Most researchers have never seen a quantum computer. Winfried Hensinger has five. “They’re all terrible,” he says. “They can’t do anything useful.” In fact, all quantum computers could be described as ...

A technological meltdown left employees of airlines, banks, hospitals and emergency services around the world staring at the dreaded “blue screen of death” on Friday as their computers went inert in ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

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More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

Computers are an investment, and getting the right brand is pretty much everything. These machines are daily drivers for work and productivity, and picking the wrong option can mean 3-4 years of ...

Gordon Bell has been working in the IT industry for nearly 50 years. He was a key engineer and vice president of research and development at minicomputer pioneer Digital Equipment Corp. for 23 years ...

MUMBAI, India--One of the critical ingredients for the $100 computer is probably in your garage. In about three months, a little-known company called Novatium plans to offer a stripped-down home ...

NINETEEN years ago, in the July, 1945, issue of the Atlantic, Vannevar Bush predicted that the “advanced arithmetical machines of the future” would be (a) electrical in nature, (b) far more versatile ...

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