Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A record-breaking result from Florida's annual python hunt is drawing attention — but for a sobering reason.

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 ...

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

We've been pondering for a while now about whether Xbox might choose to avoid including a disc drive in the next-gen Project Helix console, and a new report suggests that might indeed be the case.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday that the initial U.S. operation in Iran has concluded, distinguishing between that and the newer effort by the U.S. Navy to guide commercial ships through ...

The Trump administration says "Project Freedom," aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz to commercial traffic by defending ships against Iranian attacks, is already working. But experts are skeptical ...

Iran's regime already claimed on Monday to have hit a U.S. warship with missiles. U.S. Central Command announced Sunday that the newest military strategy to reopen the Strait of Hormuz to broader ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Two of Nvidia's biggest customers might be turning into its biggest threat. For three years, Nvidia's ...

In “Project Maven,” Katrina Manson shows us how close we are to artificial intelligence picking targets and dropping bombs without human input. By Fred Kaplan Fred Kaplan, Slate’s War Stories ...

Liam Price just cracked a 60-year-old problem that world-class mathematicians have tried and failed to solve. He’s 23 years old and has no advanced mathematics training. What he does have is a ChatGPT ...

Two is the magical number for Project Runway‘s upcoming season, which is set to be its biggest yet. For Season 22 of the reality competition, the second one on Hulu, Disney+ and Freeform, 22 designers ...