The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But 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 ...

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.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure. When you purchase through ...

This JavaFX-based application visually demonstrates core computer graphics algorithms — DDA Line Drawing and Midpoint Circle Drawing — implemented from scratch using low-level pixel plotting directly ...

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 ...

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: Manual timetable preparation in colleges and universities is often time-consuming, error-prone, and inefficient, especially with increasing student and course complexity. This paper proposes ...

Procedural generation has a long history of doing so much with so little. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone who is ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...