When I was in middle school, I had a classmate who would look at trigonometric functions and yell, "I will never need these!" ...

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For years, California lawmakers were stymied. But now, at a crucial juncture for electricity in America, the state is embracing an ambitious and long-awaited plan: to buy and sell far, far more power ...

When a company with tens of thousands of software engineers found that uptake of a new AI-powered tool was lagging well below 50%, they wanted to know why. It turned out that the problem wasn’t the ...

Your enjoyment of a round of golf can be hugely impacted by the tee box from which you choose to play. Select a tee that’s too short and you’ll be hitting driver-wedge all day; too long, and you’ll ...

Abstract: In this paper we describe a class of cryptographic guess-and-determine attacks which is based on the notion of a linearizing set. A linearizing set-based ...

iOS 26.2 beta 1 arrived earlier today, and it gives Apple’s Freeform app support for tables for the first time. Apple’s Freeform app is a sort of digital playground where you can pull together all ...

Bugs and scientists have long been oddball allies in the effort to understand decomposing bodies, but there's a catch. When a person or animal dies, insects can detect that death faster than humans ...

Plastics are woven into every aspect of our lives, but what was once the poster child for convenience is fast becoming a pariah product. The era of single-use plastic must end; banning it is the only ...

Have you ever opened an Excel file and felt a pang of unease? Rows upon rows of data, cryptic formulas sprawled across cells, and a tangle of manual formatting that seems one misstep away from chaos.