Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction between 11 and 20 per cent of the time, a new study concludes. The researchers behind the study therefore find that ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Quantum physics gets a bad rap. The behaviour of the atoms and particles it describes is often said to be weird, and that weirdness has given rise to all manner of esoteric notions – that we live in a ...