parallel processing

The human brain has been described as a massively parallel computing machine. But just how powerful is it? A recent…

You've probably heard about this snow kitty operating system for Macintosh computers. What you might not've heard is…

No, I didn't stutter: GPGPU—general-purpose computing on graphics processor units—is what's going to bring hot…

Most people will tell you that Windows 7 is snappier than Vista, even though the raw numbers say otherwise. But it's…

Nvidia has released what it describes as "the most powerful professional graphics card in graphics history"-the…

Besides looking a lot like Vista—and we mean a lot—Microsoft has said Windows 7 uses a lot of the same foundation,…

Columbia professor Douglas Irving Repetto designed this crazy looking project which allows humans to write…

DirectX 11 is coming, and it looks pretty awesome. Sure, you get advancements in shading and better support for…

As you've probably heard, the next version of OS X, Snow Leopard, will not wow us with a crazy circus of features…

The NY Times has a good interview with Steve Jobs in which Apple's CEO lets fly with very quotable, very…