Abstract: On the premise of solving the problem in a specific situation, this paper aims at the laser marking machine to design and optimize the outline extraction of the two-dimensional composite ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Quantum computers still can’t do much. Almost every time researchers have found something the high-tech machines should one day excel at, a classical algorithm comes along that can do it just as well ...

Quantum computers could crack a common data encryption technique once they have a million qubits, or quantum bits. While this is still well beyond the capabilities of existing quantum computers, this ...

What is the Q-Day prize? The Q-Day Prize is a challenge to make the Bitcoin network quantum resistant. On April 16, 2025, quantum computing-focused company Project 11 announced the “Q-Day Prize,” a ...

Researchers at FIU’s College of Engineering and Computing have developed an encryption algorithm to defend videos from attackers with access to the world's most powerful computers. The encryption ...

Quantum computing is still in the early stages of development, but it has proven to be an extremely powerful tool for various applications. While most demonstrations of their efficiency are limited to ...

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Recent breakthroughs in quantum computing have led market commentators to, once again, claim that Bitcoin’s future is under threat. Google’s Willow quantum chip and its ability to significantly reduce ...

Nvidia has announced its latest generation of Geforce RTX graphics cards, based on its Blackwell architecture of GPUs. The RTX 50 series is launching at the end of January, with four tiers of cards ...

Now that the PS5 Pro is here, we know that it does deliver slightly better gaming performance, especially whenever a ‘performance mode’ is enabled. This is largely thanks to the RDNA 2 GPU simply ...