The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to measure what he called the “beknottedness” of knots. The Scottish mathematician, whose research ...

What’s happened? Microsoft is testing a tiny, helpful tweak in the latest Insider Preview of Windows 11. Copy any text, and a small paste gleam appears in the Windows Search box on your taskbar. Click ...

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You can use Search Live to interact with an AI assistant using your voice and your phone’s camera. You can use Search Live to interact with an AI assistant using your voice and your phone’s camera. is ...

Google launches Search Live in English in the U.S., adding real-time, camera-aware voice search to the Google app with links to the web. Search Live is available in the Google app and Lens without ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Nathan Goldman is a tax prof. at NC State Univ. If Trump’s tariffs in the year 2025 have taught us anything, it is that tax policy ...

Many authors have written about the harm of oversimplification, pointing out that it distorts reality, leads to shallow understanding, impairs problem-solving, and fuels biases. In culture wars, it ...

Google announced on Tuesday that it’s adding new capabilities to AI Mode, its experimental feature that allows users to ask complex questions and follow-ups to dig deeper on a topic directly within ...

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Officials, emergency crews and volunteers in Central Texas were holding out hope for finding survivors of the flash flooding, as the death toll climbed. By Samuel Rocha IVNicholas Bogel-Burroughs and ...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, the federal agency that puts out the monthly jobs report and the consumer price index, also collects data on people’s daily routines. The American Time Use Survey ...