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It might not be the big Bronco, but Ford's smaller Bronco Sport has tons of off-road cred.

Despite public reporting, Trump campaign is still keeping Jason Miller's $420,000 salary a secret — but why?

Since vaccines work by building herd immunity, a refusal to vaccinate among large segments of the population would deal a serious blow to any disease control strategy.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening statements from attorneys representing the social media company and respondents on Tuesday morning at 10 a.m. ET.

Spacious, 2+2 bedroom bungalow has two, separate family rooms, fireplaces and skylights

The lighting mavens at Cree Lighting are pushing further into the smart home with the launch of the Connected Max line, a series of bulbs available in both dimmable (but not tunable) white and color-changing options. Color bulbs are available in BR30, PAR38, A19, and (unusually) A21 form factors. The tunable white is only available as an A19 bulb.

Leslie Brody’s Sometimes You Have to Lie is the second biography we have of Louise Fitzhugh, the author of the beloved children’s novel Harriet the Spy. The other appeared in 1995 to little fanfare. Its author was the intriguingly named Virginia L. Wolf, a writer whose only other published book is a reading companion to Little House on the Prairie. The lack of public information on Fitzhugh is a bit confounding, not least because her claim to fame is a novel about collecting as much information on people as possible. Читать дальше...

The United States has a political class that mistakes its professional norms for ethics. Mainstream political journalists mindlessly grant anonymity to professional liars. Elected officials put collegiality and institutional procedure over the needs and interests of their constituents. And as for lawyers, they have refined this tendency into what amounts to a religion of self-justification.

“We’re working on the line and shoulder-to-shoulder. We have no space on the line, in the break-room, and in the lockers,” Sarah Seibert, who debones hams at a Smithfield’s Food plant in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, told the Worker Institute at Cornell University in a May interview about the workplace conditions she faced at the start of the pandemic. “When I heard the first person get sick in the plant. Before the first person gets sick I heard about social distancing and wash your hands. I emailed... Читать дальше...

This year marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of publication of Black Metropolis, St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton’s landmark study of Chicago. Black Metropolis appeared as World War II neared its end, with U.S. political leaders fiercely debating the best ways to bring about civilian reconversion and reconstruction. Drake and Cayton recognized that the outcomes of those debates would be critical for their fellow black Americans in the postwar decades. A pair of other influential studies published around the same time... Читать дальше...

Politicians’ refusal to admit when hospitals are overwhelmed puts a terrible burden on healthcare providers.

The Nest brand has built up a considerable collection of smart home hardware, and starting next year, that hardware is getting a new feature. All Google Nest devices will soon be supported in the Samsung SmartThings app.

Early Charm Ventures, which specialises in turning scientific discoveries made at universities into companies focused on growth, has joined Stronger America Through Seafood (SATS).

Nielsen plans to do away with its current commercial ratings by 2024.

Plus, watch Publicis' holiday video and Revlon gets a new CMO.

The lighting mavens at Cree are pushing further into the smart home with the launch of the Cree Connected Max line, a series of bulbs available in both dimmable (but not tunable) white and color-changing options. Color bulbs are available in BR30, PAR38, A19, and (unusually) A21 form factors. The tunable white is only available as an A19 bulb.

As Kotaku recently reported, a racist line of dialogue in the Monster Hunter movie led to thousands of negative online reviews in China, review bombing of the game on Steam, and calls to ban the film. The movie’s producers have now apologized.

Swedish studio Front has collaborated with Italian brand Moroso to translate elements in nature into amorphous furniture items using 3D-scanning technologies. The Design by Nature furniture collection, which comprises six seating objects, is designed to mimic various objects typically found in the wilderness, such as branches and rocks covered with moss, lichen and algae. Front

Serverless computing offers the promise of applications executed as event-driven compute cycles, whereby your code runs only when triggered by a request. Subscribers to this paradigm can save money by paying only for compute time actually used instead of maintaining a virtual or physical server. Users also are spared from having to manage infrastructure.  

Azure’s Cognitive Services are a quick and easy way to add machine learning to many different types of applications. Available as REST APIs, they can be quickly hooked into your code using simple asynchronous calls from their own dedicated SDKs and libraries. It doesn’t matter what language or platform you’re building on, as long as your code can deliver HTTP calls and parse JSON documents.

Edge computing is picking up steam. According to this recent report by Turbonomic (requires registration), nearly 50 percent of organizations use or plan to use edge computing in the next 18 months.

After three months of rebound, the US IT job market reversed course in November, shedding 8,300 jobs. That loss follows a 9,300-job gain in October, a 13,500 gain in September, and a 4,500 gain in August. For the year, the net loss of US IT jobs now stands at 81,100, still down from a peak high of 102,900 job losses this year as of August, according to the most recent survey of IT executives by management consultancy Janco Associates. 

I've been talking about the future of the "desktop" on the cloud for years now. Starting around 2012, I predicted Chromebooks would become a big deal. Then I saw Windows moving from PCs to a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model beginning in 2017. (I had the timing wrong, but was right in general.) What I didn't see coming were Macs to the cloud.