Rapid advances in the kind of problems that quantum computers can tackle suggest that they are closer than ever to becoming ...

Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. A ...

Like their conventional counterparts, quantum computers can also break down. They can sometimes lose the atoms they ...

Yale computer scientist David Gelernter talks with NPR's Arun Rath about using computers and the Internet to teach young people to appreciate the beauty of what he calls "serious music." David ...

IBM's quantum computing roadmap leads to the development of quantum processors with thousands of qubits by 2025. Like the early developers of conventional computing methods back in the 1940s, today’s ...

Ricky J. Sethi receives funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). This research was supported in part under grant #1019343 to the ...

A security researcher known for devising inventive ways to siphon data from computers that are disconnected from the internet has found a new exploit able to exfiltrate data to a nearby smartphone.

Despite the growing alarm about the harmful effects of sitting too much, Americans are sitting more than in the past — in part because people are spending more leisure time in front of the computers.

Researchers have found that, based on enough Facebook Likes, computers can judge your personality traits better than your friends, family and even your partner. Using a new algorithm, researchers have ...

The fuzzy sound of a distorted electric guitar is, for rock fans, a thing of beauty. It has been a staple of music since the early 1950s, when guitarists strained the vacuum tubes inside their ...

Kids are "digital natives." They grew up using computers, and therefore are more "tech savvy" than older people. Right? No! Well, the first part's right, but the second part is increasingly wrong.

Anybody have a nice, easy way to use two computers with one speaker set?<BR>I have two computers, but since I like the speakers I have and don't want to clutter my desk any more than it is with a ...