The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Lindsey Ellefson is Lifehacker’s Features Editor. She currently covers study and productivity hacks, as well as household and digital decluttering, and oversees the freelancers on the sex and ...

Among all the names considered to play Neo in The Matrix, Will Smith is the one everyone remembers — and honestly, it’s easy to see why the studio wanted him so badly. By the late ’90s, he was a ...

A bankruptcy court awarded Alcon the derivative rights to Village Roadshow's film library after Warners' higher bid was rebuffed. The studio is considering an appeal. By Winston Cho In May, ...

There are few video game skills as memorable as Max Payne’s bullet time. The trick brought the thrill of 1999’s The Matrix to video games, letting players slow down time and send Max flying through ...

The leading approach to the simplex method, a widely used technique for balancing complex logistical constraints, can’t get any better. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at the ...

Abstract: Simplex-structured matrix factorization (SSMF) is a common task encountered in signal processing and machine learning. Minimum-volume constrained unmixing (MVCU) algorithms are among the ...

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a ...

Until now, the early phase of drug discovery for the development of new therapeutics has been both cost- and time-intensive. Researchers at KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) have now developed a ...