New research from the University of Waterloo is making inroads on one of the biggest problems in theoretical computer science ...

The technology that has helped propel the simulation theory may be new, but the questions it explores are ancient.

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For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum ...

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Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

While former President Barack Obama sometimes invoked Article II executive power in controversial ways, those moves are nowhere near the level of President Donald Trump's raw assertion of presidential ...

Whitehall’s ability to adopt artificial intelligence (AI) technology risks being hamstrung by the government’s reliance on an unknown amount of legacy IT, according to the output of two separate House ...