Ars Technica’s Chris Lee has spent a good portion of his adult life playing with lasers, so he’s a big fan of photon-based quantum computing. Even as various forms of physical hardware like ...

Thanks to a new numerical simulation model validated by innovative experimental techniques, a team of scientists has been able to study the initial phase of coalescence, that is, the fusion, of a ...

The IT industry has gotten good at developing computer systems that can easily work at the nanosecond and millisecond scales. Chip makers have developed multiple techniques that have helped drive the ...

What does “immediate” mean to you? Does a fraction of a second count? Usually such a precise definition isn’t critical, but in the world of high-speed trading, microseconds—or millionths of a ...

Computer systems, hardware and networking technologies have improved so much that two of the world’s largest trading exchanges say they have begun measuring transaction times in microseconds. What is ...

Performance is a topic that never strays far from the mind of most embedded systems developers. However, relatively speaking, many of us have it easy. We develop soft real-time systems in which a few ...