PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

In 2026, required minimum distributions (RMDs) will begin for anyone who turns 73. RMDs are a way for the IRS to receive taxes after granting an up-front tax break. The initial penalty for missed RMDs ...

Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti has lost track of what really should matter in his job. / Talia Sprague-Imagn Images When the Big Ten championship game kicks off next month, commissioner Tony ...

While presidents are always a dominant influence over the political parties they lead, that sway tends to fade toward the end of their tenures if they serve two terms. This is why they are typically ...

My generation is letting artificial intelligence do the thinking — or too much of the thinking — for us. As a teenager, I have seen friends and classmates lose the will to learn because they can “just ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Sergio Mendoza Hochmann / Getty; Pierre Michaud / Gamma-Rapho / Getty. With respect to Andrews, in the midst of all this—the testosterone-addled executive branch ...

A group of math teachers in Tucson, Arizona, came under fire for their Halloween costumes this weekend. The teachers’ bloodied white t-shirts with the phrase “Problem solved” written across the chest ...

Groundbreaking research published in The Lancet suggests that most people who believe they’re sensitive to gluten are actually reacting to other factors like FODMAPs or brain-gut dynamics. The study ...

In August, President Trump said Intel agreed to give the U.S. government the stake a week after he spoke with CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Photo: Annabelle Gordon/Bloomberg News Importance—for national security, ...

Quantum computers are built to tackle problems that push past what human minds, and even our best supercomputers, can manage. That power raises a simple but tough question: when a quantum device spits ...

China’s increasingly powerful military has bracketed Taiwan with exercises. Its air and naval forces launch daily incursions, and Beijing has erased the unofficial maritime border between them. Yet, ...

What if the next new mathematical discovery didn’t come from a human mind, but from an AI? Imagine a machine not just crunching numbers but proposing original solutions to problems that have baffled ...