Quantum computers—devices that process information using quantum mechanical effects—have long been expected to outperform classical systems on certain tasks. Over the past few decades, researchers ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

AI’s biggest constraint isn’t algorithms anymore. It’s data…specifically, high-quality, forward-looking data. It is the “Rare ...

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The Second World War was won on the home front as well as the battlefield. As early as 1942, the British government pledged itself, as soon as the Nazis were defeated, to slaying “Five Giants on the ...

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the ...

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

As President Trump extended for a fourth time a deadline to determine TikTok’s future in the United States, details of an agreement to address concerns about the app began to emerge. As President ...

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 ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

As CPA firms grow into the $10 million to $100 million revenue range, operational complexity increases, especially during peak periods like tax season. Leadership must prioritize strategies to reduce ...