An effort in which thousands of people donate their computers' unused processing power uncovers the largest prime number so far known. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Three, as Schoolhouse Rock! told children of the 1970s, is a magic number. Three little pigs; three beds, bowls and bears for Goldilocks; three Star Wars trilogies. You need at least three legs for a ...

The number of girls choosing to take computing at A-level in 2024 increased by almost 800 students, pushing the total over the 3,000 student threshold. This 28.6% jump from 2023 to 2024 represents one ...

The performance of quantum computers could cap out after around 1,000 qubits, according to a new analysis published in the ...

Numbers rarely make headlines, but pi has a habit of doing exactly that. The ...