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TOKYO, Dec 19 (Reuters) - The Bank of Japan raised interest rates on Friday to levels unseen in 30 years, taking another landmark step in ending decades of huge monetary support and near-zero ...

Amazon Q Developer is a useful AI-powered coding assistant with chat, CLI, Model Context Protocol and agent support, and AWS expertise. When I reviewed Amazon Q Developer in 2024, I noted that it was ...

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Calculating the interest rate on a personal loan can be difficult. Most lenders use simple interest rather than compound interest, though, which makes the job a little easier. To calculate how much ...

If you have a savings account, you might want to know how much you’ll earn in interest for parking your cash there. Fortunately, calculating interest on a savings account is not as tough as you might ...

Qwen Code’s Qwen3-Coder model doesn’t seem as good as its benchmark scores imply, but the tools are free and the usage limits are generous. The three biggest hyperscalers in the US are AWS, Microsoft ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Imagine that someone gives you a list of five numbers: 1, 6, 21, 107, and—wait for it—47,176,870. Can you guess what comes next? If ...

It will kick back in on Aug. 1 for people in the SAVE repayment program, whose payments have been on hold since last summer. By Tara Siegel Bernard The U.S. Education Department said on Wednesday that ...

Iran’s nuclear program has been a long-standing problem. Many US presidential administrations have struggled with it, as have many international organizations and foreign governments. To help makes ...