An additional 3,400 machetes have been surrendered by major retailers, and a further 10,800 weapons have been seized by police so far this year. Since being introduced across police stations in ...

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 ...

Council chiefs say motorists are outsmarting speed cameras with crafty 'ghost plates' that make their cars undetectable to the law. The illegal plates, also known as 3D or 4D plates, reportedly bounce ...

ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell couple came home from vacation to an unsettling surprise — a four-foot python hiding under their deck. “I saw it out of the corner of my eye, and I look over, and it’s right ...

The gaming world rarely sleeps, but when it erupts in controversy, the ripple effects can be felt across every corner of the internet. Enter PeterBot, the 18-year-old Fortnite prodigy whose career ...

The VP of engineering at a leading technology company stared at the quarterly adoption metrics with growing frustration. Twelve months after rolling out a state-of-the-art AI coding assistant—a tool ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Getting rid of furniture isn’t easy, especially if it’s big and bulky like a mattress or box spring. Well, guess what? Thanks to a new program, it’s easy and free — that is, if you ...

We all lose our gadgets every once in a while. Finding them isn’t always straightforward, especially if they have been stolen or left behind in a different place. Likewise, if it’s nestled between the ...

The adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in U.S. classrooms has accelerated rapidly over the past year, with double-digit growth in the number of students using AI tools for schoolwork, according ...