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 ...

The urgency of addressing climate change has never been clearer. Emissions of planet-warming gases are at record highs, as are global temperatures. All that extra heat is endangering people around the ...

Employees at ibex gather at a recent awards night recognizing the company’s top performers. It’s nearly impossible to work in corporate America today and not touch some manner of technological ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Serial technology CEO covering all things IT & Tech. In August 2024, Intel sent shockwaves through the market by announcing a 15% ...

To get one of the hottest jobs in tech, Deborah Martinez Castellanos didn’t need a bachelor’s degree. She needed a flair with a screwdriver—and a high tolerance for artificial lighting. The ...

Palmer Luckey was an executive at Facebook when he first spoke with venture capitalist Trae Stephens about starting a weapons company. “I’m actually building a ramjet in my swimming pool,” Luckey told ...

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems ...

The race is on to generate new technologies to ready the battery industry for the transition toward a future with more renewable energy. In this competitive landscape, it’s hard to say which companies ...

Michael Suswal’s first eye-opening encounter with the vibrancy of San Francisco came in 2017. That’s when he and his fellow co-founders of Standard AI, an artificial intelligence startup funded by the ...

It’s a wrap for CES 2024! We told you AI would be the loudest buzzword at the show, finding its way into all kinds of consumer tech, and we were right. AI was everywhere, but the future isn’t only AI.

Key trends and developments poised to shape the tech world in the coming decade In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, one thing is for sure: Change is constant. As we look ahead to the next 10 ...