Democracies won the 20th century on the battlefield as well as in the marketplace and the war of ideas, resulting in a world ...

Chinese Syndrome: Chinese institutions have been largely absent from the TOP500 HPC rankings since 2023, when worsening US-China relations led Beijing to stop submitting its most capable systems to ...

NVIDIA Vera Rubin supercomputer packs over 7 exaflops of AI performance and 5 petaflops of FP64 compute into a single rack — ...

Kharizmi helped solidify the concept of algorithms in mathematics and popularized algebra and the use of the zero.

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence Microsoft claimed today that it has improved its ...

Chinese researchers, in collaboration with Huawei Technologies, have built the world’s first parallel processor using a two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor. As silicon devices approach their physical ...

Making his second feature in France, the Iranian director meditates on fiction and reality but never draws us into his drama of trickery and deceit. As she starts the writing process, she pecks at the ...

The great Iranian director Asghar Farhadi is back in Cannes competition for a fifth time with his first film in five years and arguably one that ranks with his very best. That is a high bar since two ...

In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor showed that a quantum computer could factor large numbers fast enough to break the encryption used to secure most of the internet. Thirty-two years later, no one has ...

Modern computing has many foundational building blocks, including central processing units (CPUs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and data processing units (DPUs). However, what almost all modern ...

In 1947, engineers stared at the room‑sized Harvard Mark II computer in frustration as it kept malfunctioning. They finally opened a panel and discovered a moth wedged inside an electromechanical ...