Photo: Mathew Anderson and Adam Savage at SXSW 2025 game industry conference track. When the team asked me to contribute to their Photo of the Year series, I wanted to showcase a scene that would help ...

Editor's note: This story has been updated to clarify that Epstein's abuse affected underage girls. A newly released batch of images shows the rich and powerful people with whom convicted sex offender ...

Let me share my simple tips and hacks for keeping your digital life organized! In the spirit of spring cleaning, we'll discuss how to organize computer files, how to organize smartphones, photo ...

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.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Imagine appearing for a job interview and, without saying a single word, being told that you are not getting the role because your face didn’t fit. You would assume discrimination, and might even ...

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

Renowned street and portrait photographer Alan Schaller has created a new social media app called Irys, designed to create a calmer, ad-free alternative to algorithm-driven, engagement-focused photo ...

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 ...

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