A computer predicts your thoughts

Finish researchers have developed a technique in which a computer models visual perception by monitoring human brain signals. In a way, it is as if the computer tries to imagine what a human is thinking about. 

Quantum computers could be next great leap for mankind

Scientist Eric Ladizinsky compares advent of new technology to discovery of fire

SDSC Launches Comet Supercomputer

When the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) launched its first supercomputer, a Cray XMP-48, it was about as powerful as an iPhone is today. Now SDSC has formally taken the wraps off Comet, a new petascale supercomputer that is over 2 million times more powerful than that first system.

Researchers use virtual-reality avatars to create 'out-of-body' experience

Volunteers experienced the virtual bodies as if they were their own, with possible applications in computer games or to transport people digitally to other locations