Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

A new era in mathematics may be on the horizon—one that some researchers have long desired. Mathematicians could soon use computers to verify proofs quickly and rigorously, ensuring published proofs ...

After a report identified British Bitcoin entrepreneur Adam Back as the digital currency creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, the ...

The way we tell computers what to do, through programming languages, has changed a ton. We’re going to take a look at the ...

Satoshi left behind many written clues, including the Bitcoin white paper and posts explaining how Bitcoin works.

The post we needed to start was about the alleged unmasking of bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor, Satoshi Nakamoto. Alphaville ...

Policymakers and pundits are laser-focused on the day’s debates. Cable news shows and social media feeds are consumed by the ...

Ultrafast lasers tracked plasma formation and ionization in copper with picosecond precision. Results show rapid ion growth ...

Massive rounds for AI, EDA, and manufacturing; 80 startups raise $8.4B.

A start-up has surprised the scientific community with a breakthrough: translating a modern proof into a programming language for verification using AI. But not everyone is celebrating ...