Part one explained the physics of quantum computing. This piece explains the target — how bitcoin's encryption works, why a ...

Pianpian Xu Guthrie, Amotions AI’s founder, was eager to tell me more. The AI model observes video calls on your computer, ...

Teachers can use these questions to draw students out and get worthwhile formative assessment responses to guide instruction.

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Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, cautioned on NPR's Newsmakers podcast this week that the country's $39 trillion debt is heading somewhere bad. He just can't tell you exactly when it'll become a ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In 1997, Deep Blue, a supercomputer built by IBM, did the unexpected: it defeated chess ...

Fermat’s Last Theorem is one of the most famous problems in mathematical history. Proposed in the 17th century, it claimed that certain equations have no solutions in whole numbers. For centuries, ...

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 ...

GPT just keeps getting better at mathematics, increasingly solving the trickiest of problems. In January, AI testing company Epoch AI found that a previous version of the AI model, GPT-5.2 Pro had ...