A new probeless smart oven uses cameras and weight sensors to identify the precise geometry of the food you stick inside.

However, in late 2025, while searching for Windows tools to automate boring tasks, I came across DropIt, an open-source ...

When observing small worms under a microscope, one might observe something very surprising: the worms appear to make a ...

When an insurance company wants to deny or reduce your claim, a human being must make the final call. Not a model. Not an ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...

In an era dominated by social media, misinformation has become an all too familiar foe, infiltrating our feeds and sowing seeds of doubt and confusion. With more than half of social media users across ...

Trying to distinguish between the emails directly sent to me and which ones I was just being Cc’d into in my Outlook Inbox used to take me a heap of time. I’d need to wade through each one and read ...

There is a new sorting algorithm a deterministic O(m log2/3 n)-time algorithm for single-source shortest paths (SSSP) on directed graphs with real non-negative edge weights in the comparison-addition ...

You’re at the checkout screen after an online shopping spree, ready to enter your credit card number. You type it in and instantly see a red error message ...