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Summary: Multidistrict litigation demands precision, speed, and coordination across a maze of data and discovery obligations. Here’s how proactive planning and strategic use of AI can help legal teams ...

Airlines list all flight departure and arrival times in the local time of the respective airports. Travelers do not need to calculate time zone differences or daylight saving changes, as airlines ...

Every evening as I remove the pillows from my bed, the nightly ritual signaling the end of another day, I inevitably think: Where did the day go? When I glance at photos of my now-adult children that ...

There’s that nagging voice again: “Put the phone away. No, really this time.” But we don’t; 84 percent of Americans say that they are online either several times a day or “almost constantly.” “On your ...

When industry leaders gathered in London this past June for a Nasdaq-hosted financial technology conference, complexity was at the top of the agenda. Financial institutions are grappling with ...

There’s no shortage of disruption across the supply chain these days. Yet efforts to address it can create another challenge: operational complexity. Outdated, manual processes, patchwork legacy ...

We have seen how to read data from a file, either in unstructured text or CSV format, and how to write data in these formats. We’ve also seen how to read and write JSON. In this chapter we’ll see how ...

Does artificial intelligence (AI) make working life easier or complicated? Experts suggest the answer depends on the context. In a recent IDC-hosted interview, SIAC CEO Toni Townes-Whitley described ...

A time-to-digital converter (TDC) is like a stopwatch measuring the elapsed interval between two events with picosecond precision, converting this into a digital value for post-processing. Many space ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi was discussing the possibility of intelligent alien life with his colleagues. If alien ...