It all started with two kids who shared a geeky hobby. Growing up in Seattle, childhood friends Bill Gates and Paul Allen were obsessed with an emerging industry called computing. As teenagers, they ...

A computer that uses light rather than digital switches for calculations could help reduce the energy demands of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a new study. The scientists who invented the ...

Microsoft Corp. is partnering with startup Atom Computing Inc. to launch a quantum computer powered by neutral atom qubits. The tech giant detailed the collaboration today at its annual Ignite ...

One topic that has continued to dominate the cloud computing news cycle in 2025 is the growing hold the hyperscale tech ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The quantum computer-ready system is intended to help scientists identify viable molecules in a short amount of time. As advances in ...

Microsoft's most expensive Surface device is about to get even pricier. At a press event on Wednesday, Microsoft is set to unveil several Surface Pro tablets, Surface Laptop models and a Surface ...

Last month Microsoft announced, with fanfare, that it had created a new kind of matter and used it to make a quantum computer architecture that could lead to machines “capable of solving meaningful, ...

Microsoft is cutting jobs in its Azure business to pursue AI, while increasing focus on quantum computing, according to internal memo obtained by BI.

Microsoft's chief product officer of experiences and devices says people should keep learning to code. Computer science isn't dead, Aparna Chennapragada said on a podcast, and engineer roles will ...

Amber Alstead studied a panel of wires as an instructor guided her through how to disconnect and reconnect a computer's hard drive. "So we snap this one or this one?" Alstead asked friends Stephanie ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, we’re still squarely in the “noisy ...