In 1996, IBM's Deep Blue faced off against Garry Kasparov, the greatest chess mind on Earth — and changed history.

Various optics, including lenses and mirrors, as well as other test equipment which are used for directing and measuring the light collected from atoms in the cavity array microscope in the lab of ...

The government has announced it is ploughing £36m into the Dawn supercomputer, which will lead to a sixfold increase in performance and make it one of the most powerful supercomputers in the UK.

In 2024, researchers completed the first-ever map of the circuitry of a fruit fly’s brain. Despite its diminutive size, the organ packs almost 500 feet of wiring and 54.5 million synapses into the ...

It was just three months ago that Nvidia turned heads in the tech world with the DGX Spark, a $4,000 desktop supercomputer that was meant to help democratize AI beyond corporate giants. Things move ...

Dell's XPS 14 currently costs over $2,000. An AMD executive predicts that PC builders will likely make piecemeal upgrades this year, instead of building entirely new systems. And new AI supercomputers ...

What would it mean to simulate a human brain? Today’s most powerful computing systems now contain enough computational firepower to run simulations of billions of neurons, comparable to the ...

He spent two decades hosting the PBS series, during the formative years of personal computing. It was seen in more than 300 cities at its peak. By Trip Gabriel Stewart Cheifet, who enthusiastically ...

Unsurprisingly, AI is everywhere at CES 2026 and they usually come in the form of wearables. However, AI PCs, computers built to handle all types of Large Language Models (LLMs) are also having a ...

Large quantum computers may be able to solve problems impossible for even the best traditional supercomputers – but in order to do so, some of them might need far more energy than those supercomputers ...

Stewart Cheifet, the television producer and host who documented the personal computer revolution for nearly two decades on PBS, died on December 28, 2025, at age 87 in Philadelphia. Cheifet created ...

Chinese and American labs are competing to see who will be the first to deploy a supercomputer that powers AI systems from space. Starlink, Blue Origin, Google, and startup Starcloud are all upgrading ...