When is a billiard ball not a billiard ball? When mathematicians get involved and view a popular game as a model computer. When you send a ball across a table and it hits the sides, it follows simple ...

I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

Practically all modern computers, from the cheap microcontroller in your dishwasher to high-tech hardware crunching numbers for artificial intelligence systems, rely on versions of the same technology ...

MKU's Anti-Drone Net is intended to neutralise aerial threats by entangling the propellers, airframe, and control surfaces of UAVs. (MKU Limited) Indian defence firm MKU has developed Anti-Drone Net, ...

To this day, we have yet to see a quantum computer conclusively perform a single useful task. Existing machines are simply too small and error-ridden to solve commercially relevant problems. That hasn ...

One of those '80s sci-fi movies you've probably never watched, Disney's "The Last Starfighter" is perhaps not best known for the storyline. One of the first movies to use computer generated imagery ...

Quantum computers have the potential to transform science, accelerating breakthroughs in drug development, cosmology, materials science, nuclear physics, and more. To make this future a reality, ...

Science fiction has long imagined a world where our brains interact with machines to restore and augment our abilities — think of the neural implants that connected to Geordi La Forge’s visor in Star ...

Sci-Hub, a pirate website that illegally hosts tens of millions of scientific papers, has launched an artificial intelligence–based chatbot that mines the database and answers questions based on what ...

Prof. Victoria Wambui Ngumi, Vice Chancellor JKUAT (Fourth left) and Dr Martin Kimemia, Vice Chancellor of Mount Kigali University(Fourth Right), display a document after signing an MOU on academic ...

The Class of 2028 gathered Friday afternoon on Cannon Green to celebrate officially declaring their majors. Hundreds of students took part in the event, which featured orange and black departmental ...