Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

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 ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...

On Truth Social, Trump wrote that a deal had been reached with a "certain" company that "young people in our Country very much wanted to save," an apparent reference to TikTok. Minutes later, Treasury ...

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page. In computer science, a sorting algorithm is an algorithm that puts elements of a list into an order. The ...

Everyone wants predictive algorithms to be accurate, but there are different ways to define accuracy. Is it better to have an algorithm that's rarely perfect, but also rarely off by a mile? Or to have ...

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 ...

Abstract: Functional and technical requirements for the interfaces between algorithms and learning frameworks (including the interfaces provided by training frameworks), and between algorithms and ...