The difference between distributed computing and concurrent programming is a common area of confusion as there is a significant amount of overlap between the two when you set out to accomplish ...

Tigris has raised $25 million to expand its growing network of localized data storage centers — the storage layer for ...

In 1969, the U.S. Department of Defense created ARPANET, the precursor to today’s internet. Around the same time, the SWIFT protocol used for money transfers was also established. These are both early ...

Decentralized Finance (DeFi) is a phrase that is neither legal nor technical. Nonetheless, it is increasingly employed in talks concerning the future of finance and its regulation. Decentralization; ...

Quantum computing has long held the promise of solving problems far beyond the reach of classical computers, but a major bottleneck remains – scalability ...

Is it better to be as accurate as possible in machine learning, however long it takes, or pretty darned accurate in a really short amount of time? For DeepMind researchers Peter Buchlovsky and ...

Over the weekend, the people who manage the SETI@home distributed-computing project announced it would be going on hiatus at the end of March. The project was one of the first efforts that ...