If you’re picturing quantum computing as a giant red button that suddenly shuts off the internet, the reality is a little less theatrical and a lot more technical than that. The main danger isn't that ...

For centuries, humans looked to seers and astrologers to determine fate. Today, we look to algorithms, and the loss of agency ...

Before big tech engineers can improve the fairness of recommendation systems, such as social media feeds and online shopping ...

Quantum advances have not broken heavy-duty encryption yet, but seem well on their way to expose what we’ve long kept ...

Advisory council says validator signatures and wallet cryptography could be vulnerable if future quantum computers break ...

Pushing against years of scepticism, an analysis suggests quantum computers may offer real advantages for running machine ...

Quantum computing is a field of computer science that uses quantum mechanics to solve problems that are too complex for ...

Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

In the second phase of its partnership with IBM, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will develop new algorithms that ...