Science & Math

In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, into orbit, kicking off the space race during the Cold War. What do you notice when you compare the weather of 1978 with ...

A Quantum Computer Picture Book Even Elementary School Students Can Understand

IntroductionThere are so many adults in this world who string together difficult words to talk about things as if they were ...

A story about teaching materials I bought and stopped using after one time, and a card game we played until the box broke

The teaching material we used the least in our home is the Kumon calculation cards.Addition cards, subtraction cards, and multiplication cards.Even though I went to the trouble of buying them, we ...
Scientific American

The most exciting claims from OpenAI’s heap of new proofs

Scientists have called out several math and computer science results as the most significant in the company’s overwhelming ...
current.fas.harvard

Evidence of board games building bedrock social skills

A recent study from the Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies describes how games aimed at improving social skills, ...
Education Week

How Play-Based Learning Helps Children Practice Math and Literacy Skills

While the amount of play in kindergarten classrooms across the country decreased in the 2000s and 2010s due to an increasing ...
CNET

A Patent Filed by Microsoft Would Let Games Use AI to Rewrite Themselves

Microsoft could use the new tech in upcoming Xbox games. Xbox Most narratively driven computer games don’t change much once they’re released to the public. But what if AI could change a game based on ...
TechCrunch

Roblox is making it easier to build games with AI — and play them outside Roblox

At its annual Roblox Developer Conference (RDC), the company behind the popular gaming platform announced several new features, including new game-creation tools, expanded NPC (non-player character) ...
Kotaku

Game Pass Will Start Capping The Number Of Hours You Can Use Cloud Streaming Each Month But Says Not To Worry Because This Will Only Affect 4 Percent Of Players

Right now, cloud streaming with Xbox Game Pass is unlimited. In November, that will no longer be the case. That’s when Microsoft is going to start setting monthly caps on cloud gaming usage, even for ...
Bloomberg

Designed for Addiction

Mobile-game developers are supercharging old tools with new tech to keep players hooked. Increasingly, the biggest money makers are deemed appropriate for children. n psychology, there’s a device ...
Interesting Engineering

Chinese doctor baffles math world by cracking decades-old problem using ChatGPT

Jin Shanmu is a postdoctoral researcher at the Peking Union Medical College in Beijing, China, and also the cynosure of mathematicians from around the globe after he proved the famous Crouzeix’s ...
XDA Developers

Someone made a system that loads their Steam games using floppy disks, and it's pretty genius

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...