Silk-weaving loom dating to Western Han is world’s oldest known ‘computer hardware’ with corresponding ‘software’, China ...

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The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

HONOLULU (KHON2) — Quantum computing is a new type of computing that is very different from the regular computers we use today. Regular computers, like the ones in phones, laptops or video game ...

Researchers at the University of Maryland have created the first programmable quantum computing module, opening the way for post-binary PCs. Currently our machines operate purely with 1s and 0s. In ...

Hyper-accurate long-term weather forecasting. Life-saving drugs discovered through deep study of the behavior of complex molecules. New synthetic carbon-capturing materials to help reverse climate ...

A computer that uses ternary circuits comprising three stages rather than binary circuits, which operate in two. A ternary computer named Setun was built at the Moscow State University in 1958, and an ...

In the late 1930s, Claude Shannon showed that by using switches that close for "true" and open for "false," it was possible to carry out logical operations by assigning the number 1 to "true" and 0 ...