One often-repeated example illustrates the mind-boggling potential of quantum computing: A machine with 300 quantum bits ...

The creation and purification of magic states can be a limiting step in quantum computing. Now an error correcting code has been found where the overhead of this ...

Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. By Dan Wang. W.W. Norton; 288 pages; $31.99. Allen Lane; £25 Many of the people who run China are engineers, and it shows. Since the 1980s China has ...

Alright, pal, you wanna keep reading? Why don’t you tell me which of these pictures does not have a stop sign in it? According to CloudFlare, nearly one-third of all internet traffic is now bots. Most ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, creator of the most popular AI chatbot on Earth, says he’s starting to worry that “dead internet theory” is coming true. “I never took the dead internet theory that seriously,” ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

A woman investigated over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has told Sky News she was shocked by the police interest in her. Portuguese and British police investigated the German woman seven years ...

Following Kirk's death on Sept. 10, online speculation began to arise regarding a private jet departing Provo Airport shortly after the shooting took place The owner of a private jet at the center of ...

Babe, wake up! There’s a new theory that everyone’s star signs are wrong. Yep, the debate over whether or not the zodiac sign dates are accurate pops up every few years, the latest one being presented ...

Dan Brooks is a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Harper’s, Pitchfork, and other publications. He lives in Montana. The 1980 film Caddyshack — in which a teenage golf caddy ...

Mykhailo Mudryk may have failed a doping test due to a stem cell injection, with a Ukrainian journalist providing a new theory on the Chelsea winger. Mudryk was heavily linked with Arsenal but ended ...