Thus was born Setun, the world’s first ternary computer—a machine that did not merely tweak binary logic but openly defied it ...

Aurora is expanding the number of gambling terminals allowed in local establishments, despite the city’s Hollywood Casino location being against the change. City code previously allowed licensed ...

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Leave it to Valve to announce some new hardware out of left field that quietly one-ups its competition, except for maybe Nintendo. If anything, Nintendo might be an inspiration for the PC czar and its ...

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion. What begins as 2² quickly turns into 2⁴, 2⁸, 2¹⁶ — racing past the limits ...

The goal of a machine learning binary classification problem is to predict a variable that has exactly two possible values. For example, you might want to predict the sex of a company employee (male = ...

For decades, scientists have relied on structure to understand protein function. Tools like AlphaFold have revolutionized how researchers predict and design folded proteins, allowing for new ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

Russia’s war machine is unraveling. From drones to missiles, explosives to basic vehicle parts, critical shortages are crippling its ability to fight. Years of overconfidence, sanctions, and outdated ...

More aggressive feature scaling and increasingly complex transistor structures are driving a steady increase in process complexity, increasing the risk that a specified pattern may not be ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Although AI (artificial intelligence) has entered the mainstream of industry and culture only in recent years, AI has existed for decades, with many historical accounts citing the early 1950s as the ...