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Month: August 2026

Math

How high scores in an online brain teaser made mathematicians lie for three years

August 26, 2026 Phys Org

It might not yet be the phenomenon that is Wordle, but for hundreds of thousands of players, Digit Party has scratched the itch of a casual brain teaser to break up their day.This article was […]

Internet

Meta, U.S. states agree $18 bn settlement in landmark teen safety case

August 26, 2026 Tech Xplore

Meta agreed to pay a coalition of U.S. states as much as $16.7 billion and to impose sweeping new limits on how teenagers use Facebook and Instagram, according to a court filing Wednesday that ends […]

Internet

Social media use on the rise among Australian under-16s after ban: Data

August 26, 2026 Tech Xplore

Australian under-16s are increasing their use of social media apps such as Instagram and TikTok despite a world-leading ban, data provided by a parental control software company showed Wednesday.This article was originally published on this […]

Computers

From X-ray speckles to solar magnetic fields, AI shrinks data while keeping crucial details

August 24, 2026 Tech Xplore

Next-generation science experiments will collect more data than ever—so much so that they’ll surpass the capabilities of current data storage and analysis methods. To help, researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory […]

Math

More than half of adults in US say they lack basic statistical understanding

August 21, 2026 Phys Org

From the daily weather forecast to a baseball player’s batting average to an individual’s risk of developing lung cancer, understanding statistics can help people in the United States navigate their lives, according to Mark Ramos, […]

Internet

Some of Meta’s safety tools were ‘designed to fail’: Witness

August 20, 2026 Tech Xplore

A former employee testified Wednesday that some of Meta’s safety tools for Facebook and Instagram were “designed to fail,” contradicting the company’s defense strategy in a landmark trial in California.This article was originally published on […]

Internet

The emerging threat of violent, exploitative digital ‘com networks’: what do we need to know?

August 19, 2026 Tech Xplore

For many parents, keeping their children safe online is a top priority. But now there’s an emerging threat: “com networks.” Com networks (short for community networks) are online groups that mostly target vulnerable young people […]

Math

Dice design solves board gaming’s most surprisingly complex problem—who goes first?

August 17, 2026 Phys Org

It took nearly 15 years, researchers around the world and enough computing power to search through a universe of possibilities to answer one question: Who goes first?This article was originally published on this website.

Math

Can math prove that Humpty Dumpty was simply mismanaged?

August 17, 2026 Phys Org

Humpty Dumpty had all the king’s horses and all the king’s men, but it wasn’t enough to put him back together again. This raises the question: How many horses and men did he actually need?This […]

Math

Quantum Latin squares cannot solve Euler’s 36 officers problem without entanglement

August 14, 2026 Phys Org

Latin squares are arrangements of symbols in a grid in which every symbol appears exactly once in each row and column. These symbol arrangements, which were first studied more than three centuries ago, are now […]

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