You’ve heard of qubits, now get ready for p-bits! These units form the building blocks of probabilistic computers that can solve certain problems ...

A year ago, I’ve design reviewed an MCU module for CAN hacking, called TinySparrow. Modules are plenty cool, and even more so when they’re intended for remaking car ECUs. For a while ...

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

Nearly 250 cashpoints have been closed in Norfolk since 2019 The number of cash machines in Norfolk has fallen by almost a third, according to a report looking into concerns about access to money. The ...

Valve has formally introduced the Steam Machine as part of its upcoming Steam Hardware lineup, confirming an early-2026 release window. The device sits alongside the new Steam Controller and Steam ...

Tech companies tend to be pretty cagey when talking about how their design processes. What did the esports team you consulted with change about this mouse? What other materials did you consider for ...

Using a new computer model, scientists simulated the stripes, spots and hexagons on a species of boxfish, imperfections and all. A male ornate boxfish with distinctive, complex patterns of stripes and ...

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion. What begins as 2² quickly turns into 2⁴, 2⁸, 2¹⁶ — racing past the limits ...

The goal of a machine learning binary classification problem is to predict a variable that has exactly two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex of a company employee (male = ...

A new report suggests that Dwayne Johnson is “heartbroken” over The Smashing Machine’s box office numbers. This report comes from insider Rob Shuter. On #ShuterScoop, Shuter said a source told him the ...

For decades, scientists have relied on structure to understand protein function. Tools like AlphaFold have revolutionized how researchers predict and design folded proteins, allowing for new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...