The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has put together a supercomputer that's based around a cluster of graphics processing units (GPUs)

Scientists working for IBM have announced they have programmed a supercomputer with a working simulation of a cat’s brain

The days when laptops occasionally explode due to their lithium batteries breaking down could soon be over thanks to a new invention which shuts down the explosive reaction.

Researchers at the Arizona State University (ASU) have been awarded a two year US$5.1 million grant by the USA government to develop a radically improved battery..

Last week, in honour of the Windows 7 launch, we covered Microsoft's biggest successes in the computing field. This week, in the interest of balance, we're looking to the company's dark side..

Xerox is claiming a major breakthrough in the field of printable circuitry with a new form of 'silver ink' that could allow electronics to be produced more cheaply and flexibly..

Intel and Numonyx have announced a research milestone in the development of stackable, cross-point phase change memory (PCM) technology, which could fundamentally alter the non-volatile memory market in years to come.

Two-factor security firm Deepnet Security has launched a new system designed to turn an iPhone into a one-time password generator..

Business users will communicate with a unified toolset that integrates instant messaging (IM), social networks, conferencing and email within the next four years, according to Gartner.

Microsoft's Windows 7 could see a warm reception from businesses in the coming months, according to recent survey..

Memory chips based on multiferroics could theoretically offer static memory that doesn't require constant refreshing, holds data over loss of power and is fast to both write and read... the holy grail of computer memory

We've all had great ideas in idle moments that are either forgotten or impractical, but these are people who identified technological advances and made them happen..

Anti-spyware protection with anti-virus support

Major update to the complete Internet security suite

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

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has moved swiftly to play down the significance of the arrest on terrorism charges of a nuclear physicist who worked at the Hadron Collider for six years.

The future of multitouch applications might rest on the surface of your mouse, rather than the pixels on your screen. We examine how futuristic mice could fundamentally change the way we double click.

An employee has accidentally leaked details of Microsoft’s next operating system via his LinkedIn profile..

This year's Nobel Prize for Physics has been given to three men behind fibre-optics and digital photography..

Google has added new tools to its 'show options' link which nestles at the top of the search results page..