PINOLE, Calif. (KGO) -- You should check your bank statement if you bought gas at a 7-Eleven in the past week. A computer glitch has led customers to be overcharged "100 times" what they should have ...

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.

All of modern mathematics is built on the foundation of set theory, the study of how to organize abstract collections of objects. But in general, research mathematicians don’t need to think about it ...

Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data. Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like ...

Several Bay Area restaurants have stepped forward to offer discounted or free meals to families whose federal nutrition benefits will expire this weekend. Forty-two million Americans stand to lose ...

Google’s Willow quantum computer (pictured here) is delivering. Image credits: Google. “Today, we’re announcing research that shows — for the first time in history — that a quantum computer can ...

The Nov. 4 ballot will feature some familiar faces vying for four open seats on the Leechburg Area School Board. Incumbents Darius Lovelace, 74, and Candi Stewart, 69, are seeking to keep their seats.

Designed to accelerate advances in medicine and other fields, the tech giant’s quantum algorithm runs 13,000 times as fast as software written for a traditional supercomputer. A quantum computer at ...

OHIO — Several area high schools remained highly ranked in the latest Ohio High School Athletic Association’s (OSHAA) football computer ratings. The weekly ratings are released every Tuesday until the ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...