The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Abstract: Clustering analysis has been widely applied in various fields, and boundary detection based clustering algorithms have shown effective performance. In this work, we propose a clustering ...

UPDATE: Around 3 p.m. Friday, a Stop & Shop spokeswoman said their pharmacy computer issue had been resolved and was functioning normally. Stop & Shop pharmacy operations have been hampered by an ...

In a groundbreaking development, Chinese researchers have reportedly used a D-Wave quantum computer to crack encryption algorithms once thought unbreakable. The breakthrough raises concerns over the ...

We all thought banking and military security was impenetrable? That was, until Chinese researchers used a D-Wave quantum computer to execute what they claim as the first successful quantum attack on ...

As a teenager in the Czech Republic, Lenka Zdeborová glimpsed her future in an Isaac Asimov novel. A character in Asimov’s “Foundation” series invents a mathematical method for predicting the path of ...

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning algorithms is helping to accelerate brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Published in this month’s Nature Neuroscience is new research that shows ...

Researchers led by Maryam Shanechi at the USC Center for Neurotechnology have revealed an AI algorithm that could change the way we understand our brain activity and its applications in medical ...

Abstract: One of the most important and useful ideas in 2D computer graphics is the fill. Simple in concept but powerful in practice, filling is so basic a technique that there's a fill tool in just ...

This month, Harvey Public Library District approved a new hire to lead the information technology division as the short-term roles become increasingly common. The individual was not named during the ...

In politics, “fair” means advantageous to the group that screams the loudest. A perfect example of this is the June 23 opinion piece, “Redistricting must be fair for Black voters.” The writer is not ...