Trig – The Oldest Practical Math
My guests on this episode are the authors of Make Trigonometry, Build Your Way from Triangles to Analytic Geometry, Joan Horvath and Rich Cameron. Make Trigonometry is the third math book that Joan and Rich have written with us, the previous books.....»»
Hackers can force iOS and macOS browsers to divulge passwords and much more
iLeakage is practical and requires minimal resources. A patch isn't (yet) available. Enlarge (credit: Kim et al.) Researchers have devised an attack that forces Apple’s Safari browser to divulge passwords, Gmail messag.....»»
Google Pixel 8 Pro users are finding weird ways to use the phone
The Pixel 8 Pro's temperature sensor might sound like a solution searching for a problem, but users are finding practical scenarios where it's useful......»»
Scientists suggest eight practical measures to help managers prevent quiet quitting occurrence in their companies
Researchers provide eight practical suggestions to managers to prevent the occurrence of quiet quitting in the first place, as well as effectively handling it once it occurs......»»
The oldest pieces of Baltic amber found on the Iberian Peninsula indicates imports began over 5,000 years ago
A team of scientists from the Universities of Granada and Cambridge, as well as the Government of Catalonia, have identified the oldest pieces of Baltic amber ever found on the Iberian Peninsula, revealing that this luxury material used in jewelry an.....»»
Dealmaster: Lenovo deals, sales on charging solutions, and more
From toys to a new laptop, there's an assortment of practical, fun, and tech deals. Enlarge / The ThinkPad P1 showing off its ThinkPad branding. (credit: Lenovo) Today's Dealmaster ranges from Lenovo laptops to Lego toys.....»»
Math disabilities hold many students back. Schools often don"t screen for them
Laura Jackson became seriously concerned about her daughter and math when the girl was in third grade. While many of her classmates flew through multiplication tests, Jackson's daughter relied on her fingers to count, had difficulty reading clocks an.....»»
Local chemical pressure experimentally sensed by optical probe
The practical application of high-pressure metastable materials is hindered by severe synthesis condition, poor yield, and mostly vanishing phase and phenomena after decompressing. The scaled-up capture of these metastable states to ambient pressure.....»»
This Lenovo laptop is usually $2,688 — today it’s $629
Yes, your math is right. This Lenovo laptop is $2,000 off its estimated value. That's a 76% discount for Prime Day. But is there more to the story?.....»»
Artificial intelligence and clay tablets: Not yet a perfect match
: More and more articles are popping up about the possibilities offered by artificial intelligence for researching documents in the oldest scripts, from translating ancient texts, to filling in missing parts of clay tablets. But are we better off lea.....»»
Race to find world"s oldest mammal fossils led to academic warfare in the 1970s
The hunt for the world's most ancient mammals descended into academic warfare in the 1970s, researchers from the University of Bristol have discovered......»»
Prime Day in October: pack of 12 AA rechargeable batteries for $18
If you need to stock up on batteries, Prime Day is the perfect time. It might not be the most fun purchase, but it's cheap and practical......»»
Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas
New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New Wor.....»»
Oldest evidence of human cannibalism as a funerary practice
The remains of human bones with cutmarks, breaks and human chewing marks found across northern Europe show that some human groups living around 15,000 years ago were eating their dead not out of necessity, but as part of their culture......»»
Behold the world’s oldest sandals, buried in a “bat cave” over 6,000 years ago
Some basketry from same site is even older, dating back 9,500 years to Mesolithic period. Enlarge / Wooden mallet and esparto sandals from Cueva de los Murciélagos in Spain dated to the Neolithic period, 6,200 years ago. (credit.....»»
How much is too much? Lenovo’s spendy workstation can’t make the math work
The Lenovo ThinkPad P1 Gen 6 is an incredibly expensive portable workstation that doesn't offer much compared to laptops costing thousands of dollars less......»»
Hermit "scribblings" of eccentric French math genius unveiled
Tens of thousands of handwritten pages by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians, Alexander Grothendieck, many of which the eccentric genius penned while living as a hermit, were unveiled in France on Friday......»»
Evidence of the oldest hunter-gatherer basketry in southern Europe discovered
A team of scientists, led by researchers from the Universidad de Alcalá (UAH) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), has discovered and analyzed the first direct evidence of basketry among hunter-gatherer societies and early farmers in so.....»»
A new kind of chip for quantum technology
Today, we are living in the midst of a race to develop a quantum computer, one that could be used for practical applications. This device, built on the principles of quantum mechanics, holds the potential to perform computing tasks far beyond the cap.....»»
Practical tips for educators to support gender-diverse students
A new school year is here; are you ready? With the beginning of the academic year, many educators are preparing for the inevitable shift in their students' needs from the more relaxed summer months. Parents of transgender, gender-diverse and nonbinar.....»»
This simple log structure may be the oldest example of early humans building with wood
Researchers have uncovered a simple structure from the Stone Age that may be the oldest evidence yet of early humans building with wood......»»