While I couldn’t travel without a laptop, a desktop computer is my main machine when I’m at home, and it’s my preferred way to work—by a long shot. While I’ve been a PC enthusiast since I was seven ...

Computer science, at its most fundamental, is all about inputs and outputs. Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator. You punch in some inputs — the specific numbers ...

New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science. But the way to do it, according to Cameron Seth, a Ph.D. researcher ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...

While you can get a desktop with a monitor, a keyboard and a mouse, sometimes, that setup can feel like it takes up too much desk space—or worse, this setup can leave your desk with a tangled rat’s ...

The race to build artificial intelligence is driven by little silicon chips called GPUs, which were originally created for video games. A drawing of a GPU chip Tech companies are now packing GPUs — ...

The latest State of Java report from Azul Systems shows that the 30-year-old programming language has moved with the times and is being used for advanced applications like adding artificial ...

Pose a question to a Magic 8 Ball, and it’ll answer yes, no or something annoyingly indecisive. We think of it as a kid’s toy, but theoretical computer scientists employ a similar tool. They often ...

Organisations using Java face a licence fee hike after Oracle’s introduction of subscription pricing for Java SE. Analyst Forrester has previously written that the move to what Oracle calls the Java ...