Our monkey brains didn’t evolve to understand big numbers without some help. So when you run into an abstract figure, it’s good to have some real-world thing to compare it to. That’s why I memorize a ...

Microsoft is rolling out some enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha has developed a technology ...

Having read–and even written–that Wolfram Alpha is some sort of cyber wonderbrain, I must say that now that I am using it I feel a bit underwhelmed. I do not know what I was expecting, but an online ...

According to a report by the New York Times, Apple's voice-controlled personal assistant Siri accounts for nearly 25 percent of the traffic handled by search engine Wolfram Alpha. Joe Aimonetti ...

Stephen Wolfram says a large-scale traffic simulation test failed, which puts the planned Friday debut of the new online tool in question. Two supercomputers--one of them the 66th fastest in the world ...

Search engines are useful, but they just serve up matches to keyword-based queries — they don’t actually answer questions. Even a natural-language Google query like “What is the biggest city in Africa ...

Wolfram Alpha, a major computational knowledge engine providing technology for major services such as Apple’s Siri assistant, is integrating data from the Cardano blockchain. According to a Thursday ...

Microsoft is rolling out some enhancements to its Bing search engine, including some that rely on computational information delivered by Wolfram Alpha. Wolfram Alpha has developed a technology ...