One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

We’re racing towards a future in which devices will be able to read our thoughts. You see signs of it everywhere, from brain-computer interfaces to algorithms that detect emotions from facial scans.

Nvidia's Titan graphics cards were an industry-lauded lineup that any PC gamer would be thrilled to have running alongside their CPU and other peripherals. Once hailed for extreme power and ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. 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 ...

Though I shall completely ignore my own advice and pester Intel constantly until we get it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add ...

A TikTok deal could be announced this week, according to White House officials. New details have emerged that suggest several new and old investors, including Oracle and private-equity firm Silver ...

Procedural generation has a long history of doing so much with so little. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Anyone who is ...