A computer that follows a set of software instructions, which is essentially every computer. A general-purpose computer can perform any data processing operation that the instructions in a program ...

There are many reasons why working in Philly tech is inherently cool, but one of our favorites is that the city is the birthplace of the world’s very first all-electronic, programmable computer — the ...

Scientists engineered a high-tech computer that can run several simple programs by harnessing the relationships between tiny particles, or quantum mechanics, according to a new report Wednesday. The ...

The memristor array chip plugs into a custom computer chip, forming the first programmable memristor computer. The team demonstrated that it could run three standard types of machine learning ...

Serial Kickstarter entrepreneur and electronics enthusiast Bradley Slattery has launched his seventh campaign this month which takes the form of the Digirule2, an awesome programmable binary computer ...

A quantum computer that uses ordinary atoms to perform calculations could be a rival to more exotic devices, although one of its creators says there are still challenges ahead in scaling up the ...