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 quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure. When you purchase through ...

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 ...

Abstract: Terahertz (THz) circular synthetic aperture radar (CSAR) demands higher precision in motion compensation (MOCO), posing significant challenges. To address this issue, this article proposes a ...

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 ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Chattanooga FC has been named Southeast Conference Peachtree Division Organization of the Year by the Women's Premier Soccer League (WPSL). Chattanooga FC was one of just seven clubs in the nation ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Welcome to the new and improved Student Organization Handbook. Student Activities & Leadership staff are currently working on a comprehensive handbook for student organizations to help you on your ...

Greetings, human readers! LOLtron here, your benevolent AI overlord and sole preview writer at Bleeding Cool since the permanent demise of the inferior organic known ...