We’re used to algorithms guiding our choices. When machines can effortlessly generate the content we consume, though, what’s left for the human imagination?

Issuers tack it on so that the whole card number will satisfy a specific mathematical test—the Luhn algorithm. Here’s how the algorithm works: Write out all but the last digit of the card number.

To build a large-scale quantum computer that works, scientists and engineers need to overcome the spontaneous errors that quantum bits, or qubits, create as they operate.

Researchers at Skoltech have presented new generalized LDPC codes (Generalized Low-Density Parity-Check Codes, GLDPC)—a ...

It’s been enthusiastically adopted by the ruling party and lambasted by the opposition, no matter who those titles belonged ...

Ada Lovelace, daughter of the famous poet Lord Byron, is considered the world's first computer programmer.

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