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It’s been almost two months since former Vice President Mike Pence narrowly escaped a violent mob of Trump supporters in the Capitol building that wanted to lynch him for betraying the former president. Pence largely stayed quiet in the days and weeks that followed. He made an appearance at President Joe Biden’s inauguration. And then he journeyed to the Virgin Islands for a brief vacation.

By March 2020, there was no denying that the mysterious virus that had ravaged the city of Wuhan—and placed large parts of China in varying levels of quarantine—had arrived in the United States. Curious to know what we could expect from life under lockdown, The New Yorker’s editor David Remnick interviewed Peter Hessler, one of the magazine’s contributors who was teaching in Chengdu that year, about how everyone there was adjusting to this new reality. At one point, Hessler remarked how funny... Читать дальше...

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The Penguins’ defensive depth is proving its worth, several players are back at practice, and the team has a new partnership. All that and more in today’s Pens Points!

Everybody wants to know how well their laptop performs, but usually for different reasons. Was that high-end processor you optioned worth the extra money? Can your inexpensive clamshell run the latest, hottest PC games? Is it time to give up on that old laptop for something with a little more capability? A good way to find out is to run a few benchmarks.

Live sports streaming without cable could get less expensive thanks to gambling.

The amount of Pokémon branding in Japan is intense. And with the arrival of these fishing lures, it seems the pocket monsters can be slapped on just about anything.

Try asking IT for data on the development, test, production, and disaster recovery environments in the data center and public clouds like AWS or Azure. It’s a straightforward question, yet answering it accurately and without going through a time-consuming audit is difficult for many IT operations departments.

As cloud computing, containerization, devops, and microservice architectures have established themselves as the building blocks for modern application development, the need for a simple way to manage those resources for internal software developer teams has become more and more important.

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Leafs move right onto the Canucks. Will they survive it.

Microsoft this week announced a new enterprise-only flexibility in Windows servicing that lets IT professionals roll back individual non-security elements of an update when a change breaks something.

The actor on the strange intimacy of “WandaVision,” the narrative of her career, and finding the personhood in her characters.

None of us wants to shove a terrified parent into an unmarked vehicle. But sometimes love leaves us no choice.

Since Alexey Navalny’s arrest, some Russians are reëvaluating their compromises, questioning whether the price of success—or merely getting by—has become untenable.

The amount of Pokémon branding in Japan is intense. You’d think Pocket Monsters can be slapped on anything — maybe not anything, but as this fishing lures show, almost anything. As Go Nintendo points out, Japanese fishing equipment company Duo has teamed up with The Pokémon Company for made-in-Japan Pikachu...

Partisan politics shouldn’t be used to shield, or to frame, perpetrators of sexual misconduct, Dahleen Glanton writes.

Stimulus checks are coming, but first we must address Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss. Only then can Senate Republicans approve a COVID-19 relief package.

Prepare to feel old: It's been 10 years since we've seen either Mary-Kate or Ashley Olsen onscreen. For her part, Ashley's last roles, though minor, were in 2009's The...

Mar 3, 2021; Portland, Oregon, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) reacts after a basket during the first half against the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center. | Steve Dykes-USA TODAY Sports

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1. As Senate rushes $1.9 trillion bill through Congress, Biden faces doubts over whether it’s still the right package  The Washington Post
2. House passes landmark election bill as parties war over voting rights  Yahoo News
3. Senate bill will narrow income eligibility for $1,400 stimulus checks  CNN
4. Biden has finally agreed to slim down stimulus checks. There’s a lot more he could cut.  The Washington Post
5. Democrats won’t gain anything from scaling back stimulus checks... Читать дальше...

Jackson Smith, 33-year-old software developer from your hometown, recently completed his first project, Toxic Paradise (5.11d), at your local crag. Smith, a climber of four years, spent the better part of three months working Paradise, though he is adamant that the line, for all intents and ...

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The Census only happens every 10 years.

Proximity detectors worn by Pearson airport employees sound alert when wearer comes within two metres of another wearer, and can help with contact tracing.

Women have lost many more jobs than men since the beginning of COVID-19, according to a new RBC report. Experts warn there will be long-term fallout unless we find a solution quickly.

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Skipper will remain on the Board of Directors and serve as an adviser.

Infosys on Thursday announced that it would be bringing 500 jobs to Calgary over the next three years