Australian actor Martin Grelis, who appeared in the 1999 first installment of The Matrix film series, has died at the age of 57. “Martin was a bright spark who lit up every room he was in—a talented ...

You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer. An international team ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Higher education used to be the ticket to opportunity. Now, as colleges boast of ‘record breaking’ admissions, students are left with overcrowded classrooms and diluted resources. The door to success ...

Every time a new slang word gets coined on the Internet, linguist Adam Aleksic is thrilled. “It’s definitely good for me in that I stay in business,” says Aleksic, who studies the origins of words and ...

Maharashtra FYJC 2025 admissions: The Maharashtra government has officially announced the schedule for the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) Round 1 for Class 11th (FYJC) in 2025. Students aspiring ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a complete end-to-end demonstration of computing a matrix inverse using the Newton iteration algorithm. Compared to other algorithms, Newton ...

Dozens of machine learning algorithms require computing the inverse of a matrix. Computing a matrix inverse is conceptually easy, but implementation is one of the most difficult tasks in numerical ...

In his column “‘Economic Affirmative Action’ Won’t Work” (Upward Mobility, April 23), Jason Riley critiques Richard Kahlenberg’s call for elite colleges to favor class indicators—such as parental ...