Solving complex optimization problems is central to many modern technologies, from logistics and financial modeling to chip ...

Together, they form Helios, a new quantum computer built by the British-American company Quantinuum. Quantum computers use ...

The approach is known for high accuracy, but scaling it up while preserving that accuracy is technically difficult. Helios ...

Our new tech editor for Analog looks at the evolution of “analog” and how it inadvertently spun off a pop music genre. Operational Amplifiers are exactly that—amplifiers that can perform mathematical ...

Quantum computers are coming. Or, at least, that’s what current predictions say. These machines harness the power of quantum mechanics, the set of rules governing how physics operates at atomic and ...

I’ve been thinking about buying a new device, which is usually where reasonable plans go to die. I don’t want to spend big laptop money, partly because I know most of that laptop would sit on a desk ...

The rapid growth of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is creating a new digital divide in K–12 education, an AI skills gap that threatens to leave some students behind. While some schools are ...

Appearing straight out of science fiction, portable computers called cyberdecks have been growing in popularity, especially among Gen Z. They can be built with minimal parts and customized both in ...

Happy 80th anniversary, ENIAC! The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first large-scale, general-purpose, programmable electronic digital computer, helped shape our world. On 15 ...

Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss details of the company's inaugural developer day, launch of its 'Personal Computer' AI agent, status of its Amazon court ...

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...

Modern computers are built on digital logic, but that approach may be reaching its physical limits. Researchers are now revisiting analog computing, a technology once abandoned but uniquely suited to ...