A recent, yet to be proven paper claiming to have found a way to "destroy the RSA cryptosystem" has cryptographers asking what might replace it. What if a big crack appeared overnight in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. On a spring afternoon in 2014, Brisha Borden was running late to pick up her ...

The most dramatic advances in human development over the past century can be summed up in two words: “if” and “then.” With only slight oversimplification, all marketing can be translated into if/then ...

Some dating app users say manipulative algorithms suppress the good matches. When tech companies run romance, the truth is hard to grasp. Reading time 12 minutes Last year, a friend came to me with a ...

A new algorithm developed by scientists at UCLA may bring us as close to fortune telling as we'll ever get. The computation is able to predict life expectancy of heart failure patients, and can tell ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. With the app facing another potential ban from the US, what would divesting it from ByteDance look like? And just ...

I was halfway through a master’s in Computer Science when my vision changed. I was working as a data scientist during my summer off from school, and I had friends who said things like “I’m at a local ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you’ve been making the same commute for a long time, you’ve probably settled on what seems like the best route. But “best” is a ...