In years past, my go-to word in describing our political condition was “polarization.” I used it endlessly and still do on ...

Chinese tech giant ByteDance finalised its agreement to sell a majority stake in its video platform TikTok to a group of US investors. TikTok announced on 22 January 2026, that it has formed TikTok ...

In years past, my go-to word in describing our political condition was “polarization.” I used it endlessly and still do on occasion. But as time has moved on, and the divide has only grown in depth ...

Lottery tickets purchased repeatedly in the same small Texas town led to four separate wins and nearly $21 million in total payouts. State officials verified each claim, but the streak stood out ...

Clockwise from top left Tom Needham, Martin Bauer, Wojciech Ożański and Jeremy Usatine. (Devin Bittner/FSU College of Arts and Sciences) Four Florida State University faculty from the Department of ...

All mainstream credit card numbers obey a mathematical trick designed to catch the most common typos. It’s called the Luhn algorithm, named after IBM researcher Hans Peter Luhn, who patented it in ...

A new report by Capgemini warns that quantum computing may break the widely used public-key cryptographic systems within the next decade — threatening everything from online banking to blockchain ...

In this paper, we propose an algorithm for solving inequality constrained mini-max optimization problem. In this algorithm, an active set strategy is used together with multiplier method to convert ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Lexicographer Stamper (Word by Word) takes readers on an uproarious journey into Merriam-Webster’s somber ...

A look inside Quantinuum's quantum computer. Quantum computing is still in the early stages of development, but it has proven to be an extremely powerful tool for various applications. While most ...