McGill and Queen's University researchers have built an improved version of a computer that uses light to solve extremely hard problems more quickly ...

Keeping high-power particle accelerators at peak performance requires advanced and precise control systems. For example, the primary research machine at the U.S. Department of Energy's Thomas ...

Lance Fortnow on the current status and future outlook of solving the P-NP problem.

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A new technique from Stanford, Nvidia, and Together AI lets models learn during inference rather than relying on static ...

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New Orleans Pelicans fans got what they wanted on Saturday when the team announced the firing of Willie Green. James Borrego has taken over as the head coach, and the hope is that there will be a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by Russian programmer Alexey ...