On September 19, 1982, Carnegie Mellon University computer science research assistant professor Scott Fahlman posted a message to the university’s bulletin board software that would later come to ...

Quantinuum, the $10 billion firm that’s become one of the biggest players in quantum computing, unveiled its latest computer Wednesday. The Helios machine represents an important leap in terms of ...

The best stock market timing system of four decades ago is still beating a buy-and-hold approach. That’s remarkable for at least two reasons: First, it’s rare for any market timing system to ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

See the world through the lens of science. Sign up for our free, daily newsletter Today in Science. As a child of the 1990s, I couldn’t avoid the game-turned-best-seller Tetris. Launched in 1984 by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This story is a collaboration between Injustice Watch and the Chicago Tribune. In a flurry of contracts inked a decade ago, some of Illinois’ most powerful ...

The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest ...

What if you’ve already seen fragments of the future - without realizing it? In this thought experiment grounded in Einstein’s relativity, we unpack how a simple diagram changes our entire ...

Dhruv Bhutani has been writing about consumer technology since 2008, offering deep insights into the Android smartphone landscape through features and opinion pieces. He joined Android Police in 2023, ...

Not only do we almost all agree about what a better food system should look like, but we also know most of what it will take to make it a reality. Food is such a big topic that few really grasp the ...