One computer can't solve the puzzle better than another - it can only make more guesses faster. You can even mine bitcoin with pencil and paper by manually calculating SHA-256 hashes.

Learning to code enhances students' problem-solving, logical thinking, and creativity across subjects, preparing them for future academic and career success. Integrating coding into education ...

Need to solve a problem? You might want to sleep on it—for about 20 minutes. New research suggests that taking a quick, deep ...

They'd be cracking most online-security systems, revolutionizing science and even, in effect, solving the other six of the so-called Millennium Problems, all of which were chosen in the year 2000.

To grasp what the authors are doing, it's necessary to know a little bit about the P = NP problem. Formulated independently in the 1970s by computer scientists Stephen Cook and Leonid Levin, the P ...

So, now you have to manage 20,000 databases, and to do that you need some sort of automation, otherwise you need to double your DBA population, and DBAs are hard to find to hire.

Advances in quantum computing are bringing us closer to a world where new types of computers may solve problems in minutes that would take today's supercomputers millions of years.

A team of quantum computer researchers at quantum computer maker D-Wave, working with an international team of physicists and engineers, is claiming that its latest quantum processor has been used ...