Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...

For nearly 80 years, modern computing has depended on electrons rushing through circuits. This ...

Using a new technique that can create vacancies at any site across a material and then shrink it to about 1/2,000 of its ...

A new programmable photonic chip eliminates static power consumption while enabling electrical control, promising energy-efficient AI computing, faster prototyping, and scalable optical systems for ...

Researchers create a photochromic fluorescent system that performs optical neural computing and visual output in one step, cutting power use and complexity. (Nanowerk News) The rapid growth of ...

Engineers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have announced a "major advance" in optical computing technology, which they say promises to enhance data processing and encryption. This ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Optical information processing is a critical technology for applications ranging from machine vision to high-speed optical communication. However, current photodetection systems ...

Founded in 2021, Virginia-based Procyon Photonics is a startup aiming to change the future of computing hardware with its focus on optical computing. What makes the company unique is that their entire ...

Researchers have developed a new shrinking technique that enables the creation of tiny 3D ...

Of the many feats achieved by artificial intelligence (AI), the ability to process images quickly and accurately has had an especially impressive impact on science and technology. Now, researchers in ...