The computational knowledge engine Wolfram Alpha has launched a new version optimised for use on Apple's iPhone and iPod.

NICS, the US National Institute for Computational Sciences has just upgraded its Cray XT5 supercomputer called Kraken. It's so powerful, it puts out petaFLOPS of peak power

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Nearly five thousand people have signed an online petition to the British government calling for an official apology to be issued over the treatment of Alan Turing..

The world's first universal programmable quantum computer has been unveiled in Colarado by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

ATI does it again with its latest GPU, combining superb performance with a reasonable price

NASA scientists hope that a chemical sensor for smartphones might one day form the backbone of sophisticated chemical detection network

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An Isuppli reportpredicting the death of Moore's Law by 2014 has analysts close to Intel breaking out in hives.

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