“A claim is valid even if only one embodiment discloses corresponding structure.” – CAFC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) today issued a precedential decision in Richard Gramm, ...

Thanks to the alternating single-double nature of the bonds, electrons in these orbitals end up delocalized; the differences between the bonds become a bit irrelevant, and the molecule is best viewed ...

Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...

The team's automated reasoning research aims to build algorithms that allow computers to perform logical reasoning. The output of these algorithms is traditionally binary: satisfiable or unsatisfiable ...

Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined ...

In a small lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz, clusters of mouse brain cells have taken on a task normally reserved for computer algorithms: ...

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) ...

The popular short form video app has a new corporate structure in the United States, which could result in some changes for the 200 million Americans who use TikTok. By Emmett Lindner TikTok has new ...

One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

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.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google ran an algorithm on its “Willow” quantum-computing chip that can be repeated on similar platforms and outperform classical supercomputers, a breakthrough it said clears a path ...