Welcome to slot-machine Britain, where election day gives the people a chance to pull the lever on a one-armed bandit. Our bewildering range of outcomes emerges not so much from a belief that the ...

XRP extended its weekly rally on Friday, November 28, climbing another 1.5% on the daily chart as a number of bullish developments renewed the momentum. Notably, the token pushed above its 20-day ...

Researchers analyzed clinical data and RNA expression from the peripheral blood of 174 patients with gout and hyperuricemia that had been collected at week 48 of their participation in the STOP Gout ...

As a journalist who covers AI, I hear from countless people who seem utterly convinced that ChatGPT, Claude, or some other chatbot has achieved “sentience.” Or “consciousness.” Or—my personal favorite ...

Squaring — multiplying a number by itself — seems harmless, but repeat it long enough and it becomes a mathematical explosion. What begins as 2² quickly turns into 2⁴, 2⁸, 2¹⁶ — racing past the limits ...

The following machine contains an infinite loop and an unreachable final state (with this specific input). When tracing through this, the machine rejects after hitting the same state twice. I ...

A new report suggests that Dwayne Johnson is “heartbroken” over The Smashing Machine’s box office numbers. This report comes from insider Rob Shuter. On #ShuterScoop, Shuter said a source told him the ...

Dwayne Johnson’s latest film wasn’t exactly a “smash” hit. In fact, it was the lowest opening weekend of the blockbuster action star’s career. Johnson starred in “The Smashing Machine,” an arthouse ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...