We are calculating. Continue 0.3 mile, then turn left. Oh, the familiar, flat voice of the GPS device. Peter Robinson is frustrated with the machine that is supposed to keep him from getting lost in ...

Computers are not mechanical brains, and our brains are not biological computers. They differ in function, organization, and composition. Both have circuits, sure, but computer chips are ultimately ...

Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex ...

Bran Ferren, moderator, is president of R & D and the Creative Technology Group at Walt Disney Imagineering, which melds science, engineering, art, and design in virtual reality attractions and ...

The question, “Will Computers Revolt?” is really many different questions rolled into one. Will computers become the dominant intelligence on the planet and will they take our place? What does being ...

If you were looking for a model of the next wave of computing hardware, you could do worse than turn to the human brain: it's small, energy efficient, and has been functionality unmatched by any other ...

Using algorithms partially modeled on the human brain, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have enabled computers to predict the immediate future by examining a photograph. A ...

Future computers may have only one hardware component instead of multiple ones, allowing the device to rewire itself.

Computers used to be Goliaths requiring so much space that an entire building could only hold one or two. Now our computers are so portable it's easy to forget that you're even carrying one in your ...