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Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point at which existing quantum computers can break public-key cryptography algorithms that secure decades’ worth ...

Billionaire Ken Griffin runs Citadel Advisors, the most profitable hedge fund in history; Citadel sold shares of Sandisk and bought stock in D-Wave Quantum during the third quarter. Sandisk develops ...

Ask any bookseller what their least favorite part of a physical book is, and you’ll get a long thought-out opinion on how much they hate something like deckled edges, French flaps, partial dust ...

Ever wonder why a shared laugh or witty remark can spark attraction? Humor does more than lighten the mood—it may reveal clues about a person’s creativity. Research by Erika Langley and Michelle ...

How many times does the letter “r” appear in the word “strawberry”? According to formidable AI products like GPT-4o and Claude, the answer is twice. Large language models (LLMs) can write essays and ...

The aim of this Research Topic is to advance our understanding of cognitive creativity, creative problem-solving, and creative art and artistic performance by showcasing novel and/or interdisciplinary ...

At first glance, the problem seems ridiculously simple. And yet experts have been searching for a solution in vain for decades. According to mathematician Jeffrey Lagarias, number theorist Shizuo ...

If you’re gray at the temples, you know the joke about the dog eating an unfortunate middle schooler’s homework. If you’re part of Gen Z, you don’t need to blame a real or invented dog because there ...

Want to go viral on social media? LinkedIn has a message for you: Try that somewhere else. “When things go viral on LinkedIn, usually that’s a sign to us that we need to look into this, because that’s ...

In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in ...

In January 2020, Robert Williams was at work in an auto shop in the US city of Detroit when he received a surreal and disturbing phone call. Robert Williams was wrongly arrested because of flawed ...