Change to ‘Bios’ will make for PCs that boot in seconds
PCs that start in seconds could result from an update to one of the oldest parts of desktop computers. The update will spell the end for the 25-year-old PC start-up software known as Bios that initialises a machine so its operating system can get going.
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Rebooting the robot quant funds
Evolutionary scientist Richard Dawkins caused a stir with his speculation that computers might supplant biological genes as evolution’s prime mover if they ever began to replicate. They are not there yet, but fund managers have started to ask bigger computers to watch over smaller ones.
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