For those curious about "the cloud", here's your explainer. (Photo: Getty) You’ve likely heard people talk about “the cloud” in the context of devices and data storage—but if you’ve merely nodded ...

(Nanowerk News) Today's computers reach their physical limits when it comes to speed. Semiconductor components usually operate at a maximum usable frequency of a few gigahertz – which corresponds to ...

(Nanowerk News) Conventional computer processors have pretty much maxed out their “clock speeds” — a measurement of how fast they can toggle on and off — due to limitations of electronic switching.

A new year is underway and that means it's time to get back into a groove with work too— and you certainly don't want your computer to creep along at a snail's pace. Yet, it can seem after months of ...

It's absolutely astonishing how fast computer technology has progressed in the last 30 years. "When benchmarking the Apple iPad 2, the University of Tennessee employee achieved 4 GFLOPS per Watt on ...

A panel of leading computer scientists warned in a report issued Monday that unless the federal government significantly increases support for advanced research on supercomputing, the United States ...