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Ryanair’s low uptake for Prime underscores the limits of paid perks in a no-frills model, and shows that even the world’s most disciplined airlines can miscalculate demand. Ryanair has pulled the plug ...

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SCOTTSDALE, AZ — For more than a decade, Amazon Prime members could share their free shipping perks with people outside their household, but that option is now gone. As of October 1st, Amazon has ...

Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia, mathematicians have wondered if the prime numbers are truly random, or if ...

WASHINGTON — Starting Wednesday, Oct. 1, Amazon is ending a program that allowed Prime members to share their free shipping benefits with people outside their household. In an update to its customer ...