Abstract: Many engineering design optimization problems can be represented as mixed-variable optimization problems. This study presents a heuristic approach for solving mixed-variable optimization ...

Brandee Gruener is a digital editor and writer with 20 years of experience. Her articles on gardening, homes, food, and health have appeared in Hunker, American Gardener, and other national and ...

Kyle Tucker batted .259 with one home run during the postseason. Michael Reaves / Getty Images For a Chicago Cubs team that hadn’t seen playoff baseball for five years, hadn’t played a postseason game ...

The race for faster, more efficient chips has reached a new milestone. Scientists at Shanghai’s Fudan University have unveiled the world’s first full-featured 2D flash chip, an engineering feat that ...

Terminator 2D: No Fate — the new retro game that blends scenes from Terminator 2: Judgment Day with original scenarios and multiple endings — has once again been delayed, this time to November 26, ...

Super Mario Bros. 2 is seen as the black sheep of Mario games series. Released in 1988 for the NES and in 1992 for Japan, some players were sure they had played it before. They’d be correct, as the ...

Super Mario’s 40 year history is a testament to all the different ways you can make a little guy run from left to right across a screen. Nintendo’s line of 2D Mario platformers has gone through three ...

From cel animation to stop motion and 3D, the best animation styles can captivate audiences, but which one is for you?

Unification: Otary offers a cohesive solution for image and geometry manipulation, letting you work seamlessly without switching tools. Readability: Self-explanatory by design. Otary’s clean, readable ...

Benjamin Claeys is CEO of QR TIGER, MENU TIGER and GiftLips. He also hosts Stay QRious, a podcast about QR code best practices. Barcodes have been a staple of commerce since the first UPC barcode was ...