Yet again, making me wish I owned a gun, yet glad I don't, since I'd shoot these motherfuckers in a heartbeat.

'Researchers are developing computers capable of "approximate computing" to perform calculations good enough for certain tasks that don't require perfect accuracy, potentially doubling efficiency and reducing energy consumption.'

George Lucas (Verb) Lucasing, Lucased (a) The act of committing graphics overkill.

Yeah I tried that "no honey, it's an ID verification device" line before too.

I wish the best of luck to whoever gets to model the behavior of a mixed (mostly) nonpolar gas interacting with a dense, more or less randomly packed, array of 240nm spikes, composed of some sort of complex biological polymer arrangement, at the boundary of the (already complex enough) interaction between an insect wing and the surrounding fluid.

Now James Maynard has upped the ante by presenting an independent proof that pushes the gap down to 600. A new Polymath project is in the planning stages, (...) to push the bound even lower.

The reason is that the weather station network covers only about 85% of the planet

and the world championship measures more your ability to present an impregnable wall of defensive ability and be unbeatable.

Worst headline ever.

Mankind had many thousands of years to try to do things before we had a written history, and everyone likes to believe those cultures were oblivious.

If the US can't find sixty billion dollars a year to spend on airport security but can find one trillion dollars a year to spend on blowing the crap out of foreign countries, the US needs better accountants.