A common problem all retail stores face is shoplifting. Billions of dollars are lost each year to this widespread issue. Though adolescents may be slightly more likely to shoplift than adults, the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

If you’ve recently received a message claiming there’s an issue with your Amazon account, you’re far from alone—and there’s a strong chance the alert isn’t real. On November 25, 2025, Amazon sent a ...

This week, Amazon announced a new addition to Amazon Leo, the satellite internet initiative formerly known as Project Kuiper. Designed to rival Starlink, Leo Ultra purports to beat the Musk-founded ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

A University of California San Diego report warns that roughly one in eight incoming college students can’t meet middle school math standards. It found that the number of students needing to take ...

In “The Great Math War,” Jason Socrates Bardi takes on a battle for the soul of numbers that divided the experts of its day. By Jordan Ellenberg Jordan Ellenberg, a professor of mathematics at the ...

This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours. Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily ...