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.

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 ...

Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

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 ...

Abstract: On the premise of solving the problem in a specific situation, this paper aims at the laser marking machine to design and optimize the outline extraction of the two-dimensional composite ...

The number in each polygon with n sides is the sum of the first n prime numbers’ values. The following applies to the decagon: We’d love to hear from you! E-mail us at games@sciam.com to share your ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Regrid, a Detroit-based provider of nationwide land parcel data solutions, has launched its Roadway ROW Polygon Data, the first nationwide planning-grade dataset to deliver polygonal insights into ...