Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose diseases, to name ...

Last summer, three researchers took a small step toward answering one of the most important questions in theoretical computer science. To paraphrase Avi Wigderson of the Institute for Advanced Study, ...

IBM and University of Chicago researchers have completed a quantum computation that leading classical methods could not ...

If you're having trouble updating your computer, it may not be a problem with the software. Your hardware could be going bad. Q: I’ve spent more than 8 hours trying ...

Marissa Giustina, a researcher with Google’s quantum computer lab, draws a diagram showing “quantum supremacy” as only an early step on a path of quantum computer progress. After years of development, ...

A software bug in a program running in an air traffic control computer grounded all flights across Japan on Saturday morning. The computer, which handles the distribution of flight information to ...

Physicists have invented a new type of analog quantum computer that can tackle hard physics problems that the most powerful digital supercomputers cannot solve. New research published in Nature ...