This gallery is part of the What Computer Had the Biggest Impact on You? series. Also, read more articles in the 70th Anniversary issue. I received lots of feedback about the first computer you used, ...

A new rubber computer combines the feel of a human hand with the thought process of an electronic computer, replacing the last hard components in soft robots. Now, soft robotics can travel where ...

AI has consumed/claimed the supply of silicon and magnetic storage for the next two or three years. Severe shortages of critical components will lead to massive disruption in a wide swath of products, ...

Logic gates are the fundamental building blocks of computers, and researchers at the University of Rochester have now developed the fastest ones ever created. By zapping graphene and gold with laser ...

From AT&T to NASA, women working as computers performed the calculations that made modern science possible. In the early ...

A device containing a pneumatic logic circuit made from 21 microfluidic valves could be used as a new type of air-powered computer that does not require any electronic components. The device could ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology. But there might be help on the way. Over the ...

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