When news leaked that Google scientists had achieved "quantum supremacy," researchers immediately clashed on its implications.

The quantum realm isn’t the only way to get past binary computation. Our own brains are also a source of inspiration to overhaul the computational world.

Brain-computer interface technology is moving fast and Silicon Valley is moving in. Will we all soon be typing with our minds?

On September 20, 1989, Apple product chief Jean-Louis Gassée stood on a stage in Universal City, California, and unveiled a new computer, the Macintosh Portable. It was Apple’s first battery-powered Mac, and the goal, Gassée declared, was to build a portable Mac that was every bit as powerful and usable as the familiar desktop models: “No subset of applications, no Mac Jr., no compromise.”

In a new scientific publication, Google claims to have reached “quantum supremacy” with a 53-qubit quantum computer, meaning that it has solved a problem that no classical computer can solve within a reasonable timeframe. It is the first time this has been achieved, marking a major milestone in the field of quantum computing.

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT) have created an algorithm called Speech2Face which has been able to, simply based on listening to the sound of different human voices, create rough facsimiles of those human’s physical appearance. This research was presented on Arxiv, the electronic preprint database for scientific papers not yet sent for peer review, back in May and has already caused something of a stir.

For as long as there have been commercial computers, some hardware was designed for ultimate speed and data-crunching. Here are the numbers that show you how HPC makes a difference.

IBM continues to push its quantum computing efforts forward and today announced that it will soon make a 53-qubit quantum computer available to clients of its IBM Q Network. The new system, which is scheduled to go online in the middle of next month, will be the largest universal quantum computer available for external use yet.

The study, published today in Advanced Theory and Simulations, shows that digital computers cannot reliably reproduce the behaviour of 'chaotic systems' which are widespread. This fundamental limitation could have implications for high performance computation (HPC) and for applications of machine learning to HPC.

Today, Unix powers iOS and Android—its legend begins with a gator and a trio of researchers.

Silicon has powered the information age, but it’s reaching its physical limits. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) hold a lot of promise as a replacement if we can get around some key obstacles—and the designers of a new chip seem to have done just that. For decades computer power steadily increased in line with Moore’s Law, which observed that the number of transistors in a chip doubled roughly every two years.

A Google researcher’s paper claiming to have achieved quantum supremacy, a major early milestone in the field of quantum computing, appeared on a NASA website this week before being removed, the Financial Times reports.

Australian researchers have developed a new building block for a quantum computer, bringing the technology a tantalising step closer.

Google‘s reportedly on the verge of demonstrating a quantum computer capable of feats no ordinary classical computer could perform. The term for this is quantum supremacy, and experts believe the Mountain View company could be mere months from achieving it. This may be the biggest scientific breakthrough for humanity since we figured out how to harness the power of fire. Here’s what you need to know before it happens.

Quantum technologies promise a profound change in our digital lives. By harnessing the power of quantum physics, they can create absolutely un-hackable microchips and totally secure communication networks and they are being developed here in Europe

Intel yesterday announced its 10th-generation Ice Lake chips, likely to see their Apple debut in next year’s MacBook Pro models. Six of the new chips are of the class used in the 13-inch MacBook Pro and look set to offer dramatically improved performance in video encoding in particular… MacWorld’s Jason Cross took a look at what we can likely expect and said that the headline numbers aren’t likely to be reflected across most real-life usage.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare for PC has a bunch of welcome features like cross play, and FOV slider, and an uncapped frame rate. Just now, Call of Duty architects Infinity Ward and Activision dropped a ton of new Call of Duty: Modern Warfare details about its multiplayer, open beta, and more. With this also came a lot of information on its PC port, which is being worked on by both Infinity Ward and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled developer Beenox

Silicon’s reign in cutting-edge electronics may soon over. The carbon nanotube could be its successor.

MIT researchers have found new ways to cure headaches in manufacturing carbon nanotube processors, which are faster and less power hungry than silicon chips.

Quantum computing has been on the tech radar for some time now, but it has also been lurking in the background of the blockchain ecosystem for very different reasons. The new advancement of computing allows for complex equations and problems to be solved exponentially quicker than is currently available.