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In 1946, the mathematician Paul Erdős posed the unit distance problem—and suggested a winning strategy. An A.I. model has now ...

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Keir Starmer’s UK election landslide in 2024 came after a series of Conservative governments marked by scandal, chaos and a budget problem with no easy fix. Two years later, the Labour prime minister ...