Long gone are the days when most workers lived within walking distance of the businesses where they made their livings.

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(THE CONVERSATION) Among high school students and adults, girls and women are much more likely to use traditional, step-by-step algorithms to solve basic math problems – such as lining up numbers to ...

Agent memory remains a problem that enterprises want to fix, as agents forget some instructions or conversations the longer they run. Anthropic believes it has solved this issue for its Claude Agent ...

Near, far, wherever you are (Celine Dion gets it), finding long-distance relationship gifts is never easy, especially during the holiday season. If you’re not able to be together this winter, ...

Folks using melatonin supplements as a sleep aid might be putting themselves at risk for future heart problems, a new study says. Adults with insomnia who'd been using melatonin for a year or more had ...

Taking melatonin for long periods of time could be a sign of underlying heart problems. Long-term use of the popular over-the-counter sleep aid has been linked to a higher risk of heart failure and ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Progress in the foundations of physics is moving slowly. And yet it moves. Today I look at the five biggest problems in physics, what their status is, and how long it will ...

Jim Kreemer was making $1.85 an hour working at the rendering plant in Long Prairie when he and his wife decided to leave her parents’ dairy farm and move into town. It was the early 1980s, and they ...

The actual numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed over 1.9 million Americans have been out of work for 27 weeks or more, as of this August. That’s around double the figure for early 2023.