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Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports

There’s only three guarantees in life. Death, taxes, and the Cavs losing in Miami.

in 1989, Christian Laettner was very good but nowhere near the legend he would soon become.

A typically intense Duke-UNC face-off.

In the Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, 70-year-old Kuniko Tsusaka recounted how her mother always had a Game Boy nearby to play Tetris. But when her mother turned 95 and her health started to suffer, her Game Boy stopped working.

Every technology organization today seems to practice the agile methodology for software development, or a version of it. Or at least they believe they do. Whether you are new to agile application development or you learned software development decades ago using the waterfall software development methodology, today your work is at least influenced by the agile methodology.

Microsoft’s Cognitive Services, powered by machine learning, are an easy way to add artificial intelligence to your apps, offering pay-as-you-go access to a selection of useful algorithms. Unlike many other Web services, they’re continuously evolving, improving as they ingest more and more labeled data.

The application container market is set to grow from $762 million in 2016 to $2.7 billion by 2020. This according to 451 Research’s latest Cloud-Enabling Technologies Market Monitor report. Despite only being a small portion of the overall cloud technologies market, application containers will see the hottest growth, estimated at 40 percent through 2020.

It’s back when 5-inch floppy disks roamed the Earth, and a customer service tech sends a software update to a customer known to be a bit more than a little computer-challenged, says a pilot fish in the know. This involves physically mailing a stack of disks to the customer, along with a note saying to call the tech when she’s ready to install the update.

Microsoft last week launched Office, a new mobile app for iOS and Android that the company slid into an already packed line-up of individual apps.

On the “Writer’s Voice” podcast, Deborah Treisman hosts the author Adam Levin, who reads his story “Kid Positive,” from the March 2, 2020, issue of The New Yorker.

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ARCHAEOLOGISTS made advances in China over the Terracotta Army, which could completely rewrite the history books.

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There are two different assessments with complex rules

First things first: The beer’s cold and the tent’s warm.

David Axe

Security, Middle East

Iran’s conventional weaponry is hopelessly out of date, and the country’s leaders know it, according to one expert. But conventional military inferiority hardly fazes Tehran. Iran has found other ways of exerting influence on the world.

Key point: Iran’s proxies arguably are even more dangerous.

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