Smart investors looking at silicon photonics

Computers using light rather than electric currents for processing are gaining traction and startups that have solved the engineering challenge of using photons in chips are getting big funding.

No idea about directories, folders, or files

Having moved from generations who were frightened to touch computers because they were frightened something would go wrong, The Verge reports that professors are increasingly seeing the rise of a generation that can’t understand even the basic fundamentals of how computers and operating systems work.

Computers can’t tell anything from reading a face

A team of boffins have put to bed a theory that a computer can read your emotional state by reading your face.