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 ...

Google is rolling out new Gemini-assisted functionality to Search and its Translate app. It says its AI can now provide more natural and accurate text translations for phrases that have more "nuanced ...

With several winter storms now under our belt, the North Dakota Highway Patrol has taken to social media to promote safe driving as hundreds of roadway incidents have taken place due to unsafe driving ...

Being named Dictionary.com's Word of the Year for 2025 might give the slang term "67" some street cred, but how effective are such slang words when used in marketing? A University of Texas at Dallas ...

Passwords are the first line of defense in protecting access to the finances, credit information, and identities of our businesses and personal lives. But collectively, most Americans do a pretty ...

Teens typically use mogging as a compliment, a way to call out a peer for their superior haircut or sense of style. The term originated on manosphere, an online community that often misogynistic ideas ...

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...

California has always been a trendsetter when it comes to food culture, and the lingo that comes with it is just as colorful as the dishes themselves. If you spend enough time in California kitchens ...

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 ...

Etymology Nerd Adam Aleksic says that teens use slang as a way to build identity. (Photo illustration: Victoria Ellis/Yahoo News; photo: Alefiyah Gandhi) In his videos, Aleksic speaks in an ...

Adam Aleksic wants to make “linguistics cool again.” That may sound decidedly uncool, but the Harvard-educated linguist, influencer and author of Algospeak: How Social Media is Transforming the Future ...

A choir teacher is going viral after she asked students to write a song using their favorite slang words including "6-7," “skibidi” and "slay" among others. TODAY’s Jenna Bush Hager shares the Morning ...