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Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

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A tiny change at the boundary between two oxide layers may point to a less power-hungry future for artificial intelligence.

In January middle school and high school students at more than 200 host sites across the U.S. and parts of Canada competed in ...

Creative problem solving and human-centered design remain at the heart of computer science as AI handles the repetitive tasks ...

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When solving a puzzle, the answer could lie in your dreams. In a study of lucid dreamers, playing soundtracks linked with unsolved puzzles helped the sleepers solve the problems the next day, ...

United Launch Alliance was hoping to ramp up its new Vulcan rocket launches this year, but won’t be launching any national security missions until it solves a recurring issue of booster nozzles ...