Quanta Magazine

To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past

Imagine you visit a maze with some friends. You emerge from the exit shortly after going in, and wait around for hours before your friends emerge. Naturally, they ask about the path you took — surely ...
Live Science

'Absurdly fast' algorithm solves 70-year-old logjam — speeding up network traffic in areas from airline scheduling to the internet

Network slowdowns could soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a superfast new algorithm. The breakthrough offers a dramatically faster solution to a problem that has been plaguing computer scientists ...

Racing the quantum clock: ML-DSA faces real-world tests

Post-quantum cryptography is here, and ML-DSA is leading the way. Experts from IBM and Qualcomm explain what’s at stake for ...
Wired

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...
New University

Overconsumption: The illusion of personal style in an algorithm driven world

What we often mistake for personal style is in fact the product of digital repetition and influence, revealing not only ...
The Verge

Pluto TV pits human curation against streaming algorithms in new ad campaign

Pluto TV thinks its human curators do a better job picking out what you want to watch. Pluto TV thinks its human curators do a better job picking out what you want to watch. is a news writer who ...