Quantum hardware and software are advancing rapidly – and our online encryption systems need to change to stay ahead.

Pioneering computer scientist who devised the Quicksort algorithm, ways of verifying programs and guards against hackers ...

The world of quantum computing is a noisy place, where error correction is needed to ensure quantum devices run correctly ...

ANNE CONNOLLY, REPORTER: When Katherine and Natalie Taylor sit down together, it looks like any mother-daughter catch up but Katherine has vascular dementia and the disease is advancing. NATALIE ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tim Bajarin covers the tech industry’s impact on PC and CE markets. Two years ago, I spent about six months in deep discussions ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...

In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends their usefulness in her latest work, although she also recognizes the ...