The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania It was a room-sized machine built for war ...

The World Computer: Smart Contracts and the ICO Boom (2016–2017) By 2016, Ethereum began fulfilling its vision—not just as digital money, but as a platform for decentralized applications (dApps).

Ethereum’s world computer dream choked at 15 TPS. Scaling only happened when it stopped doing everything itself. The Merger made Ethereum clean but didn’t make it fast. Layer-2s now carry the weight.

The race to build artificial intelligence is driven by little silicon chips called GPUs, which were originally created for video games. A drawing of a GPU chip Tech companies are now packing GPUs — ...

McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...