Deep within the source code of this online multiplayer game lies an enigmatic number that puzzles and inspires experts to this day ...

Computers are objective, uncaring, inanimate objects using input and variable to spit out output, stats, and projections. The Player Empirical Comparison and Optimization Test Algorithm (PECOTA) ...

The Trailblazers and Knights have been the No. 1 teams in the Southland since the start of the season but face formidable ...

Area basketball coaches have concerns about the CIF-Southern Section's computer rankings system for playoff seedings ahead of bracket release.

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.

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

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 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 ...

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