New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic architectures New York, NY, March 18, 2026 (GLOBE ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. The Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) now embarks upon a series of guest analysis pieces ...

Artificial intelligence, as it stands today, isn’t cheap. The leaders in the field are spending tens of billions of dollars on chips, data centers and more, running up steep losses so far. That has ...

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Researchers in China published a paper describing a theoretical model for photonic computing that used light particles instead of electrons for faster processing. The team developed “parallel optical ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists in China are suggesting a new model of computing that could massively shorten processing time—if it works, that is. To contextualize their ...

A US startup called Neurophos has announced a new kind of AI chip that uses light instead of electricity to process data. Backed by Bill Gates’ Gates Frontier Fund, the company says its optical ...

Aalto University researchers have developed a method to execute AI tensor operations using just one pass of light. By encoding data directly into light waves, they enable calculations to occur ...

Light can be sculpted into countless shapes. Yet building optical devices that can simultaneously manipulate many different optical patterns at once is extremely complicated, and remains a major ...

Researchers develop ultra-fine 3D printing tech for vertical nanolasers, enabling high-density optical chips for AI, AR displays, and secure communications. (Nanowerk News) In future high-tech ...

Want to call someone a quick-thinker? The easiest cliché for doing so is calling her a computer – in fact, “computers” was the literal job title of the “Hidden Figures” mathematicians who drove the ...