If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The computing world is on the cusp of a transformative leap forward, as researchers at ...

When the German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse built the world’s first programmable computer in war time Berlin, it performed floating point arithmetic at a clock speed of between 5 and 10 Hz. The ...

Quantum computers run at temperatures just a hair above absolute zero. And keeping them humming along at these temps requires ...

Japanese researchers have helped develop an optical quantum computer that has the potential to drastically reduce the size of the next-generation computer and do even faster calculations. Because ...

Qubits—the fundamental units of quantum information—drive entire tech sectors. Among them, superconducting qubits could be ...

Given that the basic computing element of a computer is a transistor — an electronic switching element — and that great progress has been made in all-optical switching and logic, there is an ...

Working with UC Santa Barbara professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE ... The researchers used a magneto-optical material, cerium-substituted yttrium iron garnet (YIG), the optical ...

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