Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

In 1989, a problem inside CERN exposed how badly the digital world needed a universal way to share information, and Tim ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

Google's new whitepaper says it could take only minutes for a quantum system to crack Bitcoin.

The world of mathematics is full of unreachable corners, where unsolvable problems live. Now, yet another has been exposed. In 1900, the eminent mathematician David Hilbert announced a list of 23 key ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Our computers are complex devices, and issues can arise out of nowhere. It can be incredibly frustrating when one-half of the screen has turned entirely black and unusable, but there are ways you can ...