The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Tom Simonite covers artificial intelligence for WIRED. But Idemia’s algorithms don’t always see all faces equally clearly. July test results from the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Complexity theory is a branch of computer science that studies the resources required to solve computational problems, particularly focusing on the classification of problems based on their inherent ...