What role did Alan Turing play in World War II? Are the Turing Machine and the Turing Test the same thing? Machine learning and AI would not have become what they are today without the theoretical and ...

This season, local theaters are offering a collection of stories that highlight important historical figures, reimagine old ...

Used during WWII to encrypt messages, the Enigma Machine has a fascinating history and unique workings. This animation delves into its mechanisms and significance. Further topics explored include: - ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

Meta is getting rid of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Instagram's DMs. There's no second guessing there. However, the story behind why Meta is going through with the change is a lot more complicated ...

Researchers are warning about the risks posed by a low-cost device that can give insiders and hackers unusually broad powers ...

Pulling the plug on privacy?

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.

Will the reality live up to the hype? by Jonathan Ruane, Andrew McAfee and William D. Oliver In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor introduced a quantum-computing algorithm that could reduce the time it ...