VERNON HILLS, Ill. (WGN) — An early morning cargo heist has landed one man behind bars, though authorities in Vernon Hills say at least half a dozen people managed to escape. The cargo theft incident ...

Mathematician Maggie Miller explores the strange and fascinating world of 4D topology — the study of shapes, or manifolds, that resemble flat Euclidean space when viewed up close.

Some 30 years ago, the mathematician Peter Shor took a niche physics project — the dream of building a computer based on the counterintuitive rules of quantum mechanics — and shook the world. Shor ...

Most of the crypto industry spent this week processing Google's paper on how quantum computers could break blockchain encryption. One startup is asking a different question — whether quantum hardware ...

The smartphone, the object you’re most likely holding in your hand right now (and reading this story on), has transformed society over the past two decades. These gizmos have gifted us convenience and ...

Trustees for Livingston Public Schools recently approved the disposal of 100 desktop computer, 40 tablets, 100 laptops, 100 Chromebooks and more. Trustees made this unanimous decision at their last ...

So-called bug out cars are a rather silly venture that serve little purpose more than snagging your jumper. The odds of a car working well through a nuclear winter are rather minimal. But what about a ...

Pocket computers like Sharp’s 8-bit computing marvels were a big part of the 1980s, providing super-portable processing power to anyone who wanted a bit more than what something like a scientific ...