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A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series’ episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough. https://media.wired.com/photos/5be625345d7c6a7b81d79e23/master/pass/Superpermutation_2880x1620-2880×1620.jpg
VCG/Getty Images Chicago-based M1 Finance made its investing platform free in December. Now its larger rivals are attacking the move as “desperate” and bad for wealth creation. Chicago-based investing startup M1 Finance made a bet that it could become a financial services juggernaut by charging its users nothing to use its platform. Now, some […]
Thursday night Wichita police killed Andrew Finch after responding to a call claiming a man at his address had shot someone and was holding others hostage. That call was a hoax, commonly referred to as “swatting,” and in this case, it’s apparently linked to a Call of Duty match, where one player passed a fake […]
Dr Graham Beards / Wikipedia Mallory Smith had an infection that wasn’t responding to antibiotics. Researchers at University of California, San Diego turned to Twitter for help in finding viruses that can go after bacteria. Smith is now waiting for the right virus to be pinpointed out of a set of 300, and will need […]
Jennifer McLean via AP BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A U.S. lawmaker says Chinese authorities have released an American college student who was arrested in their country a week ago after reportedly injuring a taxi driver who was roughing up his mother in a fare dispute. The office of Montana Republican Sen. Steve Daines says police […]
The dingy classroom at Cadi Ayyad University in Marrakech reminds me that there was a time when astronomers charted the skies with little more than math and passion. Sophisticated computer models have been developed to catalog pulsars and probe dark matter, but here in Morocco, in a dark room devoid of high-tech gadgetry, Khalid Barkaoui, […]
Korea: the land of ubiquitous plastic surgery that makes everyone seem forever 21. And yet … an ancient scent still lingers. In business, despite billions of taxpayer dollars showered on startups that numbered 31,189 in 2015, a handful of senile conglomerates — chaebols — like 78-year-old Samsung still dominate the South Korean economy. Into this […]
