In November 1989, two watershed events changed the course of world history. The fall of the Berlin Wall would end the Cold ...

In 2016, an AI program he developed at Google DeepMind, AlphaGo, taught itself to play the famously difficult game of Go with ...

Adrian Woolfson discusses "artivolution," the future of engineered species, and the implications for humanity and nature.

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a16z's Erik Torenberg makes a sweeping argument, but he also challenges you to consider that what you think of "real life" ...

West Windsor-based artist Andrew Werth in his studio. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Werth) By Thomas Kelly. Andrew Werth is a ...

Theoretical ideas have a real-life impact,” said Michael Oser Rabin in a 2009 interview, 1 and he spent nearly seven decades ...

A blue plaque on the wall of a former Maida Vale nursing home marks the birthplace of a legendary Second World War Two codebreaker and computing pioneer. Alan Turing was born to Ethel Sara Turing at ...

Years ago, I read a wonderful science fiction short story by Herbert Goldstone, written in 1953 — the year is important — ...

Diffie-Hellman’s key-exchange method runs this kind of exponentiation protocol, with all the operations conducted in this way using a large prime number in the mod operation. Here’s how it works: ...

Brandon Patterson has been through a lot in the nine years since rolling a Jeep left him paralyzed. Now he's on the leading edge of science. Patterson, 41, had a brain-computer interface implanted in ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Built around the beginning of the 1st century BCE, the Antikythera Mechanism is the oldest known analog computer in human history, and there’s an ...