The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Google DeepMind, Google LLC’s artificial intelligence research unit, today unveiled two new AI models that are capable of advanced mathematical reasoning for solving complex math problems, which ...

Quantum computing is still in its infancy, yet the people paid to protect the world’s data are already treating it as a live ...

Quantum computing is slowly entering the mainstream, as more people discuss the technology and its potential within ...

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them ...

Imagine streaming an entire 100 Gigabyte 4K movie over a basic text message. Not just a link to where your device can find the movie...but the entire movie embedded INTO THE TEXT. No WiFi or broadband ...

John von Neumann came about as close as humanly possible to embodying the Platonic ideal of a genius. Conversant in ancient Greek by age 6, the Hungarian made significant mathematical advances in his ...

The arrival of Google’s quantum chip, Willow, presents excellent opportunities, and a serious threat to the technology industry. Almost everything that uses cryptography, from identity-based services ...

Last week I summarized takeaways from my visit to SXSW earlier this month. As I mentioned in that article, the most hyped technology at the event was quantum computing. I found this to be quite ...

A century ago, a group of scientists in Europe began developing a theory to explain how the world’s smallest particles interact. Their discoveries underpinned a new branch of physics and laid the ...