Artificial intelligence is consuming enormous amounts of energy, but researchers at the University of Florida have built a chip that could change everything by using light instead of electricity for a ...

The Powerball jackpot is now at $1.6 billion for the Monday, Dec. 22 drawing after no ticket matched all six numbers following a drawing on Dec. 20. The jackpot, with an estimated cash value of $753.3 ...

Some situations in life are zero-sum. On Super Bowl Sunday, two teams take the field but only one will emerge victorious, Vince Lombardi Trophy in hand. In a presidential election, only one candidate ...

So many productivity methods ask you to prioritize your daily tasks by considering how much time or effort they'll require, then tackling the resource-heavy ones first. For some people, that's a solid ...

Abstract: Effective mitigation of atmospheric phase screen (APS) is crucial for synthetic aperture radar (SAR) interferometry in coastal regions. However, existing methods suffer from various ...

If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle the easiest pieces first. But this kind of sorting has a cost.

Have you ever stared at a colorful Excel spreadsheet, wondering how to quickly calculate totals or counts based on cell colors? It’s a common frustration for anyone managing large datasets. While ...

Method references are a shorthand way to write lambda expressions that call a single method. Rather than implementing a method in a functional interface, a method reference simply points to an ...

A new proof illuminates the hidden patterns that emerge when addition becomes impossible. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be the most perplexing. Take addition. It’s a straightforward ...

Although mnemonic devices far predate the written word, both Cicero and Quintilian name Simonides of Ceos (c. 556-468 BCE) as the first teacher of an art of memory. Simonides is perhaps best known for ...

If you have a large amount of excess cash to invest, consider dollar-cost averaging as it helps investors stay invested and avoid the temptation to try to time the market. If you have a large amount ...

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) recently emailed over 2 million federal employees an offer to pay eight months of salary in exchange for resignation. Initiated by the newly launched ...