Old computer hard drives were the size of your washing machine - here's why

Before flash drives and SSDs, storage came in giant cabinets with swappable packs. Here's what was inside, and why it took up so much space.

A Radical New Computer Could Replace Electricity With Light—and Make Processing Unstoppable

A team of researchers developed “parallel optical matrix-matrix multiplication” (POMMM), which could revolutionize tensor ...