CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

De’Longhi, maker of high-end coffee machines, is getting into the computer business—sort of. The Treviso, Italy-based company released marketing materials about a month ago arguing that some of its ...

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A team of Harvard physicists built the first-ever quantum computing machine that can operate continuously without restarting, achieving a major breakthrough in a field that could revolutionize ...