The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...

In his new book, “A World Appears,” Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a ...

Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

Researchers from Chiba University have developed a lightweight peer-selection algorithm that significantly reduces data propagation delays without increasing resource usage on internet of things (IoT) ...

ABSTRACT: Depression is a clinically heterogeneous disorder comprising subtypes such as melancholic, atypical, anxious, and unspecified, each characterized by distinct symptom profiles and treatment ...

This repository contains comprehensive implementations of algorithms from the classic textbook "Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms" (Second Edition) by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Sanguthevar ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...