Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price. Unhappy with their meager profits, they meet one night in a ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

“If mutual funds didn’t exist today, would they have to be invented?” asks manager John Neff of the Akre Focus mutual fund. “I think the answer is very uncomfortably ‘no.’” ...

The largest reverse mortgage lender in the country, Mutual of Omaha accounted for over 22% of the market in 2024. It offers both FHA-backed Home Equity Conversion Mortgages (HECMs) and a proprietary ...

An artificial-intelligence algorithm that discovers its own way to learn achieves state-of-the-art performance, including on some tasks it had never encountered before. Joel Lehman is at Lila Sciences ...

OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) - The Mutual of Omaha Tower is now the tallest building in Nebraska. A release from Mutual of Omaha says the completion of the 44th floor of the Mutual of Omaha Tower has made the ...

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The researchers say the new algorithm, dubbed Quantum Echoes, is a breakthrough because it achieves quantum advantage while being the first such algorithm that can be verified independently by running ...

Google's Willow chip has achieved a verifiable quantum advantage, running a new algorithm 13,000 times faster than the best supercomputers. This breakthrough, named Quantum Echoes, can explain atomic ...

Liberty Mutual is a mutual company owned by policyholders, not shareholders. It is not publicly traded, which prevents direct stock investment. To invest in related sectors, consider stocks of ...

Networks are systems comprised of two or more connected devices, biological organisms or other components, which typically share information with each other. Understanding how information moves ...

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