Discover how the Luhn Algorithm verifies credit card accuracy, supports secure transactions, and helps prevent errors in inputting Social Security numbers.

If there's one saying that could sum up everything Wilt Chamberlain represented, it would be "the man, the myth, the legend." And that's not an exaggeration. He was an absolute freak of nature, one of ...

Landlords could no longer rely on rent-pricing software to quietly track each other’s moves and push rents higher using confidential data, under a settlement between RealPage Inc. and federal ...

An artist’s impression of a quantum electrodynamics simulation using 100 qubits of an IBM quantum computer. The spheres and lines denote the qubits and connectivity of the IBM quantum processor; gold ...

Satoshi’s 1.1-million-BTC wallet is increasingly viewed as a potential quantum vulnerability as researchers assess how advancing computing power could affect early Bitcoin addresses. Satoshi ...

Over the past three decades, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have managed to infuriate partisans on both sides of the political divide on countless occasions. They enraged ...

What if the key to solving humanity’s most complex challenges, curing diseases, creating sustainable energy, or even unraveling the mysteries of the universe, was hidden in the quantum realm? With its ...

Leslie Jones just explained why she thinks that Lorne Michaels needs to "search" for a new Saturday Night Live cast member right away. In 2018, Ego Nwodim joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, and ...

Miami Heat guard Terry Rozier, Portland Trail Blazers head coach Chauncey Billups and former NBA player and assistant coach Damon Jones were all arrested Thursday morning as part of a wide-ranging ...

In 2014, Halle Berry starred in the sci-fi series “Extant” where she played an astronaut struggling to conceive. Her husband, a robotics engineer, created a lifelike android whom the couple took in ...

O. Rose Broderick reports on the health policies and technologies that govern people with disabilities’ lives. Before coming to STAT, she worked at WNYC’s Radiolab and Scientific American, and her ...