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 ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

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A TikTok deal could be announced this week, according to White House officials. New details have emerged that suggest several new and old investors, including Oracle and private-equity firm Silver ...

Procedural generation has a long history of doing so much with so little. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone who is ...

France’s New Imaging Technologies has launched a short-wave infrared line-by-line scanning camera for high-definition and high-performance silicon PV inspection systems. New Imaging Technologies (NIT) ...

Sometimes, you may need to turn a physical document into a digital file, either to keep a copy on your computer or send it to someone via email. If you have an all-in-one or multi-function printer, ...