Priceless barn find: World's first microcomputers discovered by cleaners

[New Atlas logo]( Computers [Priceless barn find: World's first microcomputers discovered by cleaners]( [The Q1 computer]( Two of the first-ever desktop computers have been found in storage boxes at Kingston University in London. A milestone in human achievement, the Q1 microprocessor computer was released more than half a century ago, and only one other is known to exist. [Read more]( Special Promotion for New Atlas Readers [Celebrate President's Day in style: Go green with this $700 BirdBike]( Ready to go on a journey that's as eco-friendly as it is exhilarating? Well, buckle up (or rather pedal up) for a ride that's sure to make you smile while keeping the planet happy too. The BirdBike is your eco-conscious ticket to high-flying fun! [Read more]( Technology [Next-level AI engine comes top in LLM speed showdown]( [The Groq Language Processing Unit Inference Engine should significantly speed up response times from AI chatbots]( Responses to AI chat prompts not snappy enough? California-based generative AI company Groq has a super quick solution in its LPU Inference Engine, which has recently outperformed all contenders in public benchmarks. [Read more]( Technology [Tamper-proof glueprints distinguish real from fake at over 99% accuracy]( [An artist's impression of the new ID tag that uses THz waves to verify the authenticity of an item by reading the fingerprint of metal particles in the glue]( ID verification tags aren’t much use if someone can just peel them off and stick them to a fake product. MIT scientists have now designed ID tags that use the glue itself as a kind of fingerprint, and will scramble the barcode if someone peels it off. [Read more]( Energy [Ultra-high density hydrogen storage holds twice as much as liquid H2]( [A material that can hold twice the amount of hydrogen as current methods could address the challenges of large-scale hydrogen storage]( A nanoporous material that holds hydrogen at twice the density of cryogenic liquid H2 could address the challenges of large-scale liquid and gas storage that have held this clean fuel back. [Read more]( Science [Grow a pair: Lab-grown testicles tackle infertility treatment]( [Lab-grown testicles may advance our understanding of the organs and translate into new treatments for infertility]( Lab-grown testicle organoids that closely resemble the real thing provide a promising model for research that may help our understanding of testicular development and translate into therapeutic applications for male infertility. [Read more]( Technology [Stunning new AI adds realistic sound effects to any video]( ["What if you could describe a sound and generate it with AI?" teases ElevenLabs as AI-generated sound effects and dialog are added to video footage generated by Sora from OpenAI]( If OpenAI's Sora heralds the end of videography, ElevenLabs has just fired a broadside over the foley and sounds effects departments, with another groundbreaking new AI that takes silent video and generates audio to match, taking text guidance. [Read more]( Computers [Quad-storage method writes data to a single atom in four different ways]( [An artist's interpretation of the antimony atom's 16 quantum states]( You can cram much more quantum processing power into a given space if you use four different ways to store data on a single atom, according to new research. The method unlocks more powerful quantum computers that are easier to control. [Read more]( You are receiving this email because you signed up for our daily newsletter at [newatlas.com]( (or [gizmag.com]( before August 2016). [Update profile]( | [Unsubscribe]( Copyright New Atlas © 2022