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 quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure. When you purchase through ...

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 ...

Abstract: Terahertz (THz) circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) demands higher precision in motion compensation (MOCO), posing significant challenges. To address this issue, this article proposes a ...

TikTok’s Chinese owner is poised to keep roughly half the profits from the app’s US business — even after ceding majority ownership to US investors under a deal pushed by President Trump, according to ...

Social media algorithms are pushing unsolicited pornographic content into children’s feeds, according to a report by the Children’s Commissioner. The data was collected prior to the implementation of ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Chattanooga FC has been named Southeast Conference Peachtree Division Organization of the Year by the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL). Chattanooga FC was one of just seven clubs in the nation ...

Crypto thrives on cutting-edge technology, but quantum computing could challenge the cryptographic foundations that keep Bitcoin secure. As quantum advancements accelerate, concerns about risks to ...

The team was composed of Hunter Forsythe of Hoover, McKinley Morris of Columbiana and Williams Beaumont of Homewood, who are all students in UAB’s nationally top-ranked Master of Science in ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...