This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly math newsletter that’s delivered to your inbox every Tuesday afternoon. Sign up today and read it first. As a teenager, I spent countless hours ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the genius’s playground that was Bell Labs in the 1950s, Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, ...

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The brother of the late Princess Diana, Charles Spencer, has claimed in his forthcoming memoir that King Charles “sounded giddily elated – like a lottery winner” when speaking to him on the night of ...

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Jack Boylan, left, Allen Institute research associate, and Jesse Gray, AI BioDesign executive director of strategy and platform, at the DNA sequencer inside the initiative’s new lab. It reads millions ...

Automated email sequences are sent to users after they take specific actions, such as signing up for an email newsletter or completing a purchase. These perfectly timed and crafted emails may seem ...

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