When President Donald Trump returned from a trip to the Gulf in May 2025, he trumpeted $2.2 trillion in bilateral deals the United States had signed with Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab ...

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In 2002, with the dot-com wreckage still smouldering, Sun Microsystems’ chief executive officer Scott McNealy was asked about ...

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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 ...

Liam Price has no formal training in mathematics and has yet to attend university, but last month, he managed to break new ground in mathematical research — with the help of ChatGPT. Posting on the ...

An Associated Press investigation reveals that dozens of children who were separated under the first Trump administration have been re-separated, despite a judge's order to reunite them. Some of their ...

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Leeron is a New York-based writer who specializes in covering technology for small and mid-sized businesses. Her work has been featured in publications including Bankrate, Quartz, the Village Voice, ...

The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that represents how close humanity is to self-destruction, due to nuclear weapons and climate change. The clock hands are set by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, ...