This guide is designed to explain what an algorithm is and how they are used. In the ever-evolving and vast landscape of technology, the term “algorithm” consistently stands out as a key idea that ...

Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company's vast ...

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For a while researchers thought they’d have to make do with noisy, error-prone systems, at least in the near term. That’s starting to change. In the past 20 years, hundreds of companies, including ...

A basic feature of number theory, prime numbers are also a fundamental building block of computer science, from hashtables to cryptography. Everyone knows that a prime number is one that cannot be ...

Quantum computing has gone through two boom-and-bust cycles in the past year. The first started in late 2024, then burst in ...

Alphabet, Microsoft, and Nvidia are all funding their quantum computing endeavors with cash flows from unrelated businesses, ...

There’s a lurking fear in cryptocurrency communities about quantum computing. Could it break cryptocurrencies and the encryption that protects them? How close might that be? Do the headlines around ...