People are inherently bad at watching computers work, and unlikely to get any better, no matter how much training we get, new research with airline pilots shows.
DVDs and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light.
An immense hack of millions of government personnel files is being treated as the work of foreign spies who could use the information to fake their way into more-secure computers
A number of high-profile companies (Google, Microsoft and IBM) as well as the U.S. government have started investing heavily in the development of what is being heralded as the new era of super-fast computing technology: quantum computers.
The famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has revived the debate on whether our search for improved artificial intelligence will one day lead to thinking machines that will take over from us.
Storage has one rather annoying feature – it is never enough. That’s why the quest for more and more spacious hard drives and SSDs keeps on going but there might be some good news on the horizon – expect 100 TB hard drives by 2025.
If you’re reading this, chances are your mouse has gone belly-up and you’re looking for a new one. We don’t exactly plan for our mice to burn out, so most people are usually looking for a decent mouse that they can buy as painlessly as possible. But perhaps you have a little more money to spare right now and you’re looking to weigh out your options.
Here are some top tech myths busted as what some myths tell us, aren’t actually the truth. How long have we been using Smartphones, laptops or macs? And how much do we know about the devices we use on a daily basis? Really, many of us only know those things about our devices that help us carry out the services offered by the devices.
Computer programming had a more romantic, artistic start than one might expect. It begins with an eccentric tale, including a famous poet, a brief love, a daughter forced to scorn her father’s artistic ways, and other dramatic nuances.