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By combining surface codes with lattice surgery, researchers have shown how logical qubits can be manipulated and entangled ...

Researchers have created a “biocomputer” made up of lab-grown human brain tissue and electronic circuits that they say can perform tasks including voice recognition. The idea is to build a “bridge ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometer-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per ...

There are various computer system utilities that must run periodically, or the risk is run of harm in terms of performance and reliability. These include anti-virus software so that a system doesn’t ...

Picture this: an email message shoots out to all computer users at a company that says something like, “peak system performance will occur between 12 noon and 4 PM Monday through Thursday.” It would ...

Secondary hard drives are commonly added to a computer to increase the data storage capacity, but they can also be used to improve system performance. Hard drives are the slowest part of the computer ...