The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...

Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China science body says.

Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.

Balancing electronic and ionic charge carriers in polymer nanofilms significantly improves physical reservoir computing, a ...

As programmable photonics use light instead of electrons to transmit and process signals, they promise faster, more ...

From AI researchers to programmers, inventors to open-source advocates, these remarkable individuals bettered the world ...

Quantum computers are shifting from lab curiosities into real machines that can already outperform classical systems on ...

Fully functional quantum computers remain out of reach, but optimism across the field is rising. At the Q2B Silicon Valley conference in December, researchers and executives ...

An international team has obtained the first-ever experimental evidence of electrical behavior that mimics a Josephson junction with two superconductors even though only one was present.

A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...

Science and Technology Daily, in collaboration with media partners and a panel of academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, has selected the 2025 top 10 ...

The robot is hard to see without a microscope. It’s small enough to rest on the ridge of a fingerprint and can operate in ...