There is a new largest known primePanther Media GmbH/Alamy After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest known prime number, thanks to an amateur mathematics sleuth who deployed an army of graphics processing units (GPUs) to crunch through the possibilities. Prime numbers are those divisible only by 1 and themselves, such as 2, 3 and 5. There are an infinite number of primes, but proving which numbers are actually prime becomes harder the larger they get. We can now add 2136,279,841-1 to the list, which at 41,024,320 decimal digits long is the biggest prime number currently known. It…
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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s conservative ruling party braced for a blow to its comfortable majority in the lower house of parliament in Sunday’s elections as a result of public rage over financial scandals and discontent over a stagnant economy.According to exit polls by the NHK public television, Ishiba’s Liberal Democratic Party is certain to lose the majority in the 465-seat house, the more powerful of Japan’s two-chamber parliament. It’s still unclear if his ruling coalition with the junior partner Komeito can retain a majority.The results could weaken Ishiba’s grip on power and if he can’t get his party’s policies…
IEEE Life Fellow Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini, a Bell Labs researcher for more than 50 years, died on 17 September, 2023, at the age of 83.Foschini made groundbreaking contributions to the field of wireless communications that improved the quality of networks and paved the way for several important IEEE standards.In the early 1990s he helped to develop the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) method of using antennas to increase radio link capacity. A few years later he introduced the Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (BLAST) transceiver architecture, which advanced antenna systems by allowing multiple data streams to be transmitted on a single frequency.Foschini’s…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Profits at China’s industrial companies registered their steepest decline this year in September, as policymakers battle to restore confidence across the world’s second-biggest economy.Profits at large industrial companies fell by 27.1 per cent in September year-on-year, after a 17.8 per cent fall in August. The gauge, which is published by the National Bureau of Statistics, tracks firms with more than Rmb20mn ($2.8mn) in turnover. The figures come amid mounting pressure on Beijing to support the economy after a string of disappointing data…
In case you haven’t been keeping track of the Democrats’ tack these last few weeks of the campaign, the days of joy and vibes are mostly over. Instead, Vice President Kamala Harris and her surrogates have doubled down on the idea that former President Donald Trump is Literally Hitler™. As evidence for this, they’ve burnished several quotes, either with dubious sourcing or limited context. One of the quotes they’ve been leaning upon is Trump’s talk about an “enemy from within,” something that Harris has flipped out about on several occasions — notably during her Fox News interview: THEY’RE THE THREAT…
The Willis-Moore family has been known to display their tight family bond through thick and thin, and their three daughters are certainly continuing to share their familial love with the world!Bruce Wills and Demi Moore are still incredibly close after divorcing over two decades ago. The Brat Pack alumna is still standing by her former husband through his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis (FTD), giving insight into FTD’s impact on their family unit.The pair’s three daughters are also sticking by one another through life-changing experiences.Tallulah Willis recently revealed her autism diagnosis, sharing how her life has improved since her big news.Article continues…
Tedros lamented that “the whole health system in Gaza has been under attack for over a year”, since Hamas’s Oct 7, 2023 attacks inside Israel sparked the war.That attack resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Dozens of hostages are still held by militants in Gaza.Israel’s retaliatory campaign has killed 42,924 people in Gaza, the majority civilians, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.”WHO cannot stress loudly enough that hospitals must be shielded from conflict at all times,” Tedros said, saying…
Despite the US government’s incessant claims that it is working to secure a ceasefire, the genocide that has unfolded in Gaza over the past year has been a joint US-Israeli endeavour. Israel would not be able to inflict anything approaching the degree of violence it has on the Palestinian people without American weapons, intelligence, and political cover. To pursue these policies, the US government needed a critical mass of the American population to support or go along with its policy of working with Israel to exterminate the Palestinians. To sustain it, President Joe Biden’s administration has adopted a staunchly pro-Israeli narrative and sought to…
The new-look Golden State Warriors have come out of the gates smoking at the start of the 2024-25 NBA season. Golden State became the first franchise in league history to win its first two games by at least 35 points.On the surface, this appears like one of those useless records that receive extra hype on social media, but looking a little deeper, it could mean more than meets the eye. Although the NBA season is an 82-game marathon, this is the first time the Warriors have started 2-0 since their last title run during the 2021-22 campaign. That doesn’t mean…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I was fortunate to be exposed to the importance of the entrepreneurial spirit from a young age. Though I had no idea what an entrepreneur was or what they did, I was influenced by my schoolteacher parents, who involved my brother and me in our family’s side hustle: renovating homes.My parents came from humble backgrounds. My mother was homeless for part of her childhood, and my father was an immigrant who came from few resources. When they were married, a home represented much more than a place to live. It was safety…