Computer science has been one of the hottest college majors for 15 years. Enrollment data suddenly shows a big drop.

Something amazing keeps happening somewhere in a lab in New York, inside a device that resembles a science fiction set chandelier more than a computer. Gold-plated wiring coils downward into nested ...

In August 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology did something it had been working toward for eight years: ...

One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

Google quantum pioneer says encryption-breaking use cases may arrive sooner than expected, urging crypto industry to prepare now ...

Harvard researchers have launched the Differential Privacy Deployments Registry, a public database that catalogs real-world uses of differential privacy by companies and agencies to better protect ...

Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...

With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...

What if, no matter how strong your password was, a hacker could crack it just as easily as you can type it? In fact, what if ...

Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...

When Apple discovers trending popular emojis, or when Google reports traffic at a busy restaurant, they're analyzing large ...