Remember Microsoft Paint? It’s more perfect than ever. By Jean-Luc Bouchard My generation may be the last to have childhood memories of a family “computer room” — though ours was really more of a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. fizkes / iStock via Getty Images Having computer access in the digital age isn't a luxury anymore — it's a basic human need. For ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

We often think that computers close computerA device that processes information by following a set of rules called a program. and computing devices are really clever. Sometimes we think they are more ...

After almost two decades, a dozen University of Alberta researchers using hundreds ofcomputers have created a computer program that always wins or ties at the game of checkers. Jonathan Schaeffer, ...

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