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 ...

Aaru, a startup that provides near-instant customer research by using AI to simulate user behavior, has raised a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures, according to three people familiar with the deal.

In the modern age of blue and green text bubbles, it’s easy to forget how much effort communication used to take. Scattered over the pre-smartphone decades, various communication methods would take ...

Chimpanzees use a variation of the "scientific method" — discarding prior beliefs if convincing new evidence comes along to change their minds, research shows. When you purchase through links on our ...

In the current climate, generic and expensive programs to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion—for example, trainings—are increasingly falling out of favor. In fact, most of the existing research ...

TikTok users speak almost reverently about the how the app’s algorithm recommends videos that are so eerily aligned with their tastes, it’s hard to put the app down. The consequence of that ...

Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,” coined ...

LOS ANGELES — Victor Wembanyama is doing something wrong. The 7-foot-4 unicorn, still in the early stages of rewriting how basketball is played, just made a move few in the world can. But it’s the ...

Costco depot set to bring over 500 jobs to Port St. Lucie by March 2026 A facility that's expected to bring hundreds of Costco jobs to city of Port St. Lucie is on track to open in March 2026. Child ...

When No. 16 Utah and No. 17 Texas Tech meet on Saturday at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah, it will be a battle of contrasts. While one program has set itself as one of the standards in ...

The report claims management’s aggressive monetization tactics have created a “short-term sugar high” in revenue that masks a collapsing user base and a “fundamentally broken business”. At the core of ...

In this Dark Reading News Desk interview at Black Hat USA 2025, Yoav Magid, senior security researcher for Lumia Security, explains that Apple Intelligence, which powers various AI applications ...