The European Central Bank raised interest rates for the first time since 2023. It expects inflation to run hotter than previously thought, and downgraded its forecast for economic growth. By Eshe ...

The Federal Communications Commission is launching a review of the E-rate program, which funds K-12 broadband connectivity, to “ensure it fulfills Congress’s vision for great educational outcomes,” ...

Place any number of dots on a two-dimensional plane—say, a piece of paper—and measure the distance between each pair. If you rearrange the dots, how many pairs could be positioned exactly the same ...

Social Security’s finances may be in worse shape than thought. The Social Security Trustees — who release a report each year on the health of the program that supports about 70 million retirees and ...

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AI can rifle through enormous libraries of information to connect far-flung ideas—conceptual leaps remain a purely human skill. The planar unit distance problem, or Erdős problem 90, has intrigued ...

Last week, OpenAI shocked the mathematical community by revealing that one of its internal artificial intelligence (AI) models had found a counterexample to a famous conjecture made by legendary ...

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The policy worked because the CPI gradually moved closer to 2% in the years that followed, and the Fed has now cut interest rates six times since September 2024. But that progress is now in jeopardy ...

The time of the day that you use electricity at home could determine how expensive or inexpensive your power bill is. Seattle City Light launched a new rate option called “Time of Use” for residential ...