Long before silicon chips, a Victorian mathematician dreamed of a machine that could run any algorithm imaginable, and in ...

Amjad Masad said that young people who are not deeply interested in computer science should not study it.

Corporate investment in AI continues to accelerate globally and patent filings for AI-related inventions are rising across ...

During my past three years as a computing education Ph.D. student, I taught computer science courses to 72 incarcerated ...

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

Quantum technologies like quantum computers are built from quantum materials. These types of materials exhibit quantum properties when exposed to the right conditions. Curiously, engineers can also ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

On April 1, 1976, Apple Computer was founded with a radical idea: that powerful computing should be personal. Fifty years later, Apple stands as one of the most influential technology companies in ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.