The history of human progress is usually defined by brilliant minds solving the world’s most pressing issues, but sometimes, that creative spark lands on something entirely unnecessary. We live in a ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Microsoft’s MSFT1.02%increase; green up pointing triangle Copilot chatbot has become central to its artificial-intelligence strategy as the company’s close partnership with OpenAI diminishes. But the ...

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 ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

Alienware’s 16X Aurora and Area-51 laptops won a Best of CES 2026 Award for adding beautiful OLED displays to the line. These computers have Intel Core Ultra 200HX chips and up to RTX 5090 graphics.

The new Alienware 16 Area-51 keeps the same design and most of the internal component options as its predecessor. While this machine might be a modest spec bump, the inclusion of an OLED panel, lower ...

TL;DR: Dell's Alienware Area-51 desktop gaming PC now features AMD's Ryzen 7 9850X3D, the world's fastest gaming CPU, paired with up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090, 64GB DDR5, and 12TB SSD. Designed for ...

The best way to fix Americans’ cost-of-living problem is to give workers bigger raises, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said last week. The problem: That solution looks broken, too. The US job ...

Life gets busy, and sometimes those basic math skills from school days get a little rusty. Whether you're budgeting, measuring for a DIY project, or just having a math-related brain teaser thrown your ...

Is anti-Semitism in American political discourse actually just a carefully cultivated deception? Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X revealed the location of every account on the site, and the results ...

Texas A&M completed the largest comeback in program history after storming back from 27 points down to miraculously pull off a 31–30 victory. But before the celebration, the Aggies dug themselves into ...