"Fraudsters rely on urgency and fear to get people to act without thinking. Taking a breath, asking questions, and talking ...

Blaise Pascal is known for a number of things, but we remember him best for the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator. [Chris Staecker] got a chance to take a close look at one, which is quite ...

The Calculator app on your iPhone (and iPad) is capable of a host of numeric maneuvers. Beyond performing basic and complex ...

In a recent write-up, [David Delony] explains how he built a Wolfram Mathematica-like engine with Python. Core to the system is SymPy for symbolic math support. [David] said being able to work ...

‘As everyone gets ready for Christmas people are finding that their much-loved tubs of chocolate have further shrank with ...