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Remembering Alan Turing At 100 -- Endgadget Alan Turing would have turned 100 this week, an event that would have, no doubt, been greeted wi...

Noah Goodman, right, and Michael Frank, both assistant professors of psychology, discuss their research at the white board that covers the w...

Matthew Ginsberg with a puzzle from The New York Times that Dr. Fill, the computer program he created, is solving. Dr. Fill will compete thi...

Scientists think adding a baby's imaginative powers and all-around braininess to computers would make these machines smarter and more hu...

The Rise And Fall Of Personal Computing -- Asymco Thanks to Jeremy Reimer I was able to create the following view into the history of comput...

Caltech engineers have developed a new way to isolate light on a photonic chip, allowing light to travel in only one direction. This finding...

Supercomputer An IBM Blue Gene/P supercomputer rack. Wikimedia Commons From Popular Science: If you could put all the data in the world onto...

Ken Olsen (Credit: Computer History Museum) From The CBS News: Ken Olsen, co-founder of the defining technology company of a bygone era, Dig...

Big freeze: A faulty software update from McAfee led to thousands of PCs repeatedly rebooting in offices, hospitals and schools around the w...

From The BBC: Microsoft has launched "Fix It" software that keeps an eye on a PC and automatically repairs common faults. The soft...

Flexible Silicon More flexible circuits can help silicon stay relevant in the future of computing Science/University of Illinois at Urbana...

Until now, infrared germanium lasers required expensive cryogenic cooling systems to operate (Source: iStockphoto) From ABC News (Australia)...

Above: Three decades of shrinkage. From Pingdom: It took 51 years before hard disk drives reached the size of 1 TB (terabyte, i.e. 1,000 GB)...

Image : MIT researchers have demonstrated the first laser built from germanium that can produce wavelengths of light useful for optical comm...

From The Economist: GEEKS may roll their eyes at the news that Namibia is only now getting its first mainframe—a technology that most consid...

Sketch of artificial wet neuronal networks. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of Southampton) From Science Daily: Science Daily (Jan. 1...

New computer? Feed it a healthy diet of powerful software. Heather McKinnon/The Seattle Times/Newscom From Christian Science Monitor: ’Tis ...

Netbooks are under pressure as tech firms concentrate on mobile computing. From The BBC: Rising prices and better alternatives may mean curt...

From Gadget Lab: Intel’s six- and eight-core processors are the fastest chips that consumers can get their hands on. But if you are among th...