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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical computer, developed by Microsoft Research, uses light for calculations instead of ...

Soft cube-shaped computers can perform different calculations depending on how they are squished. The devices could be used for robots that respond to physical stimuli. Ryan Harne at Pennsylvania ...