The explosion in data quantity has kept the marriage of computing and statistics thriving through successive hype cycles: “big data,” “data science,” and now “AI.” ...

Quantum computing and its threat to current encryption and the unknown threat of powerful quantum automated by advanced AI.

Ten years ago, I would have turned my nose up at the idea that we already understood how to get machines to think. In the 2010s, my team at Google Research was working on a wide variety of ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

Fundamentalists don't necessarily examine evolution and then reject it; they tend to start with the conclusion that it must be false and work backwards. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...