Some experts believe that the pursuit is misguided, because no computer could ever be unhackable. Juan Gilbert was undeterred. This article was originally published on Undark. Read the original ...

AI is making its way into decision-making in battle. Who’s to blame when something goes wrong? In a near-future war—one that might begin tomorrow, for all we know—a soldier takes up a shooting ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

In an age when you can get just about anything online, it’s probably no surprise that you can buy a diamond-making machine for $200,000 on Chinese eCommerce site Alibaba. If, like me, you haven’t been ...

In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing ...

Two teams have shown how quantum approaches can solve problems faster than classical computers, bringing physics and computer science closer together. For Valeria Saggio to boot up the computer in her ...