Turing Award Goes to Inventors of Quantum Cryptography

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles ...

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist devised a way to keep secrets safe from hackers

An American physicist and Canadian computer scientist received the A.M. Turing Award on Wednesday for their groundbreaking work on quantum key cryptography.
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SHA-256 vs Scrypt Mining: Cost Profiles, Risk, and Long-Term Strategy

Two of the most important ecosystems in proof-of-work mining are SHA-256 and Scrypt — each with its own hardware requirements, economics, and strategic considerations.

Cracking the code: How a “prediction machine” is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Some years ago, my linguistic research team and I started to develop a computational tool aimed at reconstructing the text of ...

Turing Award winner Tony Hoare, computing pioneer who invented Quicksort, dies at the age of 92

An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.