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The Pirates have shifted way more in 2020 than they ever have in the past.

Why did an American city beset by inequality and dysfunction face the onset of the pandemic so well? Because history left it ready for this moment.

The New York City subway system makes an announcement at every stop: “Please step aside, and let the customers off the train first.” The public transit riders, the city insists, are customers before they are New Yorkers; they have a right to the train because they have paid $2.75 for their tickets. Every few minutes, the message chimes again, a reminder that public services are not really public at all.

In 1979, Barry Goldwater turned to his diary to register a change in the nation’s politics. “Today as I sit in the Senate,” he wrote, “it is interesting to me to watch liberals, moderates, and conservatives fighting each other to see who can come out on top the quickest against those matters that I talked so fervently and so much about in 1964.” That year, Goldwater had been thoroughly crushed in his presidential contest with Lyndon Johnson, earning only 52 electoral votes against LBJ’s 486 and less than 40 percent of the popular vote. Читать дальше...

Almost a quarter of 11,000 Canadians surveyed said they plan to work from home more often a year from now.

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When space is at a premium, it’s time to get creative.

Stand-up comedian Tig Notaro knows all too well how humor can help you overcome adversity.

Listeners ask the host of How To! to solve their problems. What happens after the tape stops rolling?

“My wife says to drop it because any conversation will look racial in nature.”

Twenty years after her moment in the Hollywood spotlight, the famed water-safety activist has not slowed down.

From cradle through childhood to parenthood and near middle age, Millennial lives have been shaped and stymied by policing and prisons.

Lord Hague sets out three-point plan to remove Nicola Sturgeon and save the Union  Daily ExpressView Full coverage on Google News

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The Penguins may have missed out on Alexis Lafrenière, but there is still news to be reported around the team and the rest of the NHL.

For content creators, a laptop with a built-in SD card reader is a preferred feature. Some users go so far as to consider laptops only if they have a reader.

AI detection watches for newborn sleep risks such as rollovers, back sleeping, and a covered head.

1. Wearing a neck gaiter may be worse than no mask at all, researchers find  The Washington Post
2. 14 coronavirus face masks, ranked: Which are most effective against spreading COVID?  SILive.com
3. Neck gaiters may actually increase COVID-19 transmission, study finds  Yahoo Lifestyle
4. Duke University face masks study: Some masks may be worse than no mask at all in slowing spread of COVID 19  WLS-TV
5. Scientists tested 14 types of masks: Here's what worked and what didn't... Читать дальше...

Residents fear they will not be able to return to their homes for several months after a number of properties were flooded by a burst water main.

Of the 14 masks and other coverings tested, the Duke University study found that some easily accessible cotton cloth masks are about as effective as standard surgical masks, while neck gaiters may be worse than not wearing a mask at all.

Only a few years ago, when we talked about infrastructure we meant physical infrastructure: servers, memory, disks, network switches, and all the cabling necessary to connect them. I used to have spreadsheets where I’d plug in some numbers and get back the specifications of the hardware needed to build a web application that could support thousands or even millions of users.

As 2021 begins to appear on the horizon, most people will be happy to see 2020 in the rearview mirror. Despite the pandemic and all its chaos and uncertainties, 2020 was the year of the cloud. Pandemic-weary enterprises rushed to the cloud for safety, scalability, and agility.

WILLIAM Hague has set out a three-point plan to remove Nicola Sturgeon from power in a bid to save the union.