Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...

This study used pupillometry to provide an objective assessment of a form of synesthesia in which people see additional color when reading numbers. It provides convincing evidence that subjective ...

Software developers are getting more and more signs every day that AI is going to render them jobless. The advancement of models like AI LLM models like that of Anthropic, which has released Claude, ...

OpenAI is raising money and considering an IPO amid concerns about its data center spending. Experts say OpenAI plans to spend so much that they worry it will be hard to bring in enough revenue. The ...

An AI model that learns without human input—by posing interesting queries for itself—might point the way to superintelligence. Save this story Save this story Even the smartest artificial intelligence ...

The benchmarks are quite simple and consist of generating IDs using each library's raw interface as much as possible, e.g. the UUID module is benchmarked by measuring the execution time of the ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

You’ve probably seen “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” – 15 questions, tense music, and someone sweating over whether Paris is really the capital of France. We thought it would be fun to bring that same ...