One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Drawing a computer is a practical exercise that helps you understand basic shapes, proportions, and straight lines. Whether you want to sketch a desktop computer for a school project or practise your ...

Heidi Klum, Kevin Hart and Danny Ramirez will co-host, with Andrea Bocelli, Robbie Williams, Nicole Scherzinger and the Village People all performing live. Global icons Heidi Klum and Kevin Hart to co ...

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.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Nvidia's Titan graphics cards were an industry-lauded lineup that any PC gamer would be thrilled to have running alongside their CPU and other peripherals. Once hailed for extreme power and ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

The GTX line of video cards from Nvidia featured some of the most popular graphics cards of all time. The GTX 1080 and GTX 1080 Ti are considered two of the greatest video cards of all time. Even ...

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 ...

Children often surprise us with their natural problem-solving skills. A new study shows that they can discover efficient algorithms on their own. Researchers Huiwen Alex Yang, Bill D. Thompson, and ...