2017 by Indos Computer Services
If you owned a laptop in 1998, chances are it looked like a pavement slab and weighed just as much. Fast forward to 2008 and the technology is lighter, faster and wifi enabled but it certainly looks similar to the clamshell laptops of yore. This brings us to 2017 and the present day, where … Continue reading →
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