Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

Oxford-based Lumai has launched the world’s first optical computing system that can run a ...

Chinese scientists have developed a programmable quantum computing prototype called Jiuzhang 4.0 that has set a new world ...

For decades there has been near constant progress in reducing the size, and increasing the performance, of the circuits that power computers and smartphones. But Moore’s Law is ending as physical ...

Computing is the foundation of almost every facet of modern life, whether it is through our PCs, cellphones, or the wide ...

Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced a "major advance" in optical computing technology, which they say promises to enhance data processing and encryption. This ...

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

A new generation of specialty optical fibers has been developed by physicists at the University of Bath in the UK to cope with the challenges of data transfer expected to arise in the future age of ...

In a recent study published in Nature Photonics, a research team led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), Columbia University, and Universidad Autónoma de Madrid developed a new ...

Lumai, a spin-out from the UK's University of Oxford working on a radical optical computing approach to artificial intelligence (AI) that goes beyond integrated photonics, says it has secured venture ...