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50 home hacks that solve everyday problems faster than you think

Liz Fenwick shares 50 practical home hacks designed to tackle common household frustrations. In this wide-ranging guide, she demonstrates quick fixes, organizational shortcuts, and simple upgrades ...
The Guardian

‘They surprise me every time’: bees can use tools to solve problems, study finds

Insects join list of species capable of solving simple ‘box-and-banana’ problem that demonstrates basic intelligence Bumblebees can use tools to solve a problem, according to experiments that ...
Scientific American

Bumblebees use tools to solve complex problems—despite not being trained to do so

Contrary to their name, bumblebees are no bumbling oafs. A new study published in Science on Thursday found that these bees utilized tools to solve complex problems to win a sugary treat, even if they ...
Mashable

AI is fueling Reddit's spam problem

UPDATE: Jun. 4, 2026, 3:38 p.m. EDT — This article has been updated with a statement from Reddit. In recent years, brands and spammers alike have been using Reddit to manipulate AI chatbots by ...
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...
NewsNation

Using AI for just minutes reduces focus and persistence, new study warns

A study conducted by scientists from Carnegie Mellon, Oxford, MIT and UCLA found the technology can affect cognitive function and problem-solving abilities in a relatively short period. “We show that ...
acm.org

I Spent a Year Asking AI to Solve Math’s Hardest Problem. Here’s What Happened

It started almost by accident. At my startup Dwelly, I constantly push the limits of what AI tools can actually do. One day I just typed into a chat: “Can you prove P ≠ NP?”—referring to the problem ...
CNBC

The Tech Download: How chip companies are looking to use light to solve this major AI bottleneck

Skip the noise. Get the download. AI companies are increasingly looking to photonics technology as a solution to improve the inefficient transfer of data between AI chips and systems. Photonics tech ...
IEEE

An Efficient Method for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem Using Modern Optimization Algorithms

Abstract: Metaheuristic algorithms have demonstrated strong effectiveness in solving complex real-world optimization problems. This paper presents two discrete metaheuristic approaches for the ...
GitHub

cuPDLPx: A GPU-Accelerated First-Order LP Solver

cuPDLPx is a GPU-accelerated linear programming solver based on a restarted Halpern PDHG method specifically tailored for GPU architectures. It incorporates a Halpern update scheme, an adaptive ...
IEEE

Solving Multiobjective Combinatorial Optimization via Learning to Improve Method

Abstract: Recently, neural combinatorial optimization (NCO) methods have been prevailing for solving multiobjective combinatorial optimization problems (MOCOPs). Most NCO methods are based on the ...