What is a CPU? A guide to the 'brain' of your computer or phone, including how it works

A CPU, or central processing unit, is a vital part of your computer or phone, and is responsible for executing every command you or an app makes.
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What are the uses for CAD? Discover how computer-aided design is used in a wide range of industries

Wondering about the uses for CAD? Computer-aided design software has shaped the evolution of many fields, allowing designers to create both 2D or 3D plans and prototypes of systems, spaces and objects ...

What is DNS? A computer engineer explains this foundational piece of the web – and why it’s the internet’s Achilles’ heel

The Domain Name System, like most pieces of the internet, was designed to be distributed across many computers. Concentration ...
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NSF Funded Expedition Project Uses AI to Rethink Computer Operating Systems

Aditya Akella leads the project that aims to boost performance of OSes and help enable assistant robots, autonomous vehicles and smart cities. Research that will use artificial intelligence to boost ...
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Exclusive: Stanford AI leader Fei-Fei Li building 'spatial intelligence' startup

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, May 3 (Reuters) - Prominent computer scientist Fei-Fei Li is building a startup that uses human-like processing of visual data to make artificial intelligence (AI) capable of ...