Guterres warns against erosion of international law and cooperation Multilateralism under assault, secretary-general says, amid global conflicts, US funding cuts Guterres prioritizes AI governance to ...

This paper investigates the one-dimensional cutting stock problem considering two conflicting objective functions: minimization of both the number of objects and the number of different cutting ...

The rapid growth (and partial retreat) of “they” and “them” has gotten a lot of attention in recent years, but English is hardly the only language that has been experimenting with a gender-neutral ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN Business’ Nightcap newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. The annual World Economic Forum confab known as Davos has always had an optics ...

Rio Tinto chief Simon Trott inherited a bunch of long-standing problems when he took charge of the miner last year, but a deal with Glencore could solve all of them if structured in the right way. Rio ...

There are many excuses for failing to tax the ultra-wealthy. The truth is that governments don’t tackle the problem because they don’t want to There is one political problem from which all others ...

Scientists may have just made a breakthrough in the field of in vitro fertilization (IVF)—one that could sidestep a well-known pitfall for some women who undergo the procedure. In a preliminary study ...

Earlier this year, San Jose politicians announced they were targeting the thousands of abandoned shopping carts clogging creeks and blighting streets. Now the first data on a pilot program aimed at ...

Allan Sun is a software and systems engineer at Apple, where he works on real-time system software and infrastructure for Apple’s in-house 5G modem silicon platforms (C1X), one of the company’s most ...

Uber faces a major lawsuit from the FTC and 21 US states, accusing the company of deceptively enrolling users in its Uber One subscription without consent and creating a deliberately difficult ...

Berkshire Hathaway faces plenty of challenges as Warren Buffett steps down later this year, but higher executive turnover and a narrowing of the premium the stock has enjoyed under the “Oracle of ...