Tens of thousands of Reddit users reported problems using the popular social media platform during an outage on Monday, April 6, that has since resolved. According to the outage tracker Downdetector, ...

As you read this, every atom in your body is desperately trying to tear itself apart. In fact, that goes for every atom, everywhere, since the beginning of time. Thankfully, those efforts have failed.

If you're looking to log onto Fidelity Investments, you could find an obstacle. According to Downdetector, users are having problems using the site people use to manage investments. The errors were ...

If you're looking to log onto Chime, you could find problems. According to Downdetector, users are having problems using the financial technology company. The bugs popped up April 1 shortly before 1 p ...

Leaders often fall into the ‘fixer trap,’ solving problems instead of developing their teams. This piece shows how stepping back builds independent thinkers, strengthens trust and scales leadership ...

In 2013, when Meredith O’Connor was 16, the music video for her debut single “Celebrity” went viral. Afterward, she channeled her own stardom into championing childhood mental health: As a hyperactive ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Amateur mathematicians are using artificial intelligence chatbots to solve long-standing problems, in a move that has taken professionals by surprise. While the problems in question aren’t the most ...

Over the weekend, Neel Somani, who is a software engineer, former quant researcher, and a startup founder, was testing the math skills of OpenAI’s new model when he made an unexpected discovery. After ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century. In this case, the solvers weren't human. An artificial ...

Where Winds Meet players are taking a novel approach to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they have solved the game's riddles. The Wuxia open-world ...