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

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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 ...

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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 ...