Since the 1990s, evidence has been growing that quantum computers should be able to solve a range of particularly complex computational problems, with applications in everything from supply chain ...

We often hear that the brain can be thought of as a type of computer. But how seriously should we take this metaphor? And might it tell us anything useful about psychiatric disorders? It’s not hard to ...

The system is considered critical to air travel. A computer issue with a critical system that keeps pilots informed caused thousands of delays and a temporary grounding of the nation's airspace ...

Quantum computers may solve problems beyond supercomputers. A new test helps confirm quantum answers for errors.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on Wednesday announced that it has awarded this year's A.M. Turing prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing, to computer scientist and ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Say you want to send a private message, cast a secret vote, or sign a document securely. If you do any of these tasks on a computer, you ...

A system-wide computer problem stalled four South Shore Line trains at their stations between 20 and 45 minutes Tuesday afternoon. The issue was with Positive Train Control, the computer-operated ...

BART trains didn't run for seven hours because of a computer equipment problem. This is the fourth major BART outage issue since May. Commuters were left to find alternative modes of transportation ...

In this podcast we look at database as a service (DBaaS) with Tobias Ternström, who is vice-president and general manager of databases at hyper-converged infrastructure specialist Nutanix. We talk ...