Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Keumars is the technology editor at Live Science. He has written for a variety of publications including ITPro, The Week Digital, ComputerActive and TechRadar Pro. He has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years, having previously held the role of features editor with ITPro.
An NCTJ-qualified journalist who specializes in technology, his path into journalism began at university. He immersed himself in student media while studying for a degree in Biomedical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London. After graduating, Keumars wrote for a variety of local and national publications as a freelancer, including The Independent, The Observer, and Metro. While studying for his NCTJ certification, his work was commended in the category of ‘Top Scoop’ in the 2017 NCTJ awards. He’s also registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), having qualified as a Level 3 Team leader with distinction in 2023.
Latest articles by Keumars Afifi-Sabet
Best laptops for astronomers 2024: Link up telescopes and edit astrophotographs
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet last updated
The best laptops for astronomy can connect to your telescope and support software to edit astrophotographs. With Amazon's Big Deals Days this week, it might be a good time to buy.
Best camera phone 2024: Smartphones that can capture the stars
By Jamie Carter last updated
Buying guide We've rounded up the best camera phones including flagship models from Apple, Samsung and Google.
Best rangefinder binoculars 2024: Observe and measure distances
By Russ Swan last updated
Buying Guide The best rangefinder binoculars allow you to locate and measure the distance of your subjects — we've rounded up our favorite models from all the top brands.
Best budget binoculars 2024: Affordable, high-quality models
By Tantse Walter last updated
Buying Guide We've rounded up the best budget binoculars, combining affordability with good quality optics and fantastic views.
Forget Amazon Prime Day: Our favorite MacBook is now $250 cheaper at BestBuy
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Deals Save big on this fantastic MacBook Air laptop deal in this anti-Prime Day deal with a 20% discount at BestBuy, perfect as an early Christmas gift for yourself.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold Gen 2 laptop review
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Review When you look past its stunningly immersive and expansive display, the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Fold Gen 2 begins to fall flat.
HP Spectre x360 14 (2024) laptop review
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Review HP's 14-inch 2-in-1 offers great performance in a smaller package — and has a fantastically color-accurate display to match
New quantum computer smashes 'quantum supremacy' record by a factor of 100 — and it consumes 30,000 times less power
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The 56-qubit H2-1 computer has broken the previous record in the 'quantum supremacy' benchmark first set by Google in 2019.
'World's purest silicon' could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Scientists engineer the 'purest ever silicon' to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future.
Future quantum computers will be no match for 'space encryption' that uses light to beam data around — with the 1st satellite launching in 2025
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Quantum computers will break encryption one day. But converting data into light particles and beaming them around using thousands of satellites might be one way around this problem.
World's 1st fault-tolerant quantum computer launching this year ahead of a 10,000-qubit machine in 2026
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
QuEra has dramatically reduced the error rate in qubits — with its first commercially available machine using this technology launching with 256 physical qubits and 10 logical qubits.
Futuristic vertical-takeoff air taxi could fly by 2028
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
The aircraft can cruise at 120 mph at an altitude of up to 1,500 feet — and it's much quieter than a helicopter.
Project Kuiper: Amazon's answer to SpaceX's Starlink passes 'crucial' test
By Keumars Afifi-Sabet published
Amazon's Project Kuiper, which uses optical inter-satellite link (OISL) technology to connect more than 3,000 satellites in a mesh network that blankets Earth, just cleared a final hurdle needed to launch next year.
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