Microsoft researchers developed a prototype analog optical computer (AOC) that can perform some tasks that an AI might be used for, as well as optimization problems. The new computing system could ...

Exclusive: The software giant begins testing a technology that lets you search for words, objects and people in a video. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Engineers have introduced a holistic system that integrates sensing, storage and processing at the sensor's edge to enable efficient and secure signal processing. Brain-inspired hardware minimizes ...

In the early 1980s, Victor Business Products of Chicago began selling a microcomputer manufactured by Sirius Systems Technology in Scotts Valley, California. The Victor 9000 was quickly outsold by the ...

Last week's comment on the increasing futility of fighting the PC security wars on current terms drew a comment from a discussion contributor I don't remember hearing much from before. Here's part of ...

Many Windows-based computers come with a version of Microsoft Word, the widely used word processing software. More often then not, however, Apple computer's do not come with any version of Word.

In the past, most small-business owners got by with a typewriter, handwritten notes and a basic text-editor program, but modern-day business professionals depend on a word processor. Whether you're ...