What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

Roughly 20 years ago, Fantasy Football was popular with kids. Young people could select real players for their fantasy team and enjoy following its progress without being constrained by reality. In ...

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CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Previously, research on controlling gene networks has been carried out based on a single stimulus-response of cells. More recently, studies have been proposed to precisely analyze complex gene ...

Microsoft's CEO, Satya Nadella, announced a breakthrough in optical computing, published in Nature. The analog optical computer, developed by Microsoft Research, uses light for calculations instead of ...