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Read More »Ocurate Raises $3.5M
Ocurate, a startup using artificial intelligence to predict customer lifetime value for e-commerce businesses, took in an oversubscribed seed round of $3.5 million. Backers in the round include 8-Bit Capital, DCF Capital, Data Community Fund, AIX Ventures, Italmobiliare, Streamlined Ventures and some individual strategic angel investors like Adam Metzger and …
Read More »Physicists Unprecedented Precision
Physicists have performed an improved measurement of the free neutron lifetime using the UCNτ apparatus at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center. Their results, published in the journal Physical Review Letters, represent a more than two-fold improvement over previous measurements. Gonzalez et al. report an improved measurement of the free …
Read More »Free Neutron’s Lifetime
To answer the big questions, sometimes we must look to the very small. Researchers at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center’s Ultracold Neutron Source, within Los Alamos National Lab, have been passing the cryo-baton for more than a decade, working at ever colder temperatures in order to study the behavior …
Read More »Dangerous? Great? Foolish? The Real Scoop on Lifetime Annuities
Annuities have a strange reputation. Some people think they are a great way to guarantee income in retirement. Other people think of them as a bad investment. So what’s the real scoop on lifetime annuities? Forget everything that you might have heard about lifetime annuities: “They’re great, they’re dangerous, they’re …
Read More »Majority of Lifetime ISA savers plan to use money for retirement
Nearly a third (30%) of people aged between 18 and 39 plan to save in both a workplace pension and Lifetime ISA when the Lifetime ISA launches next year, new research has revealed. According to workplace pension provider NOW: Pensions, 16% of 18 to 39-year-olds said they will continue to …
Read More »Young and middle earners most positive about Lifetime ISA and pension reforms
Middle and high earners are most likely to feel that last year’s pension reforms and the recently launched Lifetime ISA have made it easier to save for retirement, new research has revealed. According to Skipton Building Society, almost half (46%) of those with household earnings of more than £35,000 say …
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