When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because ...

They say a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, but for computer scientists, two birds in a hole are better still. That’s because those cohabiting birds are the protagonists of a deceptively ...

ABSTRACT: We establish quantum circuit complexity as a fundamental physical observable and prove that it satisfies an uncertainty relation with energy, analogous to Heisenberg’s canonical uncertainty ...

A tiling window manager can be a wonder of productivity and efficiency. Click to open an app, and the window manager will place that app in the best possible location on your desktop. Say you click ...

Morgan Wallen is moving full steam ahead to his next musical project. After releasing his One Thing at a Time album in 2023 and touring to promote the album over the last two years, the country singer ...

If you want to accentuate the importance of a problem, it seems sensible to explain how prevalent it is. Lots of people are at risk of Alzheimer’s disease. Lots of women carry a gene that makes them ...

The cloud computing giant has finally realized it must deal with complexity, by adopting a six-step framework it calls ‘simplexity.’ It doesn’t scale. At AWS re:Invent 2024, Amazon Web Services ...

Window Tiling on the Mac has gotten much better since MacOS Sequoia, and it’s now easier than ever to arrange and tile windows on your screen. With Window Tiling, you can split windows, send windows ...