An engineer for New York Times Games has been trying to teach artificial intelligence to understand wordplay more like a human. By Shafik Quoraishee Shafik Quoraishee is a machine-learning engineer ...

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The answer for Wordle #1653 on Sunday, December 28, 2025, is: The double “B” is what made today’s puzzle harder than it looked. Once you see it, everything suddenly makes sense. If today’s Wordle felt ...

UC San Diego is trying to solve a math problem. The university said a growing number of students are starting their freshman year lacking high school math proficiency. KPBS reporter Jacob Aere says ...

Addis Ababa, December 8, 2025 (ENA)—The 20th Nations and Nationalities Day was colorfully celebrated today in the city of Hoseana, in the Central Ethiopia Region, in the presence of Prime Minister ...

If you fancy yourself as a budding sleuth, hacker or code-breaker, GCHQ has released its annual Christmas challenge and is encouraging people to try and crack the puzzle. Featuring designs from ...

Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a grueling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Dimitri Sirota is CEO and cofounder of AI Security and Privacy startup BigID, and a privacy, security and identity expert. Some of the biggest risks inside a company ...

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Good news for nerds – a new study has revealed that clever men make the most faithful and loving partners. Researchers from Oakland University have discovered that men who are better at working out ...