A new microchip-sized device could dramatically accelerate the future of quantum computing. It controls laser frequencies ...

A future in which conversational computers predominate has been a staple of computer science chit-chat since the 1940s, when Alan Turing set out to build a machine that would respond like a human to ...

Computers are not mechanical brains, and our brains are not biological computers. They differ in function, organization, and composition. Both have circuits, sure, but computer chips are ultimately ...

This graphic depicts the structure of an extremely thin semiconductor called molybdenum disulfide, which is particularly promising for future flexible and transparent electronic devices for displays, ...

Overview: Quantum computing promises exponential speedups for complex healthcare problems like molecular simulation, genomics, and precision medicine, but real- ...

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. When you purchase ...

Many experts believe that once quantum computers are big enough and reliable enough to solve useful problems, the most common deployment architecture will be to have them serve as accelerators for ...

If you are reading this on your smartphone, its CPU (central processing unit) is running at its full speed. It is a tiny chip containing billions of the more basic units called logic gates. In the ...

If you’ve heard of the game Minecraft, you may also have heard about all the folks who’ve built working virtual arithmetic logic units (ALUs) out of the LEGO-like game world itself. Sure, they’re more ...

For some reason, we often think of computers as infallible -- subjective, logical, rational, and nearly always right. There is something about a computer's lack of emotion and intelligence that makes ...

MIT and Cambridge science men have determined that by 2010 we’ll be ‘immersed in a sea of miniature computers.’ It’s not clear exactly how this will happen, or even why, but there is a picture of a ...