Microsoft researchers developed a prototype analog optical computer (AOC) that can perform some tasks that an AI might be used for, as well as optimization problems. The new computing system could ...

Exclusive: The software giant begins testing a technology that lets you search for words, objects and people in a video. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

In the past, the CPU was the undisputed center of computing. But today, the GPU has taken that crown—not by replacing the CPU entirely, but by surpassing it in relevance, performance, and versatility ...

Engineers have introduced a holistic system that integrates sensing, storage and processing at the sensor's edge to enable efficient and secure signal processing. Brain-inspired hardware minimizes ...

In the early 1980s, Victor Business Products of Chicago began selling a microcomputer manufactured by Sirius Systems Technology in Scotts Valley, California. The Victor 9000 was quickly outsold by the ...

China has launched 12 satellites, which experts describe as the world’s first operational space-based computing network, applying edge computing principles to orbital operations in a development that ...

Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word.

Last week's comment on the increasing futility of fighting the PC security wars on current terms drew a comment from a discussion contributor I don't remember hearing much from before. Here's part of ...