Researchers have developed a breakthrough technology that solves a fundamental limit in electronics. This new technology, dubbed an "optoexcitonic switch," could lead to a new class of electronics — ...

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For tech obsessives and gadget junkies there’s no better time of the year than the beginning of January. That’s when the Computer Electronics Show, or CES, is held in Las Vegas. Since 1967, computer ...

Modern computers are a triumph of technology. A single computer chip contains billions of nanometre-scaled transistors that operate extremely reliably and at a rate of millions of operations per ...