Pollan, a science writer, spent five years trying to understand how consciousness worked. The more he learned, the weirder ...

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For weeks, they’d been having furtive discussions about whether Sam Altman, OpenAI’s C.E.O., and Greg Brockman, his second-in ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

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Will the reality live up to the hype? by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it ...

Many of us have a box of old gadgets, random cables, and used batteries gathering dust in the attic. While clearing this out might sound like a chore, it could land with you with a tidy profit.

Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare, known as Tony to friends, has died at the age of 92. One of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing, he invented the Quicksort algorithm ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

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Returning to England in 1960, he joined the computer firm Elliott Brothers, where one of his first tasks was to write an algorithm for a sorting method known as a “shell sort”. The story goes that he ...