I first encountered Dijkstra’s hot takes nearly four years ago, not long after I joined Quanta as a staff writer covering computer science. The subject was new to me — I’d been a physics journalist, ...

As results day data shows falling entries, Cambridge OCR managing director Myles McGinley says the subject is ‘more important than ever’ as AI takes off The rising use of AI could make students think ...

Thousands of students across Greater Manchester have found out their GCSE results today after months of hard work. On Thursday (August 20), 15 and 16-year-olds who sat their exams in May and June ...

Nearly a quarter of girls’ entries received one of the higher grades against around a fifth of those from boys Almost one in four boys in England get top grades in maths The proportion of GCSE ...

Girls have once again achieved better GCSE results than boys - but the gap between the genders is getting smaller. Thousands of pupils across England, Wales and Northern Ireland discovered their ...

Zulfi Alam thinks his team doesn’t need to “prove” they engineered a new state of matter in their bid to reinvent computing. Researchers disagree. The man leading Microsoft’s multibillion-dollar ...

A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function ...

Researchers cobbled together funding and time to show how quantum computing could aid in the development of drugs to help underserved populations and combat rare diseases. The Technical University of ...

Quantum computers still face limits when it comes to storing information. Researchers at ETH Zurich are now turning to mechanical vibrations rather than electromagnetic memory. Their new vibrating ...

With dozens of companies, from small startups to tech giants, pursuing quantum computing, there’s a steady flow of results as they try to find a path to utility. We typically focus on new technologies ...

It’s a weird time to be studying computer science. Recent grads have a higher unemployment rate than those in just about every other major—yes, even philosophy. The internet is littered with rants ...