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Researchers working in Germany and the UK have discovered that Nitrogen-Vacancy defects in diamond can be used to create a magnetometer capable of detecting the broadband magnetic signals generated by HDD write-heads.
They've shown it possible at nano-meter resolution, to detect the static and oscillating fields associated with a write-head, a move that is expected to further shrink hard-drives since currently, the industry have no devices capable of 5-10nm resolution.
Comes with diamonds, fricken' lasers and exciting colour-change technology..
Diamond magnetometer could help shrink computer hard drives - physicsworld.com[^]
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OK, they can read data at extremely high densities. Can they also write it?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Right now they don't know if they can do either. What they've done isn't to create a new read head, it was to invent a hardware debugger for smaller write heads. In a few years we'll probably find out if they've managed to make read/write heads work at that scale in lab. Currently they've been blocked by not being able to see what the prototype write heads were actually doing.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Or maybe it will just be a bunch of NAND flash chips, a DRAM, and a controller. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The most advanced 2D NAND chips currently have cells sizes of about 15-20 nanometers, and store 3 bits per cell. Using 3D technologies, it is likely that NAND chips will easily achieve a 2D density higher than 5 nanometers, assuming this hasn't been done already.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Just did some work on my youngest son's laptop. His hard disk is "fast", but it was so slow relative to my SSD I don't know why anyone botherss with spinning disks outside of big data storage.
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Google has made no secret of its desire to target emerging markets and get more people using its services. "Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women."
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Microsoft started retrenching from the Windows Phone market in May 2015, but at Ignite today, in a session titled “Discover what’s next for Windows 10 Mobile for phones and small tablets” Alan Meeus, Product Manager, Windows 10 Mobile, put up a slide claiming that “Microsoft is committed to Windows 10 Mobile.” "Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more"
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:P Should I develop for UWP or not.
i cri evry tiem
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Now the earliest known recording of computer-generated music, created more than 65 years ago, has been restored by the University of Canterbury. But the interesting thing is that it was created on computer programming techniques devised by Turing himself. Rave in Hut 8!
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That's impressive. You can hear the ADSR effects. I wonder if that was in the original - did the computer generate the entire waveform, or was it playing some sort of synth? The article didn't say AFAIK.
Marc
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From another article on it[^], it seems like it was the computer itself:
Quote: The Manchester computer had a special instruction that caused the loudspeaker—Turing called it the 'hooter'—to emit a short pulse of sound, lasting a tiny fraction of a second. Turing said this sounded like 'something between a tap, a click, and a thump'. Executing the instruction over and over again resulted in this 'click' being produced repeatedly, on every fourth tick of the computer's internal clock: tick tick tick click, tick tick tick click. Repeating the instruction enough times like this caused the human ear to hear not discrete clicks but a steady note, in fact the note C6, two octaves above middle C.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: a special instruction that caused the loudspeaker
Ah. I missed that. 
Marc
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As expected the IEEE has ratified a new Ethernet specification -- IEEE P802.3bz – that defines 2.5GBASE-T and 5GBASE-T, boosting the current top speed of traditional Ethernet five-times without requiring the tearing out of current cabling. Will it work between two tin cans?
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These days, one tool has essentially unlocked the world of game development for the masses. "Oh the games people play now. Every night and every day now"
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I loathe articles which pretend to be objective, but are anything but.
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When everyone is a game developer, no one is a game developer.
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Vark111 wrote: When everyone is a game developer, no one is a game developer.
That is exactly the point... being a game "code monkey" or game kid, doesn't make them developers at all.
Exactly the same as in many other technologies...
I wonder... how long will it take, until Q&A start having questions of "My game doesn't work, gimme code plzzz"?
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The enterprise messaging platform, which is called Facebook at Work, has been in closed beta since last January. Paying to destroy your company's productivity. Brilliant!
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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at his company’s massive Ignite conference to lay out his vision for how deep learning and artificial intelligence will transform the company. It just doesn't make for that good a chant when dancing on stage
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Microsoft Learning GM Alison Cunard is looking to make earning more certifications easier for MCSE and MCSD certified professionals. Because *that* will make them so much more valuable
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Now more convenient uselessness.
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Quote: Microsoft streamlines MCSE and MCSD certifications,
So they're going to combine the Must Consult Someone Else and Must Consult Someone Dumb certs into a single Must Consult Someone Even Dumber cert? 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Private spaceflight company SpaceX has released a video that details its long-awaited "Interplanetary Transport System." For getting to infinity (and maybe beyond)
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The last few seconds where Mars spins rapidly seems to hint at terraforming. 
Marc
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