A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. Before calculators and various types of complex computers were invented it was difficult for scientists and ...

Moore’s Law states the number of transistors on an integrated circuit will double about every two years. This law, coined by Intel and Fairchild founder [Gordon Moore] has been a truism since it’s ...

This is the first in a four-part series looking at the big ideas in Ray Kurzweil's book The Singularity Is Near. Be sure to read the other articles: Technology Feels Like It’s Accelerating—Because It ...

Over the last 50 years, exponential scaling of silicon microelectronics “turned a hundred dollar chip with a few dozen transistors into a 10 dollar chip with a few billion transistors,” fulfilling ...

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Alessandro Rossi receives funding from the UKRI Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund through the Measurement Fellowship Scheme at the National Physical Laboratory. He also holds a Chancellor's ...