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In 2017, a rosy wolf slug crawled along a sunlit path in Tahiti with an unexpected passenger: a bespoke computer the size of an aphid that was screwed delicately onto its case like a cylinder.This particular snail species is involved in the…

This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it on weekdays.Most people need toilet paper and computer chips every day, and yet we rarely think of either.That changed during the coronavirus pandemic when…

All over the world, car assembly lines are getting quiet, workers stand still, and dealer parking lots look empty.A shortage of semiconductors, the tiny but critical chips used to calibrate cars' fuel injection, run infotainment systems, or…

When Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman met in line on their first day at Princeton University in 1963, computer science was still a strange new world.Using a computer required a range of esoteric skills normally reserved for trained engineers…

Russell Impagliazzo, a professor of computer science at the University of California at San Diego, said the LLL algorithm also resulted in something called homomorphic encryption, which allows calculations to be performed on encrypted data…