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Alberta holds one of the world’s most ravaged regions. In the north of the Canadian province, a vast sprawl of industry the size of Florida has been erected to haul tar sands from beneath the forests, desiccating the land in pursuit of profitable oil, which in turn warms the planet and destroys its ecosystems. The Indigenous peoples who live among these gray wastes have a powerful word to describe what has long been happening to them. “If we don’t have land and we don’t have anywhere to carry... Читать дальше...

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General managers have inquired about Bryan Rust, but Rutherford says he isn’t available. Let’s hope it stays that way.

This video doorbell offers some advanced image-detection features, including facial recognition, but it needs better sensitivity control.

This month Studio Ghibli launched galleries for some of its most famous films—a total of four hundred high-quality screenshots.

As information and processing needs have grown, pain points such as performance and resiliency have necessitated new solutions. Databases need to maintain ACID compliance and consistency, provide high availability and high performance, and handle massive workloads without becoming a drain on resources. Sharding has offered a solution, but for many companies sharding has reached its limits, due to its complexity and resource requirements. A better solution is distributed SQL.

Spam filtering, face recognition, recommendation engines — when you have a large data set on which you’d like to perform predictive analysis or pattern recognition, machine learning is the way to go. The proliferation of free open source software has made machine learning easier to implement both on single machines and at scale, and in most popular programming languages. These open source tools include libraries for the likes of Python, R, C++, Java, Scala, Clojure, JavaScript, and Go.

The Snowflake IPO was a big deal, and not merely because of the company’s enormous valuation.

The GOP has challenged Democrats to a street fight. They can’t act like it's a tea party, Dahleen Glanton writes.

It’s not just the season of autumn, it’s election season, six weeks that stretch before us like an eternity and a nanosecond, weeks that risk being a nonstop brawl. So today, we turn to a time-honored anxiety management tool, the to-do list.

This pilot fish’s post-college job for a credit card company largely involves typing data from telemarketers into a database and then printing out stacks of reports every night.

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent shift to working from home have brought about numerous technological disruptions, many centered around how organizations deliver IT services to their workforce. Technologies that were dabbled in before, like videoconferencing, have suddenly become standard practice.

Photo by George Wood/Getty Images A quick primer on our Carabao Cup opponents. Liverpool travel to Lincoln for a third-round Carabao Cup tie. For Liverpool fans, we’re expecting the senior backup players to get a run out, and maybe we’ll see new signing Diego Jota make an appearance. What about …

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Françoise Mouly talks to the artist Bob Staake about his cover “Icons,” which appears in the October 5, 2020, issue of The New Yorker and honors Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Daniel A. Gross writes about a short documentary directed by Sara Joe Wolansky and edited by Brian Redondo, which follows three M.T.A. subway-train operators in the year after their respective involvements in deadly collisions.

Alex Ross on the environmental costs of streaming-music services like Spotify and Kyle Devine’s recent book, “Decomposed: The Political Ecology of Music.”

Benjamin Wallace-Wells writes about Kamala Harris’s recent campaign stop in Philadelphia, and about the Biden-Harris campaign’s strategy for winning Pennsylvania in the 2020 Presidential election.

As a care home faces up to a locked-down winter it has revealed its plans for a pop-up pub where relatives and residents can safely meet.

A Homeland Security spokesperson said Wolf was unaware of the contracts until contacted by the media. Wolf's Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.

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Or, an argument against sacrifice.

1. ‘You can win this!’: how Beto O'Rourke is becoming Joe Biden’s greatest ally  The Guardian
2. Trump campaign cash advantage evaporates  CBS News
3. Trump mocks Biden for 'blowing cash on surgery' only to cover face with a mask  The Sun
4. Can Arizona save the nation?  The Washington Post
5. Biden's six best bets in 2016 Trump states | TheHill  The Hill
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Educators have gotten creative, forming virtual learning classrooms of our own, where we share resources and strategies

The pandemic has brought a new focus to our living spaces and how they affect our health — and sleep

Michael Hall

Security, Middle East

U.S. policy toward Syria is defined by an absurdity that can’t be neatly untangled—a low-intensity regime change mission defined as anything other than its central mission.

James Mattis famously resigned from his secretary of defense post citing opposition to President Donald Trump’s order to remove U.S. troops from Syria. So it came as a mild surprise when it was recently confirmed that Mattis opposed a plan to assassinate Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria. Читать дальше...

WHEN Mark Wright posted his adoring tributes to wife Michelle Keegan for her 33rd birthday earlier this month, fans couldn’t help but comment on how cute the couple were.  “Most gorgeous couple ever!”, “So gorgeous…” and “So perfect together and so well suited” were just some of the comments that flooded the Essex lad’s Instagram […]