A stressful job that can’t be quit. A relationship that’s as painful as it is loving. Life serves up many problems with either no solution or only imperfect solutions that seem either just as bad or ...

The conventional wisdom holds that entrepreneurs should identify unsolved problems and create novel solutions. But that approach misses where the real leverage exists right now. Established industries ...

In November 1988, a graduate student at Cornell University named Robert Morris, Jr. inadvertently sparked a national crisis by unleashing a self-replicating computer worm on a VAX 11/750 computer in ...

In at least two cases, the AI tool was “able to construct an original and valid proof” to unsolved conjectures.

The Fast Company Impact Council is an invitation-only membership community of top leaders and experts who pay dues for access to peer learning, thought leadership, and more. BY Fred Turner During the ...

At least once a week someone comes to me with an unexplainable, random problem that they begin to think might be malware-related. Some of the scenarios are almost laughable. Here's one I heard this ...

A seemingly impossible math puzzle, discovered stuck to a tree by a passing hiker, has left the internet well and truly stumped. Despite living in an increasingly digital world, math remains something ...

Every plumbing company has problems. Some are internal and largely in the control of the owner. Others are external and owners often feel helpless in the face of them. In truth, you have more control ...