
Human brain slower than dial up
Particularly before coffee
Boffins researching the human brain have worked out that it processes information at 10 bits per second, which is slower than 1980’s dial up.

AMD raises notebook clock-speed by 1Ghz
No increase in power
AMD’s type Bristol Ridge SOC looks certain to speed up notebook chips by a 1 GHz without raising power consumption – if the OEMs had not stuffed it up for them.
Boffins speed up downloading
Microscale optical devices developed
Microsoft “cheats” at benchmark test

Feature in IE allows superspeeds to be recorded