The Antikythera Mechanism, built over 2,000 years ago with 30 bronze gears, shows ancient Greeks created the world’s first ...

Pitched as “analog lifestyles,” it’s different than a short-term digital detox. Instead, it’s an effort to slow down and find tangible ways to complete daily tasks and find entertainment, especially ...

Modern computers are built on digital logic, but that approach may be reaching its physical limits. Researchers are now ...

Computers have become an essential part of our everyday lives. Students are using computers daily through their need to attend online classes, play games, searching information, or do their school ...

Analog computers are systems that perform computations by manipulating physical quantities such as electrical current, that map math variables, instead of representing information using abstraction ...

Ancient civilizations demonstrated remarkable ingenuity in solving complex engineering, architectural, and technological challenges using tools and methods that often seem impossibly sophisticated for ...

Analog computing stands apart from digital systems in some interesting ways. Instead of crunching numbers through step-by-step algorithms and binary logic, analog computers model problems by ...

Microsoft Research has built a prototype computer that doesn’t rely on electrons zipping through silicon but on beams of light. The machine, called an analog optical computer (AOC), is designed to ...

Microsoft’s Experimental Optical Computer Could Run AI Workloads With Less Energy Your email has been sent Research conducted by the Microsoft Research lab in Cambridge could contribute to the ...

Nadella took to X, formerly Twitter, saying Microsoft's "breakthrough work on an analog optical computer points to new ways to solve complex real-world problems with much greater efficiency. He added ...