Computing

Then it played Super Mario Bros.

If you understand how these systems operate, then you understand why they could change everything.

The algorithm hides sensitive information in a sea of decoys

Scientists achieved a record level of visual detail with an imaging technique that could help develop future electronics and better batteries

An online animal catalogue lets you decode communications and other behaviors for everyone’s favorite pachyderm

One year after supercomputers worked together to fight COVID, it’s time to broaden the partnership to prepare for other crises

The double helix can archive a staggering amount of information in an almost inconceivably small volume

Ransomware is steadily hitting harder. Could banks or subway systems be next?

Machine-learning algorithms can quickly process thousands of hours of natural soundscapes

In the centuries before envelopes, “letterlocking” secured a message’s information

The experiment connects three devices with entangled photons, demonstrating a key technique that could enable a future quantum Internet

The give-and-take of formal arguments is still outside of a machine’s “comfort zone”—at least for now