The atmospheric opening to 2001: A Space Odyssey depicts earth, the moon and the sun slowly aligning against a pitch-black canvas. One of the most famous introductions in cinema, the scene is scored ...

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey wasn’t just another sci-fi movie - it redefined what cinema could be. Released in 1968 to puzzled critics and awe-struck audiences, the film blended hard ...

From powering search engines to securing data and optimizing networks, algorithms underpin nearly every aspect of modern technology. Understanding how efficiently they can solve problems — and where ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Google said it has developed a computer algorithm that points the way to practical applications for quantum computing and will be able to generate unique data for use ...

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 ...

From 2001: A Space Odyssey to The Jetsons, Hollywood has long misread America’s tech future. The real AI story will be written by innovators—not screenwriters. Here is some good news: Hollywood and ...

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 ...

As hopes and fears for AI applications mount, can efforts succeed to keep this transformational technology from serving both? Fears were nudged last month when Open AI, parent of popular Chat GPT, ...

The Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) is perhaps most recognizable as the home of Spacewar!, one of the world's first video games, but as the video above proves, it also works as an enormous and ...

In this paper an attempt is made to explore the logical foundations of computer programming by use of techniques which were first applied in the study of geometry and have later been extended to other ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...

This article will introduce the concepts and topics common to all programming languages that beginners and experts must know! Do you want to learn a programming language for the first time? Do you ...