Turing Award winner Gilles Brassard has spent decades warning about the threat posed by powerful quantum encryption.

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Hum by Helen Phillips, the story of a mother’s struggle to protect and nurture her small family in a broiling, near-future ...

Barcelona New scientific milestone for Barcelona, which continues to take steps to consolidate itself as one of ...

“You have zero privacy … Get over it,” Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, declared in 1999. What might have sounded like a bold claim at the turn of the millennium has turned into a ...

Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries ...

On May 15, the Illinois Department of Human Rights (IDHR) issued a Notice of Proposed Amendments (the Proposed Rules) concerning the Illinois ...