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 ...

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 ...

"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." When it comes to saving Earth from a ...

For quantum computers to change the game of computation, scientists need to show that the machines’ calculations are correct. Now, there’s hope. Google’s Willow quantum chip has achieved verifiable ...

Donald Trump struggled to answer questions from the press on reports that he is seeking to force the Department of Justice to pay him $230 million as compensation for being investigated during the ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) was predictably front and centre at Oracle’s revamped and rebranded customer event – which changed its name to AI World from Cloud World in a last-minute switch-up just a ...

Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up. Science Corporation—a competitor to Neuralink founded by the former president of Elon Musk’s brain-interface venture—has ...

Question: “Am I allowed to get a copy of my student loan papers from 2003? I only borrowed $40,000 and now they say I owe $139,000. I was in bankruptcy and made payments on my loan through the ...

Technology has never been hotter. The latest batch of iPhones are being met with strong demand, according to Wall Street analysts, and artificial intelligence is the primary driver of Wall Street’s ...

After a 35-year quest, the final solution to a famous puzzle called Kryptos has been found. Two writers discovered the fourth answer to the code hidden among the Smithsonian Institution’s archives.

The critical outage occurred about 12.30am on Wednesday after a power issue caused an “unplanned outage” of the computer-aided dispatch system (CAD). Triple-0 Victoria suffered a computer crash on ...