A common problem all retail stores face is shoplifting. Billions of dollars are lost each year to this widespread issue. Though adolescents may be slightly more likely to shoplift than adults, the ...

This holiday-themed brainteaser looks simple, but it's quietly tripping up adults everywhere I’ve been out of school for decades, and I don’t spend my days solving equations (I’m more of a word person ...

As the management was leaning hard into AI CAPEX, spending ~$90 billion in cash CAPEX YTD and projecting ~$125 billion expected for full 2025, it created an "AI CAPEX problem" that drove the narrative ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

When it comes to hard problems, computer scientists seem to be stuck. Consider, for example, the notorious problem of finding the shortest round-trip route that passes through every city on a map ...

If you’ve recently received a message claiming there’s an issue with your Amazon account, you’re far from alone—and there’s a strong chance the alert isn’t real. On November 25, 2025, Amazon sent a ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is editor-in-chief of The Verge, host of the Decoder podcast, and co-host of The Vergecast. Let’s talk about AI ...

At the 2024 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), one competitor did so well that it would have been awarded the Silver Prize, except for one thing: it was an AI system. This was the first time ...

This detailed summary shows some of the issues that caused the October 20th outage and took swaths of the internet offline for roughly 15 hours. Amazon says its changes in response include temporarily ...

On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services’ cloud hosting, which had impacted millions across the Internet, had been resolved. Popular apps like Snapchat, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - An Amazon web server outage that began just after 3 a.m., caused major internet problems across the globe for several hours Monday. The outage impacted many apps and websites; ...