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.

The project aimed to develop a full stack of technologies to bring the practical advantages of quantum computing to industry in the near term Quantum computing is one of the frontiers of research and ...

Abstract: Machine Learning (ML) has been extensively utilized in the Measurement While Drilling (MWD) technology in the coal industry. However, there existed uncertainty about whether mainstream ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have developed a simple yet powerful method to characterize lithium metal battery performance with the help of a widely used imaging tool: ...

Mikel Hernaez receives funding from the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, the government of Navarra, the EU Department of Defence, the Carlos III Health Institute and the ...

ABSTRACT: An algorithm is being developed to conduct a computational experiment to study the dynamics of random processes in an asymmetric Markov chain with eight discrete states and continuous time.