The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Simplex Trading, a Chicago-based firm, announced the appointment of Dennis Kerlin as its new chief compliance officer. The proprietary market-making firm works with advanced technology and software to ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Directional drilling is the controlled deviation of a wellbore from vertical to a planned three-dimensional trajectory (inclination and azimuth) to place the well precisely in the subsurface. This ...

To get the most miles out of your tires, you should know what kind of tires your car comes equipped with. Sure, every tire comes with rubber tread, but not every tire features the same pattern or ...

Earlier this month, NASA released a set of photos highlighting a newly arrived module for Gateway, a small space station that the agency aims to launch to lunar orbit in 2027. That module is HALO ...

Modern-day graphics processing units (GPUs) and other AI chips are massive. The unfortunate tradeoff is that they also consume an enormous amount of power, and their power needs are rising ...

Infection with HSV can cause oral or genital warts, but it can also be fully asymptomatic. There are two types of HSV: herpes type 1 (HSV-1), mainly spread through oral contact herpes type 2 (HSV-2), ...

The Cube 01 Standard Engineering Module, designed for flexibility and easy installation, offers scalable configurations and versatile mounting options for directional sound systems in various ...

When starting a virtual machine in VMware Workstation, we encountered an error that implied that the Monitor module had failed to turn on. Due to this, the machine ...

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 (CM5) takes modular computing to a new level, offering enhanced performance, expanded connectivity, and upgraded hardware. Designed with developers, hobbyists, and ...