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 ...

Joystick drift on the DualSense controller is one of the most common frustrations for PlayStation 5 gamers. This issue occurs when analog sticks register movement even without input, causing ...

Sewing machines looked simple, but their inner workings were anything but. Engineers had to invent an entirely new way of sewing to make machines possible. Tiny mechanical movements worked in perfect ...

New research reveals why even state-of-the-art large language models stumble on seemingly easy tasks—and what it takes to fix ...