From machine learning to voting, the workings of the world demand randomisation, but true sources of randomness are ...

E-challans are a new technology used by traffic police in India to issue fines when someone breaks traffic rules. Instead of writing a paper challan, the police use a small machine to generate an ...

The Americans With Disabilities Act, passed in 1990, was meant to make life fairer for people like Stein. The law required public and private institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to ...

If your bank keeps tossing you between customer care numbers and branch desks, the Reserve Bank of India now lets you ...

Wisconsin has shown that it’s cost-effective and completely possible to keep families together by stabilizing their housing. That’s not the only promising development in the field.

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

Social Security numbers track earnings and aid in managing bank and credit accounts. Originally linked to geographic locations, these numbers are now assigned randomly. Investors use Social Security ...

A new definition of obesity could dramatically increase the number of Americans considered obese. Under the new definition, the prevalence of obesity rose from around 40% to nearly 70% among more than ...

If you’ve ever wondered, even briefly, whether you have obesity, you might want to double-check right about now. New research suggests that over two-thirds of Americans are considered obese under ...

A new study has proposed the existence of Planet Y, an alternative Planet Nine candidate that is smaller and closer to Earth than the hypothetical Planet X, which astronomers have been hunting for ...

MARGAO: On Friday, OHeraldo brought to light the plight of litigants in Salcete, who are demanding the government to establish a system to handle revenue cases and hold employees of Mamlatdar’s ...