Quantum computing is advancing quickly and is raising new questions about the long-term security of blockchain systems.

You can fix your Spotify algorithm in under five minutes. Here is how. The algorithm learns from your interaction with the ...

Divisions within the US population on social and political issues have increased by 64% since 1988, with almost all this coming after 2008, according to a study tracking polarization from the end of ...

Connecticut’s legislative session opens Wednesday, giving lawmakers just 13 weeks to address the state’s issues. Here’s some ...

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.

Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop. If you buy something from a Verge link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ...

Johns Hopkins applied mathematicians and astronomers have developed a new method to render images from ground-based telescopes as clear as those taken from space, a process that stands to expand the ...

The White House has answered what had been one of the major outstanding questions regarding its pending deal to transfer TikTok’s US operations to a majority American ownership group: Under the ...

The Gilded Age is the new staple for period drama fans. The drama, created by Julian Fellowes, known for his work in another popular period drama, Downton Abbey, premiered in 2022 and brought about ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.