After a multi-year competition, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) selected a suite of algorithms for standardization. For key exchange, the primary choice is the ...

Those that solve artificially simplified problems where quantum advantage is meaningless. Those that provide no genuine quantum advantage when all costs are properly accounted for. This critique is ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

Allowing for “consensus choice” would improve ranked-choice voting in the commonwealth, Better Choices for Democracy’s Carah Ong Whaley writes.

YouTube’s recommendation engine failed on February 17, 2026, stranding hundreds of thousands of users on blank, unresponsive ...

Earlier this week, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) began its federally required point-in-time (PIT) count — an annual estimate of how many people are unhoused in the county.

Texas Republicans in two counties who were pushing to count ballots by hand in their March primaries are abandoning their plans, citing logistical concerns. The Dallas County Republican Party said it ...

University of Missouri scientists are testing out a new way to count waterfowl — using drones and artificial intelligence. The Missouri Department of Conservation does weekly surveys of waterfowl to ...

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 ...

The combine harvester is a widely used piece of agricultural equipment in modern agriculture, and the seed loss rate is one of the important indexes used to measure its operational performance, so the ...

Power electronic systems include many fragile elements, with power devices being the most prone to failure. Cycle counting algorithms are essential to evaluate power devices degradation and system ...

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 the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.