Dozens of computer science experts from industry leaders and renowned academic institutions gathered at the University on Tuesday and Wednesday for the second annual workshop to deal with the effects ...

You've just put a dollar into a machine to play a song and it stopped playing after a few seconds. You put in another dollar ...

A federal computer programming error has prompted the U.S. State Department to void the results of the visa lottery. That means major disappointment for tens of ...

An automated Veterans Affairs system meant to help accelerate claims decisions actually helped contribute to inaccurate ratings on 27% of high blood pressure claims. A VA Office of the Inspector ...

Months after a High Court judge tore into the Post Office’s approach to branch computer system errors, the organisation is not sharing details of possible errors with subpostmasters, who are also ...

Noted Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir (the "S" in RSA Security and the middle one in the picture at right) has made an obvious, but nonetheless important ...

While working on your computer, and especially while browsing the web, it is very common to bump into an error. Errors are perfectly normal things which suggest that ...

A computer glitch when the Department of Corrections converted to a new system more than four years ago inserted errors into an unknown number of inmates' files, in many cases making it look as if ...

The Post Office has identified and fixed an error in its back-office system, but has warned subpostmasters to be vigilant to avoid further problems. Computer Weekly ...

A new Swinburne study is addressing a core paradox: if quantum computing is solving problems that cannot be checked by conventional methods, how can we be certain the results are correct? Quantum ...

Researchers have demonstrated a type of quantum eraser. The physicists show that they can pinpoint and correct for mistakes in quantum computing systems known as 'erasure' errors. Quantum computers of ...

Hugo Martín is an assistant editor on the Fast Break Desk, the Los Angeles Times’ breaking news team. He has been a journalist with the Los Angeles Times for more than 30 years, covering politics, ...