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2016 Oscars live blog

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

Don’t miss all the drama and the laughs during the 88th annual Academy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 28. Datebook and Style writers will be offering live updates and commentary from the red carpet to the ceremony online at http://bit.ly/SFOSCARS. Sign up now for the live blog and join in on the discussion during the awards show. The Oscars, hosted by Chris Rock, will be televised at 5:30 p.m. on ABC from the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. The red carpet begins at 4 p.m.

This medical company created an online calculator that uses AI to guess your age and sex

BusinessInsider.com 

Carlos Osorio/AP

As artificial intelligence improves, its applications are starting to show up in surprising places. For example, a new website from medical startup Insilico Medicine, Inc. wants to use AI to guess how old you are.

The site, Aging.ai, uses an artificially intelligent algorithm to analyze common blood markers like glucose and cholesterol.

They say that you can just enter these details from your latest blood test and the AI will try to guess your age and sex.

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Disagreements Remain in U.K.-EU Talks

WSJ.com 

High-stakes talks over resetting Britain’s relationship with the European Union dragged well into a second day on Friday as U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron struggled to persuade other leaders to accept key demands.

White House to tackle chronic absenteeism in schools

«SFGate» (sfgate.com) 

The Obama administration announced plans Friday to connect more than 1 million students who miss major amounts of school time with mentors in hopes of turning that around. The Ad Council will launch a multimillion dollar anti-absenteeism ad campaign as well, targeting parents of students in kindergarten through eighth grade with billboards, public service announcements and a website.



Metro Police investigating reported kidnapping

Las Vegas Sun (lasvegassun.com) 

Metro Police are investigating a reported kidnapping at a home in the area of Cheyenne Avenue and Fort Apache Road, authorities said. About 5:45 a.m. today, a woman reported ...

Judge: 'Affluenza' teen Ethan Couch will move to adult court

United Press International (UPI.com) 

Amy R. Connolly
FORT WORTH, Texas, Feb. 19 (UPI) -- A judge transferred the case against "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch from juvenile court to adult court after the teen's 19th birthday in April.

Bolivia's Morales Faces Tough Vote

WSJ.com 

President Evo Morales had been confident that Sunday’s referendum will allow him to run for another term, but corruption allegations involving a former girlfriend are making the outcome too close to call.

S. Korean Yun Sung-bin grabs historic silver at skeleton worlds

Yonhap News Agency (en) 

SEOUL, Feb. 20 (Yonhap) -- South Korean skeleton slider Yun Sung-bin grabbed a historic silver medal at the world championships on Friday in Austria, further brightening prospects at the next Winter Olympics on home soil. Yun posted the time of 3 m

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Here's how much money Google sent to Bermuda to avoid taxes (GOOG)

BusinessInsider.com 

Thomson Reuters

AMSTERDAM/LONDON (Reuters) - Google moved 10.7 billion euros ($12 billion) through the Netherlands to Bermuda in 2014, as part of a structure which allows it to earn most of its foreign income tax free.

Accounts for Google Netherlands Holdings BV published on Thursday show the unit transferred almost all its revenue, mainly royalties from an Irish affiliate through which most non-U.S. revenue is channeled, to a Bermuda-based, Irish-registered affiliate called Google Ireland Holdings. Читать дальше...

Ugandan forces use strong-arm tactics amid presidential vote

«La Crosse Tribune» (lacrossetribune.com) 

KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's security forces used strong-arm tactics in the middle of an election Friday, arresting the main opposition candidate, beating protest…

Trump Hugs Trees in S.C.

The Huffington Post 

Trump Hugs Trees in S.C.
By Carol Caldwell

Here I am on highway 17 south barreling toward Walterboro, S.C., home of the jumbo boiled peanut. The further you get outside Charleston, the more you appreciate why it's called The Low Country. It's not only low, it are flat. (Locals know: pi R square, but cornbread R round.) It's flat but the pines are high as far as you can see. Thickets poke out of plough mud and loam, give way to swamp alongside grand expansive grasslands of marsh. It is pure-T bliss this late afternoon... Читать дальше...


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