Two research groups say they have significantly reduced the amount of qubits and time required to crack common online ...

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 ...

Traditional encryption methods have long been vulnerable to quantum computers, but two new analyses suggest a capable enough ...

But cryptocurrencies aren't the only application at risk.

We use algorithms every day for things like image searches, predictive text, and securing sensitive data. Algorithms show up ...

Visualising the hidden structures beneath our feet requires vast seismic datasets, advanced imaging algorithms and deep ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

Tor has announced improved encryption and security for the circuit traffic by replacing the old tor1 relay encryption algorithm with a new design called Counter Galois Onion (CGO). One reason behind ...

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.

Descriptive set theorists study the niche mathematics of infinity. Now, they’ve shown that their problems can be rewritten in the concrete language of algorithms. All of modern mathematics is built on ...