Researchers developed a Wordle-solving strategy that succeeds 99% of the time by focusing on information gain rather than likely answers. The method uses Shannon entropy to identify guesses that ...

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Chatbots are far more predictable in their responses than you might expect. That's fine for research or coding, but it's a problem if you're looking for something new.

Xbox Game Pass and the Counting Crows share a mantra: You don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. Microsoft's games-on-demand service regularly adds new games to its library, but it just as ...

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Encryption systems rely on “random” numbers, but conventional computers can’t generate them perfectly. New research shows that quantum physics can. By Alexander Nazaryan Researchers in Switzerland ...

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I seriously wonder how many of the hand crank people have ever actually lived with a car that had hand crank windows. As someone who grew up with hand crank windows on an assortment of '60s Pontiacs, ...

The results of Round 1 of CNET's Big Guessing Game are here, and only one person got the second question right. Dashia is the consumer insights editor for CNET. She specializes in data-driven analysis ...