Data science and machine learning algorithms can help us form probabilistic forecasts of things like sporting events.

There is a man who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for building the brain of artificial intelligence. And that man will tell you, openly, that he has no idea how it actually thinks. Geoffrey Hinton, ...

When a quantum computer processes data, it must translate it into understandable quantum data. Algorithms that carry out this 'quantum compilation' typically optimize one target at a time. However, a ...

For about a decade, computer engineer Kerem Çamsari employed a novel approach known as probabilistic computing. Based on probabilistic bits (p-bits), it’s used to solve an array of complex ...

Researchers have successfully employed an algorithm to identify potential mutations which increase disease risk in the noncoding regions our DNA, which make up the vast majority of the human genome.

Smartwatches are among the wearable devices that gather health data. Translating that data into useful information can be complicated and expensive. (iStock) The human body constantly generates a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.