Quantum computers promise to speed calculations dramatically in some key areas such as computational chemistry and high-speed networking. But they're so different from today's computers that ...

David Rotman, editor at large, and Antonio Regalado, senior editor for biomedicine. Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been crowned the 11th Breakthrough Technology of 2025 by MIT Technology Review ...

Task View arrived with Windows 10 in 2015, providing an alternative to cramming all of your open windows into the space afforded by your screen. By clicking the Task View button on the Windows taskbar ...

Turing Award recipients Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto believe reinforcement learning will play a role in artificial general ...

Set in the heart of Silicon Valley, the Computer History Museum long cheered the developments around it. Now, it’s taking a ...

While the science is clear – wetlands have lots of benefits and we know how to build more of them – the future is not. The growing Wax Lake Delta provided data for the now-stalled Mid-Barataria ...

A single IMP connected to one computer wasn’t much of a network. So it was very exciting in September 1969 when IMP-1 was ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- There is a new state-of-the-art drinking water laboratory in Raleigh that will serve hundreds of thousands of people. Drinking water in Raleigh has always been safe ...

Brain-computer interfaces are typically unwieldy, which makes using them on the move a non-starter. A new neural interface small enough to be attached between the user’s hair follicles keeps working ...

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