In November 1970 a patent was granted for a device dubbed an “X-Y position indicator for a display system”.

Today, if you want a computer for a particular task, you go shopping. But in the early days of computing, exotic applications needed custom computers. What’s more is that with the expense of computers ...

More than two millennia ago, Greek craftsmen built a bronze machine that could track the heavens with a precision that would ...

Quantum computers historically required massive amounts of space, but a new system will allow home users to access quantum computers via the cloud. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Aethir, a decentralized graphics processing unit (GPU) infrastructure firm, announced the May 23 retail release of Aethir Edge, an edge computing device powered by Qualcomm. Aethir Edge is integrated ...

As summer vacation winds down, thousands of devices—including Chromebooks, iPads, and laptops—are in the care of school district IT departments. There, the devices have had updates installed, missing ...

(Nanowerk News) A novel device consisting of metal, dielectric, and metal layers remembers the history of electrical signals sent through it. This device, called a memristor, could serve as the basis ...

It’s an exciting time for the wearable-computing industry. Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared in a recent interview that wearable computers were the next big thing for Silicon Valley, and the ...

It’s a brainy Band-Aid, a smart watch without the watch, and a leap forward for wearable health technologies. Researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) ...

Research displays the strength of the on-device artificial intelligence device arena as industrial and embedded AI as well as ...

eWeek content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More In a nutshell, edge computing is any computing that occurs ...