Computer Science and Technology News

Discarded computer parts could one day wind up fueling your car. That's because researchers have developed a simple, efficient method for recycling printed circuit boards into environmentally-friendly raw materials for use in fuel, plastic, and other use

New transistor captures the attention of the biggest American and Japanese automobile companies.

Gamers have devoted countless years of collective brainpower to rescuing princesses or protecting the planet against alien invasions. This week researchers will try to harness those finely honed skills to make medical discoveries.

Tiny sensors, only a few millimeters in size, could speed up and improve the detection of everything from explosive materials to biological pathogens to spoiled food or impure water.

As microchips shrink, even tiny defects in the lines, dots and other shapes etched on them become major barriers to performance. Princeton engineers have now found a way to literally melt away such defects, using a process that could dramatically improve

HP has announced that researchers from HP Labs, the company’s central research facility, have proven the existence of what had previously been only theorized as the fourth fundamental circuit element in electrical engineering.

Quantum cryptography may be essentially solved, but getting the funky physics to work on disciplined computer networks is a whole new headache.

The Pentagon is trying to find out if chip makers are building electronic trapdoors in key military hardware.

A computer system that can carry on a discussion with a human being by reacting to signals such as tone of voice and facial expression is being developed by an international team including Queen's University Belfast.

Imagine you’re stuck in an airport during a delay, and you don’t have an Internet connection. Thanks to a new Facebook application, you’d still be able to use your laptop computer – without being connected to the Internet.