It's day two at the Singularity Summit 2007 in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts. Today's topics include the risks of artificial general intelligence (AGI) and what preparations are necessary ...

Fellow contributor Andrew Nusca just posted a fascinating piece on how IBM scientists built the biggest artificial brain of all time-- now as smart as a house cat -- using a supercomputer powered by ...

Researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered that super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful ...

So what happens when computers transcend us? The notion of the singularity, popularized by inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, is that it will be such a profound transformation of our technology, ...

Singularity Computers was established by Daniel Cannon in 2007 and specialises in manufacturing custom-built, liquid cooling computers. The business, which employs just six other people, is also set ...

Super-powerful quantum computers, which scientists and engineers across the world are racing to build, need to be even more powerful than previously thought before they can beat today's ordinary PCs, ...