VentureBeat

Meet AlphaEvolve, the Google AI that writes its own code—and just saved millions in computing costs

Google DeepMind today pulled the curtain back on AlphaEvolve, an artificial-intelligence agent that can invent brand-new computer algorithms — then put them straight to work inside the company's vast ...
PC Gamer

Google claims it has made a 'major breakthrough' in quantum computing with an algorithm 13,000X faster than a traditional equivalent, although not everyone is convinced

The algo is called 'Quantum Echoes', which coincidentally is also the name of my synthwave side project. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...
PC Gamer

Implementing a spellchecker on 64 kB of RAM back in the 1970s led to a compression algorithm that's technically unbeaten and part of it is still in use today

Spell checking is such a ubiquitous feature of today's software that we expect to see it in browsers and basic text editors, and on just about every computing device. However, 50 years ago, it was a ...
Chemistry World

Purer silicon lets robust quantum computing get started on a new medium

After the applied mathematician Peter Shor, then at Bell Labs in New Jersey, showed that a quantum algorithm could, in theory ...