The Russian Way to Multiply Is So Much Cooler Than Ours

Try this ancient multiplication trick—halves and doubles, also called Egyptian or Russian math—where you repeatedly halve one ...

L3Harris building 'persistent starer' missile-tracking satellites in Palm Bay

Less than four months after an August ribbon-cutting, L3Harris announced the $100 million satellite facility has ramped up to ...
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We’ve finally cracked how to make truly random numbers

From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

Natural language found more complex than it strictly needs to be—and for good reason

Human languages are complex phenomena. Around 7,000 languages are spoken worldwide, some with only a handful of remaining speakers, while others, such as Chinese, English, Spanish and Hindi, are ...