Tao: Today there are a lot of very tedious types of mathematics that we don’t like doing, so we look for clever ways to get ...

Low-precision number formats don’t suit many simulations ...

The Bitcoin network took its first step towards quantum-computing resistance with the addition of BIP 360 to its repository.

Sam Fender, Olivia Dean and Lola Young are among the artists we're expecting big things from at this year's ceremony. As always, the Brits recognises the biggest achievements in music over the last 12 ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than 1s and 0s. The startup’s chips work in a fundamentally different way than chips from Nvidia, AMD ...

After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture. It’s not that anyone ever said ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1994, an earthquake of a proof shook up the mathematical world. The mathematician Andrew Wiles had finally settled Fermat’s Last ...