Clive Thompson

The AI era needs ever faster chips. ASML has a monopoly on the expensive contraptions needed to pattern them. Can anyone catch up?

The good news is it’s a problem we can solve if we want to.

The Dutch firm ASML spent $9 billion and 17 years developing a way to keep making denser computer chips.

IBM’s chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue was eclipsed by the neural-net revolution. Now, 25 years on, the machine may get the last laugh.

For decades, coders wrote critical systems in C and C++. Now they turn to Rust.

Programming errors on the blockchain can mean $100 million lost in the blink of an eye. Ronghui Gu and his company CertiK are trying to help.

We are increasingly learning and communicating by means of the moving image. It will shift our culture in untold ways.