Utimaco CTO Nils Gerhardt outlines the threat quantum computing poses to current methods of encryption, and suggests how cybersecurity can get ahead of the game. The US National Institute of Standards ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

Computer algorithms have designed highly efficient synthetic enzymes from scratch, with minimal need for tedious hands-on experiments to perfect them. The resulting enzymes catalyse a chemical ...

The world of medicine is shifting. Artificial intelligence is helping identify potential drug molecules faster and cheaper than before. But can it fully replace the work of scientists? Experts say: No ...

The polarising impact of social media isn’t just the result of bad algorithms – it is inevitable because of the core components of how the platforms work, a study with AI-generated users has found. It ...

Opinion: algorithms increasingly rule our world, but most of us are not sufficiently trained or knowledgeable to know about how they work The row over calculated grades errors for the Leaving Cert ...

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