A new type of chip has managed a calculation in minutes which would take the world’s best conventional supercomputer 10 septillion years to complete. For context, that is ‘vastly’ longer than the ...

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Can artificial intelligence come alive? That question is at the center of a debate raging in Silicon Valley after a Google computer scientist claimed over the weekend that the company's AI appears to ...

“Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can successfully run a verifiable algorithm on hardware,” Google writes in a new blog post. The ...

What just happened? In 2019, Google's Sycamore quantum computer achieved a so-called quantum supremacy record by completing a specific task in 200 seconds that would have taken a classical ...

The quantum computing company Quantinuum recently announced a quantum computer it says outperformed a landmark Google computer’s result 100-fold. The 2019 Google result used a specific test called the ...

Google’s Pixel Tablet is a unique product and a good reminder that not every tablet needs to double as a full-on computer. This issue of 9to5Google Weekender is a part of 9to5Google’s rebooted ...

I thought machines that think like humans weren’t far away. But I guess I was wrong. I just finished a book titled “Googled: The End of the World as We Know It,” and in it a computer engineer who ...

Thinking about the google quantum computer cost can feel a bit like trying to guess the price of a spaceship – it’s complex, ...