On May 16, 1960, Theodore Maiman made history by demonstrating the first functional laser at Hughes Research Laboratories.

On July 6, Seoul National University of Science and Technology announced that Donghwa Lee, a student in Professor Eunho Lee's ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

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Fourteen members of the University of Chicago faculty have received distinguished service professorships or named professorships.

The rise of AI has created an almost insatiable appetite for computing power. Training and running AI systems requires vast ...

A new study proves individual human cortical neurons have the computational complexity of an entire deep artificial neural ...

IBM just unveiled the world's first sub 1-nanometer chip: 100 billion transistors. IBM also says they've produced functioning ...

AF114 germanium transistors and related ones like the AF115 through AF117 were quite popular during the 1960s, but they quickly developed a reputation for failure. This is due to what should have made ...

Microsoft disagrees. A peer-reviewed critique of Majorana 1 claims Microsoft did not conclusively demonstrate a working topological qubit. Microsoft disagrees. But in a peer-reviewed article, Henry ...

The article argues that proposed constitutional amendments would allow Parliament to determine the applicable census for delimitation through ordinary legislation, raising concerns over constitutional ...