Neowin News Feed for: Maths

Incredible math helps track your location without even revealing it

Sayan Sen — Thu, 15 May 2025 19:32:01 +0000

Mathematics has a very interesting way to track the location of someone or something without actually fully revealing it. Read more...

A near 200 year old math problem has finally been cracked

Sayan Sen — Tue, 13 May 2025 14:16:01 +0000

A couple of smart scientists have finally managed to crack a mathematics problem that is nearly 200 years old. Read more...

Duolingo wants to teach more than languages and its starting with maths and music

Paul Hill — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 05:08:01 +0000

Duolingo has announced that it's bringing maths and music lessons to its app. The new subjects will first arrive for iOS users before expanding more widely. The subjects can be accessed in the app. Read more...

OpenAI develops LLM that uses a chain of thought like humans

Paul Hill — Wed, 31 May 2023 21:50:01 +0000

OpenAI is currently researching process supervision, a method for reducing the number of hallucinations produced by LLMs. It has had success with maths datasets but needs to be tested generally. Read more...

Aussie maths whiz supercharges net

Mon, 05 Nov 2007 14:29:28 +0000

An Australian researcher is on the road to riches after discovering a way to make broadband connections up to 100 times faster. University of Melbourne research fellow Dr John Papandriopoulos is in the throes of... Read more...

Maths to bring e-commerce to its knees

Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:01:10 +0000

As we speak, there is speculation amongst the maths community about one of its most cryptic questions. Why are prime numbers prime numbers? What defines there seemingly random pattern? The question is called the Riemann... Read more...