Computer Science

Sciences & Technology

From sand to superposition: A key step towards a powerful silicon quantum computer

A major obstacle to quantum computing has been overcome by modifying a common industrial method to create large arrays of single atoms in a silicon chip

Arts & Culture

Your face is muted

In times of remote communication and notorious connection problems, how do we empathise with each other through the curtain of technology when non-verbal cues are missing?

Politics & Society

Trump, nipples and the hypocrisy of the social media giants

It took a mob to attack the US Capitol before then President Trump’s incitement was banned by the social media companies, but these same companies routinely censor the marginalised

Politics & Society

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Podcasts

The politics of hacking

Associate Professor Dunbar-Hester discusses the cultures and the communities of the digital era, with a focus on media and tech activists

Health & Medicine

How ‘artificial societies’ are helping plan our COVID-19 response

Computational social science has come to the fore in the COVID-19 response, allowing policy makers to trial policies on ‘artificial societies’ and see the results – before doing it in real life

Sciences & Technology

Machine learning to scale up the quantum computer

A machine learning framework has been created to precisely locate atom-sized quantum bits in silicon – a crucial step for building a large-scale silicon quantum computer

Sciences & Technology

It’s time to retire Lena from computer science

Why has a pornographic image been widely used to train computer scientists and their algorithms? And what sort of message does it send to women?

Sciences & Technology

Lifting the lid on quantum computing

Newly developed software for learning quantum computer programming allows students to see inside the ‘black box’ and start using the ‘weird’ physics to solve problems

Sciences & Technology

What were you thinking?

We are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence for important decisions but we don’t know how those decisions are being made. We urgently need Explainable AI (XAI)

Sciences & Technology

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Special Report

Quantum leap in computer simulation

Physicists have successfully run the largest quantum computing simulation to date, a key step in becoming quantum-ready