Electric cars begin and end with this one word, range. The range of an electric car refers to how far an electric car can go before its battery stack requires recharging. So far, a ra... Read more
Science fiction becomes reality. Worlds collide. At the end of each year, IBM examines market and societal trends expected to transform our lives, as well as emerging technologies from IBM... Read more
The physical limits of conventional computer designs are within sight Ever since the early days of modern computing in the 1940s, the biological metaphor has been irresistible. The fi... Read more
Eventually, our refrigerator will let us know when we’re low on milk Cloud computing is a game-changer for businesses, which now face the choice of adapting to the demand for ub... Read more
The project may even spawn global standards for underwater noise One device resembles a big fishing float with a piston that goes up and down as it bobs on the waves. Another uses the up-and... Read more
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President Obama is expected, without delay, to sign into law the first large-scale reform to U.S. patent laws in 60 years. It brings U.S. law into line with most international practices, and... Read more
If you want to make processors 1,000 times faster, you’re going to need some serious technology, right? That would be the conventional wisdom. But 3M and IBM have unlocked a secret low-tech... Read more
What’s new, and old, about the latest in computing Today IBM unveiled a new ‘cognitive computing’ microchip that, according to the company, emulates some of the brain... Read more
IT WAS not quite a foregone conclusion, but all the smart money was on the machine. Since the first rehearsal over a year ago, it had become apparent that Watson—a supercomputer built by IBM... Read more
