Ibegbulem Alexander did not earn the moniker “chairman” by presiding over the affairs of any of Nigeria’s 774 local ...

So, you’re wondering if there’s a LeetCode app, right? It’s a common question for anyone trying to get better at coding, ...

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.

When your system suddenly stops responding, the first thing to do is to wait a minute. Rebooting is useful, as it clears temporary files, refreshes system memory, and resolves a surprising number of ...

There are currently about 80 companies across the world manufacturing quantum computing hardware. Because I report on quantum computing, I have had a chance to watch it grow as an industry from up ...

The Home Office could be banned from unlawfully using computer algorithms to recommend whether migrants should be deported. Privacy International has filed a ...

The team at Google has been developing new, more efficient algorithms, some of which involve building on work done with approximate modular exponentiation. The team has also been working to improve ...

Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company's vast ...

Quantum can learn from the AI hype cycle, finding ways to manage expectations of what could be a very transformative technology. In the near- and mid-term, we need to not overplay things and be ...

Quantum computing is getting there. After years of slow but steady development to create a useful quantum computer that can outperform classical machines, we’re still squarely in the “noisy ...