The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Grand Theft Auto Online players are going to live the high life in the game's latest update, A Safehouse in the Hills. For the first time, the game is ...

Xiaomi has Xiaomi has already announced the REDMI Note 15 series in China and recently in Poland. Now, one model is showing up for sale on Belgian carrier Telenet’s website. The listing reveals ...

My graduate studies included learning about constraint-based optimization algorithms (such as linear programming) and ...

Kristen Stewart is weighing in on the Method acting debate. “The Chronology of Water” director recently told the New York Times that acting is by nature “quite embarrassing and unmasculine,” and that ...

My female students at the University of Virginia are worried about the state of the opposite sex. The women who take my “sociology of family” class tell of brothers living in their parents’ basements, ...

Reports have emerged that the Malawi Police Service, acting on instructions from higher authorities, is reportedly executing a search warrant at the farm of Simplex Chithyola, former Finance Minister ...

Mark Zuckerberg has announced a series of major changes that Meta will soon implement, including the introduction of a Community Notes system modeled after X’s, revisions in its content moderation ...

During an interview with The New York Times, Stewart was asked about method acting after the conversation turned to Marlon Brando’s work on “Superman: The Movie.” The legendary actor reportedly would ...

Apple Notes in macOS 26 can now import and export Markdown-formatted documents, giving developers, writers, and students an easier way to move text between apps. The built-in Notes app has long been a ...

Last year, a team of American diplomats from the State Department’s Global Engagement Center traveled to two dozen countries and signed a series of memoranda. Along with their counterparts in places ...