How Search Engines Work
Every day, more than eight billion searches are made on Google alone, and perhaps another two billion on Bing, DuckDuckGo, Baidu, Yandex, and the…
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Compilers and Programming Languages
A modern compiler is one of the most complex software systems ever built. It reads a text file written by a human, parses it,…
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The Open Source Movement
Open-source software runs the internet, the world’s stock exchanges, every Android phone, most of the cloud, and a growing share of the artificial-intelligence stack.…
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The GPU Computing Story
A modern GPU contains more than a hundred billion transistors, performs more than a hundred trillion floating-point operations per second, and is now the…
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How a Chip Is Made
A modern smartphone contains a chip with more than twenty billion transistors, the smallest features only a few nanometres across, fabricated in a factory…
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Small Reactors, Big Promises
In October 2024, the four largest cloud providers — Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Meta — began signing the largest wave of nuclear power contracts…
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