It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what preparations are necessary ...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful ...

As the years pass, technological advancements grow exponentially. Since the 1960s, computer speeds have doubled every year-and-a-half to two years. This rapid technological progress, though many ...

Classical computers (like the one you may be reading this on) calculate using bits, or binary digits, which can have only one of two values, either 1 or 0. Quantum computers, however, calculate using ...

And lo, on the evening of February 14th in the year 2011 A.D., mankind will send forth its most uselessly capacitive minds in a last stand against the rise of its own ruthlessly intelligent machines..

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In 1958, a Texas Instruments engineer named Jack Kilby cast a pattern onto the surface of an ...

Super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought before they can beat today's ordinary PCs, ...