One of the best ways to evaluate the performance of your CPU is to run one of the many great benchmarks that are available. They’ll test its raw performance in both single-threaded and multi-threaded ...

RealTemp is a popular CPU temperature monitoring application that reports minimum and maximum temperatures from each CPU core. The free program is reliable, quick and accurate and is supported by ...

Hany Farid told Nova's "Particles of Thought" podcast that computer science is no longer the future-proof career that it once ...

At Indian Mounds Elementary in Bloomington, K-5 students are encouraged to incorporate computer science into every subject — boosting their tech skills and creativity along the way.

This article was first published by TVW. The timeline of Ed Lazowska’s life in computing doubles as a quick history of the field. From mainframes to PCs to the internet’s public debut in the 1990s and ...

PC freezing, going slow, or running into hitches where it shouldn’t? Even if you have one of the best processors, high CPU usage could be to blame. Unfortunately, if you aren’t too computer savvy, ...

“Generating interesting test cases for CPU fuzzing is akin to generating programs that exercise unusual states inside the CPU. The performance of CPU fuzzing is heavily influenced by the quality of ...

I just got my mother a new laptop (gateway m210), and it appears to have not come with a utility to set up power profiles. On the two laptops that I've owned (an ibm t21 and a sony vaio vx88), both ...

The Busy Beaver Challenge, a notoriously difficult question in theoretical computer science, is now producing answers so ...

Today, Arm has revealed a whole new lineup of chip component designs that we can look forward to landing in upcoming SoCs from companies like Qualcomm, MediaTek, Samsung, and even Google itself — if ...

I just put together a cheap computer for a friend (Sempron 2600+, Gigabyte K8VM800M) and I'm consistently getting errors installing software. By software install errors, I mean that the intallation ...