Angela Lipps, a grandmother from Tennessee, spent time in a North Dakota jail after facial recognition software wrongly linked her to a fraud case in Fargo. Lipps was released on Christmas Eve after ...

A team of scientists has used an IBM quantum computer to simulate the magnetic behavior of potassium copper fluoride, known ...

Studying and designing novel materials is a central application of quantum mechanics. Chemists, materials scientists, and ...

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When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

Heidi Klum’s Grammys dress was a literal second skin. The supermodel’s custom dress — by Austrian designer Marina Hoermanseder — was made from nude-colored leather molded onto a sculpted form of ...

Match Group, the owner of multiple popular online dating services, Tinder, Match.com, Meetic, OkCupid, and Hinge, confirmed a cybersecurity incident that compromised user data. The company stated that ...

A wave of cyberattacks has hit Bumble Inc., Panera Bread Co., Match Group Inc., and CrunchBase Inc., as cybersecurity experts warn about a new round of social engineering attacks targeting US ...

Researchers from Chiba University have developed a lightweight peer-selection algorithm that significantly reduces data propagation delays without increasing resource usage on internet of things (IoT) ...

Abstract: Template matching is an approach to locating parts of an image that are similar to a template. It is often employed in computer vision applications such as object detection, pattern ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in ...