Students haven't lost the ability to work through confusion, but they've developed an automatic reflex to avoid it. Remove the escape hatch, and the ability returns within minutes.

I studied computer science at University College Dublin, where the four-year course covered a broad range of topics. We ...

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If you ask me, playing solo in Arc Raiders means you're likely to have a pretty friendly experience. I've been playing since day one and while the general meta seems to have shifted to be a little ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Satoshi’s 1.1-million-BTC wallet is increasingly viewed as a potential quantum vulnerability as researchers assess how advancing computing power could affect early Bitcoin addresses. Satoshi ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

Bot Auto successfully completed the first fully unmanned, autonomous hub-to-hub truck run in Houston, Texas, marking a significant milestone in autonomous trucking. This achievement followed rigorous ...

Do you remember the early days of social media? The promise of connection, of democratic empowerment, of barriers crumbling and gates opening? In those heady days, the co-founder of Twitter said that ...