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).

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions asks whether we could cope with a world where computer gave up saying no ...

An Australian startup has unveiled the world’s first commercial biological computer that runs on living human brain cells. Melbourne-based Cortical Labs launched the CL1 at Mobile World Congress in ...

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.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a room-sized machine built ...

Employees of a waste disposal company were clearing out a U.K. home late last year when they made an accidental—and valuable—discovery. After stumbling upon some old boxes, they resurfaced a Q1 ...

If you’re worried about artificial intelligence taking your job, you might want to sit down for this one. AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new “Claude” model called that can look at a computer ...