The GPU technology is also likely to find its way into consumer graphics cards in the future The U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has just introduced Titan, the world’s most powerful [...]

TECHNOLOGY tends to cascade into the marketplace in waves. Think of personal computers in the 1980s, the Internet in the 1990s and smartphones in the last five years. Computing may be on the cusp of [...]

A new security approach would let users input patterns instead of words to verify identity It seems like something out of a Robert Ludlum spy novel. Someone tries to coerce you into revealing your computer [...]

It’s relatively easy to collect massive amounts of data on microbes. But the files are so large that it takes days to simply transmit them to other researchers and months to analyze once they are [...]

They can also share information easily with consulting agronomists, crop insurance agents, the Agriculture Department and others. THE world doesn’t necessarily need the gazillion-and-one games that seem available on smartphones. But it could use more [...]

Since May 2011, Scientific American has promoted more than 100 citizen science projects on its Web site With a little instruction and education, hundreds if not thousands of volunteers armed with smart phones, computers and Internet access can [...]

EnergyPoints, a data mining startup, has developed a way to compare whether a wind farm or a desalination plant will do more good–using just one simple number. There are any number of problems facing the [...]

Have the potential to replace electronic circuits have the potential to replace electronic circuitsPhysicists at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with colleagues in Taiwan and China, have developed the world’s smallest semiconductor [...]

Give computers a huge boost in speed and energy efficiency Electrical engineers at The University of Texas at Arlington and at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have devised a new laser for on-chip optical connections that [...]

Big data needs big power. The server farms that undergird the Internet run on a vast tide of electricity. Even companies that have invested in upgrades to minimize their eco-footprint use tremendous amounts: The New [...]

“We think this is potentially groundbreaking” Modern-day computers are based on logic circuits using semiconductor transistors. To increase computing power, smaller transistors are required. Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that can fit [...]

System developed at MIT could combine power harvested from light, heat and vibrations to run monitoring systems. Researchers at MIT have taken a significant step toward battery-free monitoring systems — which could ultimately be used [...]