A mathematician was keen to forecast the evolution of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades. During the corona epidemic many of ...

IonQ builds quantum computers and hopes to one day commercialize the product. Quantum computers can quickly solve complex calculations and perform much more difficult tasks than regular computers.

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands ... The new computing system could one day solve certain problems faster and with less ...

The first practical example of a new kind of computer can complete calculations in minutes that would take a standard version longer than the age of the universe. This so-called digital memcomputer, ...

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to make 200,000 trillion calculations in a single second! Meet Summit, the world’s most powerful supercomputer. After five years of ...

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical computer, developed by Microsof ...

Google sent shockwaves around the internet last month when it was claimed the search giant had built a quantum computer able to solve formerly impossible mathematical calculations–with some fearing ...

How to build a super fast computer that uses the bizarre properties of quantum physics is the aim of a project by computer scientists Fred Chong of the University of California, Davis, Isaac Chuang at ...