The computer, at its core, is an input-output device: it receives instructions, executes programmes, performs calculations ...
Sophisticated silk-weaving loom dating back to the Western Han dynasty used physical pattern cards which acted like ancient software.
A 2,000-year-old loom found in a Chinese tomb may hold the key to the origins of computing.
As China’s largest official scientific body, CAST’s claim to the world’s earliest computer is a big deal. It comes at a time ...
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International trends — extending the argument

Climate change, AI, geopolitical shifts drive a world in flux, where societies, economies, warfare, no longer binary ...
Chemist Anne Lüscher showed at 39C3 how synthetic DNA can be used for data storage and tamper-proof authentication.
Even though these characters only appeared in a single episode of a "Star Trek" series, they left an unforgettable mark on ...
The new storage system could hold family photos, cultural artifacts and the master versions of digital artworks, movies, ...
Russian researchers have reportedly built a 72-qubit quantum computer with a three-zone design that delivers 94 percent ...
The Majorana 1 quantum computer was hailed as a significant breakthrough by Microsoft, but critics say the company has yet to ...
And, as we changed this means of interaction rather quickly, one way we did it has to do with games. Game engines are now AI ...
A new, high-performance brain-computer interface (BCI) can be rapidly implanted through a minimally invasive procedure. The ...