Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Getty Images) Scientists want to create computers out of the same materials that power the human brain. Computer developers have ...

Visit any startup or university lab where quantum computers are being built, and it’s like entering a time warp to the 1960s—the heyday of mainframe computing, when small armies of technicians ...

Alan Turing, the closest thing computer science nerds have to a god, first posed this question in 1950. Today, I ask: Can computers create? Before I dive into the second question I want to talk about ...

There’s always room for Jell-o brains… Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin recently used a virtual computer model, also known as a neural network, to test what happens when the your brain ...

He spent decades working on artificial intelligence, striving to create computers that could replicate common sense. By Cade Metz Douglas Lenat, an artificial intelligence researcher who spent nearly ...

An £820,000 research project begins soon which could be an important step in bringing the dream of photonic computers – devices run using light rather than electronics – onto the desktop. Physicists ...

Quantum computers could create a new form of matter with strange structures and qualities not seen in nature, which could one day help unlock exotic properties similar to superconductivity. Most solid ...

As our desktop computers, laptops, mobile devices, etc. stand idly by for a huge portion of the day, the need for computing resources is growing at a fast pace. Large IoT ecosystems, machine learning ...