The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine a town with two widget merchants. Customers prefer cheaper widgets, so the merchants must compete to set the lowest price.

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As a Jew and a New Yorker, Norman Needleman said he finds the city’s mayoral election “painful.” Waiting in line Friday to vote on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, the 77-year-old Needleman thought Zohran ...

ABSTRACT: A new nano-based architectural design of multiple-stream convolutional homeomorphic error-control coding will be conducted, and a corresponding hierarchical implementation of important class ...

SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt (ABC22/FOX44) – Back in 1925, traveling salesman Ed Needleman discovered the beauty of the green mountain state while on a trip with his brother in Newport. Needleman eventually ...

Part of providing pronunciation feedback involves aligning a target phonemic sequence (the sounds made by the actor reference) with the user phonemic sequence (the sounds the user makes when trying to ...

Jake Peterson is Lifehacker’s Senior Technology Editor. He has a BFA in Film & TV from NYU, where he specialized in writing. Jake has been helping people with their technology professionally since ...

Abstract: The Needleman-Wunsch algorithm is a global sequence alignment algorithm that has traditionally been used for DNA, RNA, and protein sequencing. Image comparison is used in multiple ...

WASHINGTON — The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has received a $20 million donation from the family of Philip Needleman, a member of the NAS and the National Academy of Medicine who passed away in ...

Consumer finance watchdog’s headcount reportedly at about 12% as internal memo calls for focus on mortgages, big banks It might not be quite as drastic a cut as one that would leave only “five men in ...