While technology leaders and sci-fi writers envision a “technological singularity”—a threshold where artificial ...
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...
IF YOU’VE always wanted to have a quantum computer, what are you waiting for? You can already use your PC to harness the quantum world and do things no normal computer can manage. OK, we’re not ...