The collapse of traditional career paths in tech isn’t a crisis for students but an opportunity. But opportunity only benefits those who act early. The biggest mistake you can make today is waiting ...

Karthik Sankaranarayanan trained in two quite different scientific subfields as a graduate student and as a postdoctoral ...

A years-long battle between a celebrated hydrologist and a respected environmental juggernaut led to accusations about ...

Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

Once, in a pinch at a conference where she needed to set up a printer, she asked ChatGPT to translate incomprehensible instructions into a step-by-step guide “for someone who only uses a computer for ...

Researchers debut "Humanity’s Last Exam," a benchmark of 2,500 expert-level questions that current AI models are failing.

In artificial intelligence research, scientists often describe parts of a model using simple algorithmic language. A small group of neurons might be described as acting like a counter. Another cluster ...

Today, PKC forms the foundation for e-commerce, allowing more than US$1 trillion per day in foreign exchange transactions in North America alone. 10 This technology also allows electronic banking, ...

Quantum computers need special materials called topological superconductors—but they’ve been notoriously difficult to create. Researchers have now shown they can trigger this exotic state by subtly ...

The commonly used RSA encryption algorithm can now be cracked by a quantum computer with only 100,000 qubits, but the technical challenges to building such a machine remain numerous ...