Today on Earth Day, scientists have announced a collaboration to develop an affordable photovoltaic system capable of concentrating solar radiation 2,000 times and converting 80 percent of t... Read more
There is a substance that is about to change our lives: in some ways perceptibly, and in others hidden from view, but nonetheless profound in application and implication for future te... Read more
Material could be used in fabrics and water purification Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have discovered an antibacterial polymer that can be used in everyday products such... Read more
There are few things in life quite as boring as writing a technical report. Philip M. Parker, a marketing professor at INSEAD (the European Institute of Business Administration), has written... Read more
Stretchable electronics are the future of mobile electronics Electronic devices become smaller, lighter, faster and more powerful with each passing year. Currently, however, electronics such... Read more
Paves the road to much higher-performance servers, data centers and supercomputers in the years to come In what is likley a significant development for the future of optical communications,... Read more
An important step toward creating a true artificial brain Using the world’s fastest supercomputer and a new scalable, ultra-low power computer architecture, IBM has simulated 530 billi... Read more
Novel processing method helps pave the way for carbon technology as a viable alternative to silicon in future computing IBM scientists have demonstrated a new approach to carbon nanotechnolo... Read more
Watson could, for example, provide a list of likely diagnoses, or a list of potential treatments IBM’s Watson frequently had the right answer when the supercomputer competed on Jeopardy last... Read more
It’s mobile, informative, and smart. Have you ever found yourself in the supermarket staring at a shelf full of different cereal boxes, wishing someone could just point out the one wit... Read more
Patent proposal: monitor unauthorized persons outside, authorized inside A future smart home will need a way to sense who its residents are and what they’re doing. One way to do so may... Read more
The breakthrough could revolutionize data centers and the Internet. Scientists at International Business Machines Corp. (NYSE: IBM) have developed an optical chip that can transmit as much a... Read more
Researchers have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance Scientists at IBM Research have achieved major advances in quantum computing device performance that may acce... Read more
Engineers can now begin work on creating a quantum computer Scientists at IBM Research today said they have achieved a major advance in quantum computing that will allow engineers to... Read more