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Undeterred after three decades of looking, and with some assistance from a supercomputer, mathematicians have finally discovered a new example of a special integer called a Dedekind number.Only the ninth of its kind, or D(9), it is calculated to equal 286 386 577 668 298 411 128 469 151 667 598 498 812 366, if you're updating your own records. This 42 digit monster follows the 23-digit D(8) discovered in 1991.Grasping the concept of a Dedekind number is difficult for non-mathematicians, let alone working it out. In fact,…

Verizon is narrowing its search for a new finance chief and focusing on outsiders who could later transition to become a candidate for the wireless company’s next chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter. Verizon is narrowing its search for a new finance chief and focusing on outsiders who could later transition to become a candidate for the wireless company’s next chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of…

The wait is almost over. In just a few hours from now, Apple will kick off its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2023. The event will start with the keynote session hosted by CEO Tim Cook at 10:30 PM IST. The event is going to be one of the biggest in recent history with some major announcements expected including iOS 17, a new 15-inch MacBook Air, Mac Studio, the new M2 Ultra chipset, a mixed-reality headset and its accompanying operating system xrOS, and more. And that's why the excitement around the event…

Valve has released a new update to the Steam store search that will make the process of searching for particular games easier now.The Steam store search bar will now return matches for tags, developers, publishers, and franchises as long as they are reasonable matches. For example, users can now search for categories like "RPG" or "zombies" and it will return several results.Users can also search for specific publishers. Searching for companies like "Square Enix" or "Sega" will show the publisher's hub in…

The bone that researchers found belonged to an ancient individual that the Wrangell Cooperative Association named Tatóok yík yées sháawat (Young lady in cave). Credit: University at Buffalo The first people to live in the Americas migrated from Siberia across the Bering land bridge more than 20,000 years ago. Some made their way as far south as Tierra del Fuego, at the tip of South America. Others settled in areas much closer…

The European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, or JUICE mission, lifted off from Earth on its way to examine three moons of Jupiter that are believed to contain subsurface oceans. But it will take follow-up missions to determine whether life exists in those alien watery realms.While the search for habitable Earth-like planets around other stars continues, alien worlds much closer to home may also harbour life. But they are nothing like the Earth, and life forms would likely be found deep within them, not on their…

Parking, image by Dall-E 2.An introduction to optimal stopping and how it relates to data scienceIn our everyday lives, we are often faced with the challenge of making decisions that have significant consequences. Whether it’s choosing a career, searching for a parking spot, buying a house, or even deciding who we want to spent the rest of our lives with, we are constantly evaluating and weighing different options. One strategy that mathematicians use to approach decision-making is called “optimal stopping”.In this post,…

Sophie Duncan did not call her book Looking for Juliet, possibly because that was the name of a Pirelli calendar featuring film stars posed as exquisite, death-obsessed goths. This is just one of the artefacts Duncan, a fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford, analyses in her invigorating cultural investigation of Shakespeare’s heroine, reaching back to his source texts, forward to Taylor Swift’s song Love Story, and beyond.Juliet enacts a “stunning rebellion against a society that deems her the property of her parents” when…

Chinese scientists are searching for signs of the world’s most elusive particles. The search has taken these scientists almost a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, where they hope to catch glimpses of these subatomic particles called neutrinos.  Neutrinos are special particles that spend most of their time not interacting with the rest of the world around them. In fact, tens of thousands of neutrinos stream through our planet and our bodies every second, only occasionally interacting with other atoms. When…

If you’re looking for super cheap laptop deals, HP has a great one right now. Today, you can buy an HP 14-inch laptop for $250 instead of $450 so you save $200 off the regular price. It’s a basic laptop but if you simply need something to be able to browse online, write a few documents, and check email, it’ll do the job. Likely to be only on sale for a brief time, here’s what you need to know. Why you should buy the HP 14t HP is one of the best laptop brands at the moment so even at this price, you’re still getting…