[Dave] over at Usagi Electric has a mystery on his hands in the form of a computer. He picked up a Motorola 68000 based machine at a local swap meet. A few boards, a backplane, and a power supply. The ...

The new Steam Machine has my attention for a few simple reasons, as it is built around the version of PC gaming I want more of. I do not want more pop-ups, background junk, surprise restarts, or other ...

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

Agentic AI could lift productivity, but companies may need a new class of computers before the technology can work at scale.

At its inaugural Ask 2026 developer conference — held inside a former church in San Francisco’s North Beach — Perplexity unveiled Personal Computer, a cloud-based AI agent designed to function as a ...

A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a photon-based quantum computer it says should easily scale up. A Canadian startup called Xanadu has built a new quantum computer it says can be easily ...

Google unveiled an experimental machine capable of tasks that a traditional supercomputer could not master in 10 septillion years. (That’s older than the universe.) Google’s quantum computing cooling ...

An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...