It's one thing when your computer starts exhibiting annoying problems like slowdown or lockdowns, but it's another matter entirely when those problems reach borderline supernatural status. Most ...

When the Clay Mathematics Institute put individual $1-million prize bounties on seven unsolved mathematical problems, they may have undervalued one entry—by a lot. If mathematicians were to resolve, ...

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. – A small Microsoft Research team had lofty goals when it set out four years ago to create an analog optical computer that would use light as a medium for solving complex problems.

A mathematician was keen to forecast the evolution of the COVID epidemic. Instead, he ended up solving a problem which had troubled computer scientists for decades. During the corona epidemic many of ...

In his book PC Annoyances Steve Bass, contributing editor of PC World magazine, gives solutions to every PC gripe and gremlin and offers valuable advice to fix everything from Windows glitches to ...

D-Wave Quantum Inc., a California-based startup working in the realm of quantum computing for commercial applications, has ...

One of the oldest problems in computer science was just solved by a single cell. A group of researchers from Tokyo’s Keio University set out to use an amoeba to solve the Traveling Salesman Problem, a ...

ALBANY -- Some students taking multiple-choice exams on computers had all the possible answers show up as "system error." Other schools couldn't log into the exams at ...