Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. The research, published in Nature Communications, addresses one of the key challenges to engineering computers that run on light ...

Inside your smartphone, electrons are racing around furiously.If they run, they generate heat. Because they generate heat, ...

A little while ago, I wrote about quantum computers and photoelectric fusion.At that time, while researching photoelectric ...

The age of the commercial quantum computer is a step closer after NTT Inc. and a University of Tokyo spinoff said they aim to bring an optical quantum device to market by fiscal 2030. On Aug. 3, NTT ...

Optical multiplication: a new technique for combining light signals could give optical computers a boost. (Courtesy: iStock/7io) Researchers in Russia and the UK have proposed a new and simple way to ...

Researchers use laser light to reprogram a liquid-crystal metasurface, enabling tunable optical functions for future computing, imaging and communications.

Modular optical computer chip allows stackable swappable functions By Michael Irving June 20, 2022 MIT engineers have developed a new modular computer chip that uses flashes of light to communicate ...

Although computers are overwhelmingly digital today, there’s a good point to be made that analog computers are the more efficient approach for specific applications. The authors behind a recent paper ...

Excuse me a moment—I am going to be bombastic, over excited, and possibly annoying. The race is run, and we have a winner in the future of quantum computing. IBM, Google, and everyone else can turn in ...

A research team has developed an optical computing system for AI and machine learning that not only mitigates the noise inherent to optical computing but actually uses some of it as input to help ...

Choosing between a laser and optical mouse is about more than just price. Tracking behavior, sensitivity, and the surface you ...