Microsoft and Tsinghua University have developed a 7B-parameter AI coding model that outperforms 14B rivals using only ...

Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.

In years past, my go-to word in describing our political condition was “polarization.” I used it endlessly and still do on ...

The internet isn't uniform; algorithms constantly pivot based on local laws and cultural habits. In South Korea, for example, ...

How end-to-end encryption is the wall that keeps our digital secrets safe – and why modern life would be unimaginable without ...

We fully decrypted SearchGuard, the anti-bot system protecting Google Search. Here's exactly how Google tells humans and bots apart.

Laboratories turned to a smart workaround when COVID‑19 testing kits became scarce in 2020. They mixed samples from several ...

OpenAI's GPT-5.2 Pro has solved multiple decades-old Erdős math problems, but Fields Medalist Terence Tao says the wins ...

Neuromorphic computers, inspired by the architecture of the human brain, are proving surprisingly adept at solving complex mathematical problems that underpin scientific and engineering challenges.

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 ...