“This puts down a marker for the state to make clear that we’re modernizing our tax structure,” says Justin Marlowe, public finance expert. The Illinois budget passed June 1 includes new taxes on ...

A French multinational, Schneider Electric, decided to use artificial intelligence in manufacturing to make workers more productive, rather than to replace them. Here’s how that’s going. A French ...

The blockbuster game Minecraft depicts a world created by cubes: everything is made of discrete building blocks. It may therefore seem particularly unsuitable for calculating pi (π), the mathematical ...

My small beast has turned into the Incredible Velcro Cat this week, ever since I got back from Costa Rica. (Oops, I guess I’m supposed to say “hook and loop ...

If you’ve recently been told something is “cap,” that someone has “no aura,” or that a situation is “cooked,” you are not alone. You may, in fact, be linguistically outmatched by your child. Across ...

New census data show gains for same-sex couples, but there’s still work to be on done around fair housing and other issues. In 2024, the census recorded 1.4 million same-sex couple households, which ...

When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...

Food expiration dates like "use by" and "sell by" are not federally regulated for safety and generally indicate peak quality. There are no universally accepted definitions for these labels, with ...

Consumers often assume “use by,” “best by” and “sell by” have fixed definitions and are used consistently across the food industry. In reality, there are no uniform or universally accepted definitions ...

Here’s a question that I think lots of people in higher education may be confronting over the next few weeks: What should we do with the personal statement for graduate admissions? I’ve now seen ...

This code displays a colorful Julia Fractal. It uses the kandinsky and math modules. This code displays a text output of the Mandelbrot fractal. The text is colored, to achieve this the kandinsky ...