Current discourse predominantly focuses on the detrimental effects of artificial intelligence (AI), with relatively little attention given to its potential advantages. Today, I am introducing ...

The Internet has spoiled us. You assume network packets either show up pretty quickly or they are never going to show up.

After a difficult year for launch newcomers, 2026 is turning into the year that more than a half-dozen companies aim to show they can emulate the SpaceX model of turning early setbacks into orbital ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Residents may want to set the shovels aside and grab their umbrellas, as a wet and windy Friday morning is expected, with the worst conditions coinciding with the early morning ...

Wintry weather is sweeping across parts of the United States this weekend, bringing with it brutally low temperatures. Nearly 49 million people from the northern Plains through the Southeast are under ...

CAMBRIDGE, England & LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nu Quantum, the category creator and leader in distributed quantum computing, has closed its oversubscribed $60 million Series A funding round led by ...

New investors, including National Grid Partners, Gresham House Ventures and Morpheus Ventures, validate growing demand for modular, scaling networking technologies within quantum computing. The ...

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.

When Edsger W. Dijkstra published his algorithm in 1959, computer networks were barely a thing. The algorithm in question found the shortest path between any two nodes on a graph, with a variant ...

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...