Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

Greed isn’t always as obvious as someone hoarding stacks of gold like a modern-day dragon. Sometimes, it’s subtle, wrapped in polished manners, or cleverly disguised as ambition. The signs of greed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Abstract: Continuous influence maximization (CIM) in social networks aims to maximize the expected influence spreading by assigning each user a continuous weight reflecting the likelihood and cost for ...

Greedy people often take more than they need and don’t have much sympathy for the people they take from. There are several reasons for this, but one in particular is that greedy people will never ...

A man and his wife have gotten into heated arguments over who eats whose food. Prostock-studio - stock.adobe.com Sink your teeth into this. A man is in the hot seat because he refuses to share food ...

Abstract: With a widespread adoption of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) observations in Earth sciences, the volume of annual data updates has soared to petabyte scales. Consequently, the accurate ...

This week I interviewed Senator Amy Klobuchar, Democrat of Minnesota, about her Preventing Algorithmic Collusion Act. If you don’t know what algorithmic collusion is, it’s time to get educated, ...

The new dark comedy thriller aims for Coen-level crime in a small town, but tonal issues and a less-than-stellar script let Potsy Ponciroli’s new movie down. Darkly comic crime thrillers are a tricky ...

A sleepy East Coast community is easily corrupted by a handful of eccentric characters (including the likes of Traci Lords and Simon Rex) when an unclaimed bag of cash is found at a murder scene. This ...