I tried training a classifier, then found a better solution.

It’s officially a deal spree for Solve Industrial Motion. The engineered bearings and power transmission products distributor announced Oct. 27 the acquisition of Miller Bearing Company — a conveyor ...

The robot completed the puzzle in just 45.3 seconds, breaking its own record of 55 seconds made just moments earlier. By Mack DeGeurin Published Mar 12, 2026 1:04 PM EDT Add Popular Science (opens in ...

Some readers may solve the problem procedurally: line up the two numbers, add the ones column, carry the one, and add the tens to get 43. Others might instead notice a creative shortcut: 29 + 14 is ...

I’m a new principal investigator (PI) with my own laboratory at a prestigious university. The PhD students who make it into our programme have already achieved a lot academically. But, sometimes, that ...

# For toeplitz matrices, solve_toeplitz() should be equivalent to solve().

Microsoft has warned that information-stealing attacks are "rapidly expanding" beyond Windows to target Apple macOS environments by leveraging cross-platform languages like Python and abusing trusted ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

While I write about many video games in this job, there’s one that has become more mainstream than practically every other. That would be Wordle, part of the New York Times’ slate of daily games that ...

Solve Intelligence, the AI-driven patent startup, has raised a $40m series B round, taking their total funding to $55m. The new raise is just 6 months after their previous one – a sign of strong ...