7 June 2023
Sorting algorithms are basic functions used constantly by computers around the world, so an improved one created by an artificial intelligence could make millions of programs run faster
9 December 2022
A computer that uses light rather than electricity to transmit and manipulate data could carry out the same tasks faster and using less power
6 June 2022
A supercomputer called Frontier has been officially crowned as the world's first exascale computer – one capable of a billion billion operations per second – but more powerful machines may be out there
30 March 2022
An artificial intelligence trained to mimic the logic circuits of an ordinary computer can run code within itself, potentially speeding up certain calculations
24 January 2022
Facebook’s owner wants extraordinary computing power to develop AI models to recognise speech, translate languages and power 3D worlds
11 January 2022
Random numbers – a vital part of encryption – are hard for computers to generate, but a new trick turns memory chips into a source of random noise
1 November 2021
We could slash emissions from database backups or long machine-learning tasks by waiting to run them until renewable energy makes up the largest part of the energy mix
8 September 2021
The chips at the heart of our digital devices are manufactured by a few large companies, but an open-source approach to design could end their dominance - with implications for everyone
21 July 2021
UK computer chip designer Arm has made a 32-bit bendable processor, which is a flexible plastic sheet with a circuit and other components printed onto it
14 July 2021
Google has shown that its Sycamore quantum computer can detect and fix computational errors, an essential step for large-scale quantum computing, but its current system generates more errors than it solves
