Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.

The Babylonians used separate combinations of two symbols to represent every single number from 1 to 59. That sounds pretty confusing, doesn’t it? Our decimal system seems simple by comparison, with ...

Off-grid, modular, and seaworthy: KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and partners intend to produce synthetic fuels on a floating platform using wind energy, seawater, and ambient air. For this ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Researchers have developed what they’re calling “nanofibrous blankets” that float on contaminated water and use ordinary sunlight to break down pollutants. These lightweight, ...

I made this for a class where we regularly had to convert numbers between different bases, and I wanted a quick way to check my work. For number, you can use decimal (positive, negative, or fractional ...

A new JavaScript obfuscation method utilizing invisible Unicode characters to represent binary values is being actively abused in phishing attacks targeting affiliates of an American political action ...

Optimizations in programming have mostly been associated with more efficient data structures or algorithms. Any optimization that uses hardware resources explicitly is generally considered premature, ...

The option to create a nonbinary character in video games is a relatively new one, although it has increased in popularity as each year passes. Role-playing game Dragon Age: The Veilguard is one of ...

The latest iPadOS 18 offers a new tab bar now floats at the top of the screen, so you can jump to different parts of an app at the press of a button. You can also customize the floating tab bar in ...

Abstract: The zero-suppressed binary decision diagram (ZDD) is a compact data structure widely used for the efficient representation of families of sparse subsets. Its inherent recursive structure ...

Dr. James McCaffrey from Microsoft Research presents a full-code, step-by-step tutorial on using the LightGBM tree-based system to perform binary classification (predicting a discrete variable that ...