Solving complex optimization problems is central to many modern technologies, from logistics and financial modeling to chip ...

The FIFA World Cup has seen 'Paul the Octopus' - the famous eight-limbed soothsayer. In this age of AI and machine learning, predicting a World Cup winner has become more refined. Take, for example, ...

A deterministic proof seems within reach, until composite numbers start masquerading as primes. This video traces how Fermat's theorem becomes a probabilistic algorithm, and why embracing uncertainty ...

In writing, artificial intelligence is so powerful nowadays that it can optimize phrasing, build worlds and calculate logic, but it lacks the one thing that makes art legendary: the unique life ...

KAWASAKI, Japan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Toshiba Corporation has developed a breakthrough algorithm that dramatically boosts the performance of the Simulated Bifurcation Machine (SBM), its proprietary ...

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.

A few years back, Google made waves when it claimed that some of its hardware had achieved quantum supremacy, performing operations that would be effectively impossible to simulate on a classical ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

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Quantum-inspired algorithms can simulate turbulent fluid flows on a classical computer much faster than existing tools, slashing computation times from several days on a large supercomputer to just ...