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On the 43rd anniversary of Jomo Kenyatta’s death, Kwame Otiende looks at how the wily politician managed to become a darling of the West and deal ruthlessly with opponents at home

Some 135 hectares is available to lease as part of the agricultural department’s efforts to free up more land.

One factor has been overlooked in understanding how people made these decisions, and it explains a lot.

Beijing’s policies now that the Taliban is in charge will provide clues as to how it views global leadership.

Eric Adams fought against police brutality. Now this ex-cop is fighting efforts to defund the force. New Yorkers seem ready to give his middle-of-the-road ideas a try.

Databases are typically classified as relational (SQL) or NoSQL, and transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP), or hybrid (HTAP). Departmental and special-purpose databases were initially considered huge improvements to business practices, but later derided as “islands.” Attempts to create unified databases for all data across an enterprise are classified as data lakes if the data is left in its native format, and data warehouses if the data is brought into a common format and schema. Subsets of a data warehouse are called data marts. Читать дальше...

Good multicloud architects are hard to find. Most of those calling themselves multicloud architects really just specialized in a single hyperscaler and found that things turned multicloud quickly, so they did as well. It’s called “multicloud washing.”

Algorithmic bias is one of the AI industry’s most prolific areas of scrutiny. Unintended systemic errors risk leading to unfair or arbitrary outcomes, elevating the need for standardized ethical and responsible technology — especially as the AI market is expected to hit $110 billion by 2024. 

Companies including Microsoft, Google, and Facebook are backing an initiative to promote the extended Berkley Packet Filter (eBPF), technology that enables developers to safely embed programs in any piece of software including operating system kernels.

We have been inventing stories about reptiles in the city since long before the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Hawaii Gov. David Ige is asking tourists to stay home and delay any vacation plans in the region until at least November as the state’s covid-19 case numbers soar. Hawaii is averaging about 650 new cases a day, a troubling uptick from a month ago when the state was averaging just 138 cases per day.

Dealing with data sure ain't what it used to be.

'Twas a time, way back in the prehistoric era of modern computing — so, y'know, roughly 2012 or so — when organizing your business meant managing a messy spreadsheet and all sorts of complicated formulae. Heck, you practically had to be the kind of person who'd use a word like "formulae" in order to handle it!

These days, we've got more code-free info-juggling tools that any sane soul could possibly process. From Airtable to Microsoft... Читать дальше...

Amazon lockers are popping up in Chicago parks, an unwelcome addition that has upset many residents. Parks should not be used to help Jeff Bezos bolster his wealth.

Adult immigrants 55 to 64 living at or below the federal poverty level would also become eligible for the program, which Illinois created last year to provide government-subsidized health benefits to seniors living in the U.S. illegally.

LOS ANGELES, CA - MARCH 16: Kobe Bryant #24 of the Los Angeles Lakers plays defense against the Portland Trail Blazers on March 16, 2007 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California.  | Photo by Noah Graham/NBAE via Getty Images

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Hypersonics, Americas

Since 2018 there has been no further news about the Lockheed Martin demonstrator.

Here's What You Need to Remember: It’s also possible that the project may be continuing under a “black budget,” due to how secret its predecessor was. As the SR-72 brings a different kind of capability, the military may have chosen only to reveal hypersonic projects that are on par with what other nations are doing with hypersonics to preserve the secrecy of... Читать дальше...

The fewer clues you need, the more points you receive.

What if an animal was doing improv and pretending to be a carrot when it died?

The author reads his story from the August 30, 2021, issue of the magazine.

Murder suspect Saied Hussaini fled Australia four years ago. Living in Afghanistan, he is now begging to return to Perth despite knowing he faces the prospect of life behind bars on arrival.