A coalition of billionaires led by Bill Gates has thrown its financial weight behind a startup hoping to build a “Google Maps for the earth’s crust” to hunt for new sources of cobalt. The ...

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A professor has helped create a powerful new algorithm that uncovers hidden patterns in complex networks, with potential uses in fraud detection, biology and knowledge discovery.

Grover’s algorithm is a distant second in this respect. Grover’s algorithm may someday pose a formidable challenge to PoW mining, however.