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 you’re setting up your computer system, a computer speaker can offer a balanced, rich audio quality that helps immerse you in your music, games and more. After researching, speaking with computer ...

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 ...

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 ...

Quantum researchers have created a new algorithm that can reduce noise in qubits while they are working, and it does this in real time. The method works for many different types of qubits, even when ...

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 ...

The vehicle trajectories. a The Awesome GINS Dataset which was collected in an open-sky industrial area in Wuhan. b The second dataset which was collected in a suburban area in the Optics Valley of ...

Two years after the debut of its Quantum Safe Programme (QSP), Microsoft is moving steadily through the process of incorporating post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms into some of the ...

What would you like to Propose? I propose adding flowcharts for selected algorithms to make it easier for beginners to understand the logic visually. Flowcharts will complement the existing code ...

Power electronic systems include many fragile elements, with power devices being the most prone to failure. Cycle counting algorithms are essential to evaluate power devices degradation and system ...

Researchers have used the jellyfish search algorithm to optimize solar PV distributed generation placement and sizing. They have tested the algorithm on an IEEE 33-bus system, with one, two, or three ...