Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, playing a key role in the ...

“USA250: The Story of the World’s Greatest Economy” is a yearlong WSJ series examining America’s first 250 years. Read more about it from Editor in Chief Emma Tucker. Homelessness has been a vexing ...

This is part of a series of columns about the viability of the American university system. In the previous installment of this series on the future of higher education, I talked with professors about ...

Do we need quantum computers to fully understand complex chemical reactions? A new result, decades in the making, shows the surprising power of ordinary “classical” machines. What Garnet Chan cares ...

When I started writing my latest book on hope, I wasn’t entirely sure what I wanted to say. The world doesn’t exactly make hope feel easy these days. There always seems to be another headline ...

Doron Zeilberger is a mathematician who believes that all things come to an end. That just as we are limited beings, so too does nature have boundaries — and therefore so do numbers. Look out the ...

During my past three years as a computing education Ph.D. student, I taught computer science courses to 72 incarcerated college students in a prison near San Diego, CA, USA. Prior to this experience, ...

Sure, it looks dull, but HP's EliteBoard G1a offers a glimpse at a future where our PCs are completely hidden from view. Reading time 7 minutes More than 15 years ago, PC maker Asus had a quirky idea ...

Quantum computers might eventually be able to handle some AI applications that currently require huge amounts of conventional computing power. Such a development would be a major boost to machine ...

Bitcoin’s security relies on elliptic curve cryptography, a one-way mathematical function that makes deriving a private key from a public key effectively impossible for traditional computers. Shor’s ...

Explore how brain computer interface technology and advanced brain-computer interfaces are transforming digital interaction, potentially replacing traditional keyboards and screens with thought-driven ...

Blake has over a decade of experience writing for the web, with a focus on mobile phones, where he covered the smartphone boom of the 2010s and the broader tech scene. When he's not in front of a ...