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 ...

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson says he still has “PTSD” from the GOP’s failed effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act during President Donald Trump’s first term. Now, the party ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

In this study, we propose an exact method for optimizing a linear function over the efficient set of a multi-objective transportation problem (MOTP). This type of problem arises when a decision maker ...

AI is making ever more jobs obsolete. The solution from Silicon Valley? A universal paycheck, no work required. Technology titans including Elon Musk and Sam Altman see a future flush with wealth ...

LONDON, July 22 (Reuters) - The majority of newly commissioned renewable energy is more cost-effective for electricity generation than most fossil fuels worldwide, a report by the International ...

A massive botnet of over 130,000 compromised devices is conducting password-spray attacks against Microsoft 365 (M365) accounts worldwide, targeting basic authentication to evade multi-factor ...

While Taiwan's semiconductor and server sectors have thrived in recent years, traditional industries have faced mounting challenges. In response, the government has proposed encouraging these ...

What if we could make cheap fuel out of thin air? For more than a century, a bewildering variety of methods has been attempted to make drop-in replacements for fossil fuels. Such synthetic fuels could ...

With Google’s recent U-turn around third-party cookie deprecation, it’s easy to think there’s no rush to adopt alternative data strategies like conversion API (CAPI). But that’s a dangerous assumption ...

Wim Hof is an athlete and motivational speaker who has proposed that cold exposure combined with periods of hyperventilation and breath-holding can improve health and well-being. The method involves ...