From floppy-era disasters to laptop lids and MagSafe snaps, an unexpected journey through magnets in computing.

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So I've always thought that having magnets near hard-drives was bad for the hard-drives, yet these days all I see are magnet-tipped screw drivers. Even those "iFixit" branded ones, which are obviously ...

A novel magnetic material with an extraordinary electronic structure might allow for the production of smaller and more efficient computer chips in the future: the p-wave magnet. Researchers from ...

The discovery of new quantum materials with magnetic properties could pave the way for ultra-fast and considerably more energy-efficient computers and mobile devices. So far, these types of materials ...

In a development that holds potential for both data storage and biomedical imaging, researchers have used a new technique to obtain the highest-ever resolution scan of the inside of a magnet.