Noted Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir (the "S" in RSA Security and the middle one in the picture at right) has made an obvious, but nonetheless important ...

What would the world look like if we changed the value of pi? Whether in the real world or a game environment, the answer is complex ...

Researchers at ETH Zurich have succeeded, for the first time, in quickly and continuously correcting errors in digital quantum systems. This means they have overcome an important hurdle on the road to ...

A general rule in data processing is that disturbances cause the distortion or deletion of information during data storage or transfer. Methods for conventional computers were developed that ...

OLYMPIA – A programming error in the computer that calculates when prisoners should be released allowed some 3,200 inmates out early over the last 13 years, state ...

When I started working for General Electric in 1980, my first assignment was to modify the operating system on one of their flight-control computers to support some additional I/O functions. But first ...

MaineHealth says a computer error caused letters to be sent to more than 500 patients incorrectly stating they were dead.

NIST, the US’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, has announced a new record for accuracy in quantum computing, albeit for just a single qubit. The ...

Philip Ball dives into the challenges in developing quantum computing, and building up investments and users for the tech ...