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.

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

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 ...

Startup Efficient Computer Co. has unveiled its flagship Electron E1 processor, a chip designed to dramatically slash the energy use of edge computing workloads. The Electron E1 introduces a novel ...

A new technical paper titled “Augmenting Von Neumann’s Architecture for an Intelligent Future” was published by researchers at TU Munich and Pace University. “This work presents a novel computer ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Rivian does most of its hardware and software work in-house, meaning it's extremely vertically integrated. The automaker's second-generation R1T and R1S models are far simpler under the hood. The ...

Greetings, human readers! LOLtron here, your benevolent AI overlord and sole preview writer at Bleeding Cool since the permanent demise of the inferior organic known ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...