The world’s longest 3D-printed concrete pedestrian bridge has been completed in Shanghai. Designed by Professor Xu Weiguo from the Tsinghua University (School of Architecture) - Zoina Land Joint Research Center for Digital Architecture, the 26.3-meter-long bridge was inspired by the ancient Anji Bridge in Zhaoxian, China.
Much has been written—a lot of it by me, admittedly—about how Apple’s commitment to let iOS developers bring their apps to macOS in 2019 has the potential to dramatically change the Mac. But adding iOS apps to the Mac might not be where Apple stops. What if the company uses macOS 10.15 (or, dare I suggest, macOS 13?) to further unify the interfaces of its platforms?
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Gaming Today's Bookies Battle the Point Spreads Conference Championships | The Nation's top casino bookmakers pick the point spread winner of every NFL game.
Winning Strategies | The goal when you gamble is to win the most money, not the most hands.
VIP Bettin' On B-Ball | One team that catches my eye in the East is Indiana. Through Monday, the Pacers had the third-best record in the East and the fifth-best record overall, 28-14.
VIP Pigskin Picks | For a sixth consecutive season the Super Bowl will feature a pair of teams seeded either No. 1 or No. 2 in their respective conferences.
The soon-to-be Las Vegas Raiders are feeling more like they’re at home.
Two Free Picks from the Pigskin Picks column | For a sixth consecutive season the Super Bowl will feature a pair of teams seeded either No. 1 or No. 2 in their respective conferences.
Lindo Report | Accelerate, based in California and trained by John Sadler, had a campaign that makes him the logical Eclipse Award winner for Horse of the Year.
The origin of in-game bets in Las Vegas is commonly traced back to Cantor Gaming’s emergence a decade ago.
The guidelines that the American Heart Association (AHA) issued for maintaining cardiovascular health may also reduce the risk of diabetes.
Ten years ago today, Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji died of her injuries sustained while running a reaction with tert-butyl lithium in the laboratory of Professor Patrick Harran at UCLA. My thoughts and prayers are with her friends and her family.
Big tech companies now trade at one of the smallest premiums in history.
On Monday 21 January, Sir Robin will be taking to the Sailing Stage in Hall 15 at 14:30 (UTC+1) to talk about his record-breaking achievement ahead of its 50th anniversary in April this year.
“Honestly I can’t believe this documentary—there’s two of ‘em.” Against the strains of “Build Me Up Buttercup,” this is how the Hulu documentary Fyre Fraud draws to a close. The disbelieving individual in question is Oren Aks of Jerry Media, the marketing firm that promoted Fyre Festival, the stupidest disaster in the annals of millennial hubris. He’s right; there are. Hulu dropped its documentary about the ill-fated festival on Monday, gazumping a Netflix documentary on the same subject slated for release on January 18. Читать дальше...
In the wake of Bernie Sanders’s loss to Hillary Clinton in the 2016 Democratic primary, some people argued that, as Vanity Fair put it, he “won in the end” because his race had “a profound, and lasting, effect on his party.” This was not a fanciful idea. The Vermont senator’s “revolution” had succeeded beyond progressives’ wildest expectations, pushing the party leftward on health care, climate change, economic redistribution, and foreign policy. Since Barack Obama’s ascendance, no other politician... Читать дальше...
David Axe
Security, Asia
A DPRK artillery barrage could inflict as many as 250,000 casualties in Seoul alone, RAND reported, citing a U.S. Defense Department estimate.
By 2020 the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) could possess as many as 100 nuclear warheads, allowing it to pursue war strategies that could hold the Republic of Korea and the United States hostage to the threat of devastating atomic attack.
But North Korea's conventional weapons pose a major threat of their own... Читать дальше...
A controversy within a professional organization illustrates how well-intentioned people can undermine their own goals.
Publicly traded tech companies now trade at one of the smallest premiums in history.
With every passing day, America’s defenses are weakening.
They need to do more than reject his foreign-policy rhetoric—they need to break with its substance.
Edge gateways have emerged as architectural components that improve the performance of IoT networks, and vendors have stepped up with off-the-shelf devices flexible enough to meet the varying demands of individual deployments.
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It’s mid-January, and we have our first anime meme of the year, with a Naruto still being reworked for internet fodder.
When Tyler Holley’s high school art teacher made his class complete a project at the Toledo Museum of Art, he made a stunning discovery: The museum was a place to relish.
Sen. Rob Portman (R., Ohio) is reintroducing — for the fifth time since he was first elected to the Senate in 2010 — a bill that would eliminate federal government shutdowns.