Vietnam’s population hit the 100 million milestone. Where’s it headed?

Rising population growth should slow in the coming decades and see a decline in the second half of the century.

Prehistoric plague could have caused population collapse in Stone Age Europe

Did a major epidemic of plague trigger a prolonged collapse in Europe's population in late Neolithic times—from around 5,600 ...

Urban growth may slow by 2100, leaving big cities smaller than expected

The world is urbanizing fast. In 1975, about 11% of the global population lived in cities with more than 1 million ...
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Primal-Dual Strategy for Composite Optimization over Directed Graphs

Abstract: We introduce a distributed optimization framework for directed graph networks that addresses composite objective functions with smooth local components and a shared convex regulariser. Our ...

Beyond the Focus Group: Unlocking Deep Consumer Insights with AI Market Research

Learn how synthetic populations disrupt traditional focus groups. Discover Verve's People Models and run predictive brand ...