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“When I look at [C. elegans] and consider its brain, I’m really struck by the profound elegance and efficiency,” says Daniela Rus, a computer scientist at MIT. Rus is so enamored with the ...

Four decades ago, physicists were theorizing that the mind-bending mechanics of quantum physics could be harnessed to make a new kind of computer that’s exponentially more powerful than ...

John W. Stastyshyn passed away on February 20, 2025, at the age of 77. Born on June 21, 1947, John grew up in Maine, NY and attended Buffalo State College. He is survived by his wife Diane of 47 years ...

While laptops may be great for portable computing, a desktop computer can flex some serious muscle for working on the most demanding applications or playing the latest graphics-intensive games.

That means you can snag a good laptop while saving a bit of money, and most places that sell refurbished laptops offer some kind of guarantee, so you may not even be stuck with a computer that has ...

Twenty five years ago computer programmers were racing to fix the millennium bug amidst fears that it would cause banking systems to crash and planes to fall out of the sky. Much to everyone's ...

Last year, Google announced the Willow chip, which the company claimed is capable of solving tasks that a traditional computer would take 10 septillion years (that’s a 1 followed by 25 zeros) to do.

Quantum computers also hold the danger of upending today's cybersecurity systems, where most encryption relies on the assumption that it would take too long to brute force gain access. The biggest ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new chip called Majorana 1 that it says will enable the creation of quantum computers able to solve "meaningful, industrial-scale problems in years, not decades".

Microsoft now says it has created a new state of matter in its quest to make a powerful machine, called a quantum computer, that could accelerate the development of everything from batteries to ...

Microsoft says its quantum chip is less prone to errors than rivals Chip is a hybrid between semiconductors and superconductors Microsoft says chip has fewer qubits than rivals but easier to scale ...