A new national curriculum for computing is being rolled out in schools which promises, amongst other things, computer programming for five year-olds. But what should children be learning in computing ...

Two new studies suggest optical computing, which uses light to process data, is much closer to becoming a faster, more energy-efficient alternative to conventional systems. One study used an optical ...

In the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company.

A UK start-up says it has made one of the world's smallest quantum computers. Orca Computing, founded two years ago by Oxford academics led by Prof Ian Walmsley, whose work on photonics is at the ...

But while policymakers and security teams debate AI ethics, a potentially more devastating force is advancing in relative ...

Around the world teams of scientists are working on the next technological revolution: quantum computing. But what makes it so special? And why do we need it? We ask physicist Dr Ruth Oulton of the ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...

Matthew Brisse is Research VP at Gartner. Quantum computing technology is shrouded in myth and mystique – which is understandable when you consider the clichés bandied around when discussing it: ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Depending on who you ask, some say that quantum computers could either break the Internet, rendering pretty much every data ...

The Parliament of the Daleks. I don't know about you,but I'm a massive Doctor Who fan.I grew up watching The Doctor,transfixed as he travelledaround the universeescaping from all the weirdand ...

Rising digital transformation initiatives, increasing reliance on high-performance computing systems, and the growing ...