Quantum computers are expected to be built at a size that is commercially useful in a mere few years, from maybe just 2028 to the mid-2030s, depending on the estimate and the exact capacity ...

A jigsaw puzzle company wants to design a new rectangular puzzle with a specific quirk: it must have the same number of edge ...

It’s not often a math paper goes viral, but a new preprint from a theoretical physicist at Poland’s Jagiellonian University ...

GPT-5.4 Pro cracked a conjecture in number theory that had stumped generations of mathematicians, using a proof strategy that ...

Europe’s new app will provide a centralized solution that removes the burden for tech platforms to verify users’ ages.

Recently, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias debated the merits of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs on a ...

Those changes will be contested, in math as in other academic disciplines wrestling with AI’s impact. As AI models become a ...

In Boston, where anything short of a championship is a failure, the future of sports prediction isn’t coming from instinct — ...

I remember watching my 3-year-old niece, Avi, try to organize her toy cars. She wasn't counting them yet, but she would say, “This one goes near the red one,” and “I want more cars here!” At the time, ...

We practically live on our phones these days. Scrolling and scrolling, endlessly. Entrepreneur Aza Raskin is responsible for creating this infinite scroll. He also testified against Meta, who have ...

Die Toshiba Corporation hat einen bahnbrechenden Algorithmus entwickelt, der die Performance ihres proprietären, quanteninspirierten Computers für kombinatorische Optimierung – der „Simulated ...

Chicago's public schools stand as a monument to bureaucratic inertia and misplaced priorities, where vast sums of taxpayer money vanish into underutilized buildings while student outcomes plummet.