The Cost of Curiosity Before the internet became an affordable, omnipresent utility in India, its meaning to the average citizen, those who were not particularly “tech-savvy”, was charmingly limited.

Beneath the screen, algorithms anticipate our pauses and swipes with ‘dark poetry written in code’. The solution is not more ...

Independent computer analysts are on high alert. With the spread of artificial intelligence, the risks to our privacy are ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

Abstract: With the rapid development of Natural Language Processing technology and the growing demand for efficient information retrieval in the computer field, query optimization tasks have become an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...

Access to high school computer science courses has plateaued, and overall high school student participation in those classes has declined slightly, concludes Code.org’s annual report on the state of ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they start with zero prior knowledge. In the study, participants using ...

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 ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...