One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

A medical, humanitarian, transhumanist and politically neutral project: This is how Neuralink has described itself since it ...

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 20 million deaths each year. Rapid ...

Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...

In the 1970s, some basic ideas in supposedly useless number theory were deployed by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman. They developed the RSA algorithm, which enables public key cryptography, ...

When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

Understanding how a crack grows in metal requires simultaneously calculating the behavior of hundreds of billions of atoms: ...

Cerf’s February 2026 Communications Cerf’s Up column, “Does AI Now Represent a Paradigm Shift?” rightly characterizes modern ...

To take humans back to the Moon, NASA has engineered a "fail-silent" architecture that handles everything from cosmic-ray bit ...

An international team of scientists proved the never-before-seen molecule's exotic nature using a quantum computer, ...

Fujitsu quantum researcher Shinji Kikuchi discusses the quantum computing paradigm shift expected around 2030, as well as how ...