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One day in November, a product strategist we’ll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told ...

It’s July 2025. After a week of building tensions between Russia and the United States, following what seems to be a failed meeting between Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Donald Trump posts an oddly ...

Feast Week can be overwhelming. There are games morning to night. Literally non-stop ball. It's a glorious sight and bit of sensory overload. Nearly every single contender has been tested in some way ...

ABSTRACT: Multi-objective optimization remains a significant and realistic problem in engineering. A trade-off among conflicting objectives subject to equality and inequality constraints is known as ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X NEW YORK — After a long day at work, you rush to pick up your child from a playdate with a new ...