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Canadians should brace themselves for an increase in scam emails and robocalls during the upcoming tax season, despite increased government efforts to crack down on illegal call centres.

The popular online review site contains dozens of listings for illegal marijuana stores in Los Angeles, NBC News found.

COLUMBIA, SC - MARCH 24: RJ Barrett #5 of the Duke Blue Devils drives against Tacko Fall #24 of the Central Florida Knights in the second half during the second round of the 2019 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament at Colonial Life Arena on March 24, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina. | Photo by Lance King/Getty Images

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In the wake of Iowa’s caucus vote-counting disaster, political staffers and pollsters alike are reconsidering the state’s “first in the nation to vote” status. The quaint caucuses and infamous fry-forward state fair could disappear were Iowa were to be dethroned. But so too could one of Iowa’s largest industries, which has managed to carve out an outsized role in debates over renewable energy: ethanol.

If the news in the hours after the Trump administration assassinated the Iranian military leader Qassem Soleimani felt like the six months leading up to the Iraq War squeezed into one evening, then the weeks after the killing resembled, with uncanny absurdity, those events played backward. We watched Mike Pence attempting to link Soleimani to September 11 and Mike Pompeo describing Iranians dancing in the streets—even as video showed many of them mourning—and we listened to the administration’s ever-shifting explanations for the strike. Читать дальше...

Are we on track for a catastrophe, or a meltdown? This somewhat gnat-straining debate has emerged around new modeling, some of which suggests that a much-dreaded “worst case scenario” of five degrees celsius of warming by 2100 is less likely than previously thought, and some of which suggests exactly the opposite.

Via Bethany Halford at C&EN, this unusual story of academic chemical manufacturing (emphasis mine):  

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Injuries have taken their toll, Pettersson looks to be paired with Schultz, and Jared McCann has found a home. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!

One is more musical, but the other makes a better smart home controller. Which attribute is most important to you?

Flume is a smart leak detector that will save you money—even if it never detects a leak.

AMD’s 64-core CPU officially went on sale Friday, and early reviews of AMD’s flagship high-end desktop processor give the chip very high marks—assuming you can make use of it.

How the president deals with mogul Ihor Kolomoisky may define his wider anti-corruption aims.

Shares in Elon Musk’s pioneering electric car company Tesla have skyrocketed.

The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.

For The Atlantic’s March cover, David Brooks makes a powerful and provocative argument that “The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake.” His story is an examination of  the shift over the past century from a familial structure that prized interconnected extended families, with grandparents upstairs and aunts across the street, to one that idealizes detached nuclear families—and how this structure has been a catastrophe for many, namely children and lower-income Americans.

The recalcitrant star—who won his first Oscar last night for Joker—turned industry recognition into an opportunity.

The triumph of Parasite, and its director’s many heartfelt speeches, flipped a predictable-seeming ceremony into must-see live television.

We have three ways to return data and HTTP status codes from an action method in ASP.NET Core. You can return a specific type, return an instance of type IActionResult, or return an instance of type ActionResult. 

Devops came about because of the cultural, functional, and technical walls between development teams that want to release frequently and operations teams that need to preserve reliability and stability. Devops culture addresses the mindset, collaboration, and practices to achieve both objectives, and devops practices—including continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), infrastructure as code (IaC), and AIOps, which leverages machine learning in application monitoring, enable the implementation. Читать дальше...

Avenue Supermarts pipped Bajaj Finserv in terms of market capitalisation (m-cap). The stock zoomed 11 per cent during the session to hit a fresh 52-week high of Rs 2,537 on the BSE

(Telecompaper) The top five technology companies operating in the UK - Google, Cisco, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple - paid a combined total of GBP 237 million in...

Jurassic Park is without a doubt one of the most iconic cinematic releases of all time, which is why we're making it our Film of the Week!

The days of enterprise security being a separate entity from mobile and desktop endpoint management are coming to an end, which should delight infrastructure and security teams who’ll eventually have more powerful machine learning-enabled tools at their disposal – and a single console through which to control them.

User calls this help desk pilot fish and says, “I deleted a file and I need it back.”