When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem ...

Eeny, meeny, miny, mo, catch a tiger by the toe – so the rhyme goes. But even children know that counting-out rhymes like this are no help at making a truly random choice. Perhaps you remember when ...

Jeremy has more than 2200 published articles on Collider to his name, and has been writing for the site since February 2022. He's an omnivore when it comes to his movie-watching diet, so will gladly ...

If you’ve ever shuffled a deck of playing cards, you’ve most likely created a unique deck. That is, you’re probably the only person who has ever arranged the cards in precisely that order. Although ...

Why go through trouble of taking an IQ test when you've got chemistry at your disposal? Researchers at England's John Radcliffe Hospital, in Oxford, report that our brain's pH--how acidic or alkaline ...

Regarding the random loot and rewards available in each run, there are two primary schools in roguelites, each capable of birthing genre-defying gems. The Binding of Isaac, for instance, is a perfect ...

THE NEIGHBORHOOD — It is always interesting to see unlikely friendships in the animal kingdom. There are recurring examples, like oxpeckers that hang out on zebras' backs, eating parasites off the ...

According to mathematical legend, Peter Sarnak and Noga Alon made a bet about optimal graphs in the late 1980s. They’ve now both been proved wrong. It started with a bet. In the late 1980s, at a ...

Friend, a startup creating a $99, AI-powered necklace designed to be treated as a digital companion, has delayed its first batch of shipments until Q3. Friend had planned to ship devices to preorder ...

Bitcoin miners don't solve complex math problems - they guess numbers. While "solving mathematical puzzles" has become a common description of bitcoin mining, the process more closely resembles a ...