How do you stop robotic traffic jams? Researchers found that adding "noise" or randomness to robot paths optimizes swarm efficiency, proving that swarms don't need central AI to avoid gridlock.

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One paper finds that attacking the bitcoin blockchain through quantum mining would demand the energy output of a star.

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