Quantum computers will break encryption one day. But converting data into light particles and beaming them around using thousands of satellites might be one way around this problem. When you purchase ...

(Nanowerk News) While computer chips are getting smaller and faster every year, one challenge remains unsolved: combining electronics and photonics on a single chip. Although components such as micro ...

A new publication from Opto-Electronic Science; DOI 10.29026/oes.2022.220010 considers optical logic gates in future computers. If you are reading this on your smartphone, its CPU (central processing ...

For decades, computers have relied on digital logic and binary code. That approach is now running into physical and economic limits. Engineers are revisiting analog computing, a method once considered ...

Mushrooms are an incredibly versatile product used for many purposes all over the world. We may use them on our steaks and in our stir fry, but they hold promising potential for the future of ...

COLLEGE PARK, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IonQ (NYSE: IONQ), a leader in the quantum computing industry, announced today a partnership with NKT Photonics, a subsidiary of Hamamatsu Photonics, to procure ...

If you’ve heard of the game Minecraft, you may also have heard about all the folks who’ve built working virtual arithmetic logic units (ALUs) out of the LEGO-like game world itself. Sure, they’re more ...

Though much of the current hype around ‘AI PCs’ is marketing, building blocks are being put in place that could make future computers much more powerful and useful. Intel’s upcoming “Panther Lake” ...