Math Stories for 2013

GNU Octave Gets a GUI 166
Polynesians May Have Invented Binary Math 170
Surge In Litecoin Mining Leads To Graphics Card Shortage 213
New Education Performance Data Published: Asia Dominates 263
Ask Slashdot: How Reproducible Is Arithmetic In the Cloud? 226
Putting the Wolfram Language (and Mathematica) On Every Raspberry Pi 99
Mathematicians Team Up To Close the Prime Gap 194
Ask Slashdot: Can You Trust Online Tax Software? 237
Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? 328
Weak Statistical Standards Implicated In Scientific Irreproducibility 182
A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core 663
A MathML Progress Report: More Light Than Shadow 84
Network Scientists Discover the 'Dark Corners' of the Internet 99
Debunking the Lorentz System As a Framework For Human Emotions 124
Barbarians At the Gateways 321
Linux RNG May Be Insecure After All 240
Extreme Complexity of Scientific Data Driving New Math Techniques 107
When Does the Universe Compute? 182
The STEM Crisis Is a Myth 284
Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus 134
US Electrical Grid On the Edge of Failure 293
MIT Research: Encryption Less Secure Than We Thought 157
Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? 385
Microsoft's Math-Challenged STEM Education Contest 96
Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts 240
McAfee Exaggerated Cost of Hacking, Perhaps For Profit 105
Hollywood's Love of Analytics Couldn't Prevent Six Massive Blockbuster Flops 1029
Evolution of AI Interplanetary Trajectories Reaches Human-Competitive Levels 52
J.K. Rowling Should Try the Voting Algorithm 128
Math and Science Popular With Students Until They Realize They're Hard 580
How Old Is the Average Country? 375
LibreOffice Calc Set To Get GPU Powered Boost From AMD 211
Australian Air Force's Recruiting Puzzle Shown To Be Unsolvable 113
UnGrounded: British Airways Attempts to Bottle Some Startup Spirit 128
Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture 216
Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? 656
Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability 202
Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics 215
Major Advance Towards a Proof of the Twin Prime Conjecture 248
Firefox Is the First Browser To Pass the MathML Acid2 Test 134
IBM Researchers Open Source Homomorphic Crypto Library 130
New Study Suggests No Shortage of American STEM Graduates 344
Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? 203
Terrible Advice From a Great Scientist 276
Statistical Errors Keep 4700 K-3rd Students From NYC 'Gifted' Programs 215
Extended TeX: Past, Present, and Future 300
How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse 204
Pierre Deligne Wins Abel Prize For Contributions To Algebraic Geometry 55
10 Ways To Celebrate International Pi Day 180
Full Review of the Color TI-84 Plus 233
You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer 185
Taking a Hard Look At SSD Write Endurance 267
Estonian Schools To Teach Computer-Based Math 77
New Largest Known Prime Number: 2^57,885,161-1 254
Australian Economists Predictions No Better Than Flipping a Coin 290
Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math 589
Google Pledges Pi Million Dollars In Pwnium 3 Prizes 60
Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing 162
Scrabble Needs a New Scoring System 202
Khan Academy Will Be Ready For Its Close-Up In Idaho 102
Buffalo Bills Going the Moneyball Route With Analytics 94

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