In mathematics, proofs can be written down and shared. In cryptography, when people are trying to avoid revealing their secrets, proofs are not always so simple—but a new result significantly closes ...

The Quantum Computing Center in downtown Los Alamos will bring together up to three dozen quantum researchers from across the ...

Area basketball coaches have concerns about the CIF-Southern Section's computer rankings system for playoff seedings ahead of bracket release.

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.

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Summary: Learning to code doesn’t require new brain systems—it builds on the ones we already use for logic and reasoning. Researchers found that when people learned programming, the same ...

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 ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Section 3 of the Patents Act, 1970, provides an exclusion to patent eligibility in India, which has remained a matter of debate. The Computer-Related Inventions (CRI) Guidelines of 2017 specifically ...