For new discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines, follow NPR's ShortWave podcast . Over a century ago, the German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler conducted what became a ...

They played second fiddle to private equity and hedge funds for years, but 2026 is shaping up to be “the year of the bank,” one consultant said. Credit...Paul Windle Supported by By Rob Copeland It is ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

Abstract: In this paper, we delve into the monotone sub-modular maximization problem with a cardinality constraint. We propose a priority-ordered swapping algorithm that iteratively improves the ...

A new quantum-inspired algorithm has cracked a problem so massive that conventional supercomputers struggle to even approach it. Researchers used the method to simulate extraordinarily complex quantum ...

In a cramped Manhattan apartment in late 2021, three young investment bankers often toiled into the wee morning hours, crunching away on spreadsheets and rearranging logos on slide decks, while one of ...

Macworld reports that Apple’s watchOS 8.8.2 update is causing significant problems including app installation failures, random crashes, and battery drain issues. The update particularly affects older ...

Chrome OS has been around for a long, long time, with the Pixelbook first showing us what a premium experience using just a browser could be. In the years that have followed, we’ve seen various ...

Federal bank enforcement actions have fallen sharply since the start of the second Trump administration, but experts are divided about whether the decline represents a change in attitude about ...

A presentation from a headhunting firm aimed to recruit Wall Street investors to the Pentagon by offering “unmatched access” to government officials and fund-raising opportunities among foreign ...

Key insight: A push to using large language models to generate software code is causing service disruptions at Amazon. Quote: "Amazon had four critical incidents in a week, and their own memo said ...

The grey wolf optimization algorithm is a metaheuristic optimization algorithm based on the behavior of grey wolf groups in nature, which has the advantages of a simple concept and few adjustment ...