As organizations continue to expand their technology stacks, adding point solutions to address immediate problems, many unintentionally create more complexity than they eliminate.

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

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 ...

The attention economy has long been the golden goose of Silicon Valley, but the goose is starting to look more like an albatross. Users can’t put their phones down, algorithms rule our lives and human ...

Every year, the countries competing in the International Mathematical Olympiad arrive with a booklet of their best, most original problems. Those booklets get shared among delegations, then quietly ...

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Last week, the NBA fined the Utah Jazz $500,000 for "conduct detrimental to the league" and the Indiana Pacers $100,000 for violating the league's Player Participation Policy after both teams altered ...

One idle evening last October, Mehtaab Sawhney took up an old pastime. He began perusing the website erdosproblems.com, an updated record of the 1,179 conjectures left behind by the eccentric and ...

Bluetooth technology has revolutionized wireless connectivity. Connecting two devices and listening to music, sending files, or playing games is easier than ever before. Bluetooth connectivity is so ...

This video breaks down the bizarre legal battle over who owns the JavaScript name. Despite not creating or maintaining the language, Oracle controls the trademark. The story traces how this happened ...