Sylvano Alvarez earned a full scholarship to law school after career in Bay Area tech, now serves Northern Virginia's ...

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Bitcoin is running out of time to adopt post-quantum cryptography. Upgrading too early or too late could have disastrous consequences. Faster-than-anticipated development of quantum computers is a ...

To help fight breast cancer, a public-health expert recruited the spies whose top-secret work helped find hidden Russian ...

Neuromorphic computers modeled after the human brain can now solve the complex equations behind physics simulations — something once thought possible only with energy-hungry supercomputers. The ...

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A leading exec at the public broadcasting institution breaks down the impact of recent government cuts and what to do about ...

Plasma -- the electrically charged fourth state of matter -- is at the heart of many important industrial processes, including those used to make computer chips and coat materials. Simulating those ...

Just a few years ago, many researchers in quantum computing thought it would take several decades to develop machines that ...

John Martinis has already revolutionised quantum computing twice. Now, he is working on another radical rethink of the technology that could deliver machines with unrivalled capabilities ...