Новости за 07.12.2017

One hundred and fifty years after the architect was born, the Ennis House is a testament to his continued influence—particularly onscreen.

Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones will have to get significant numbers of black voters to the polls in order to win, but the state’s voter suppression will make that a tough task.

They’ve helped combat the flames since World War II. But with more—and more intense—fire seasons still ahead, a series of prison reforms have cut their ranks.

As Mueller’s investigation heats up, the president is drawing directly from Nixon’s playbook. This time, it might actually succeed.

Cristiano Ronaldo set another UCL record, but it was Lucas Vazquez who netted the game winner in Real Madrid's 3-2 win over Dortmund. Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane brushes off any notion that he's looking ahead to the possibility of drawing PSG next round. Lucas Vazquez says Real Madrid remain the team to fear in next week's Champions League draw despite the Spanish giants finishing second in their group. Reigning European champions Madrid beat Borussia Dortmund 3-2 at home on Wednesday... Читать дальше...

Freeform/John Medland

• While Disney seems to want Fox primarily for its content assets as part of its budding war with Netflix, don't forget about ad sales.
• The combined media entity will immediately boast of a broader array of TV networks to sell to marketers, allowing it to command more clout in the market and deliver elaborate cross-network packages.
• Fox's ad team could also help nudge Disney ahead in data-driven ad sales, where it's fallen behind, say ad buyers. Читать дальше...

PostgreSQL (aka Postgres) is old as dirt, yet over the past five years it has panned out as pure gold. MongoDB got the billion-dollar IPO and AWS launched the mind-bendingly cool Aurora Serverless, but it’s PostgreSQL that keeps having its moment—again and again and again.

Modern ethos is that all data is valuable, should be stored forever, and that machine learning will one day magically find the value of it. You’ve probably seen that EMC picture about how there will be 44 zettabytes of data by 2020? Remember how everyone had Fitbits and Jawbone Ups for about a minute? Now Jawbone is out of business. Have you considered this “all data is valuable” fad might be the corporate equivalent? Maybe we shouldn’t take a data storage company’s word on it that we should store all data and never delete anything. Читать дальше...

One of the most fundamental choices to make when developing an application is whether to use a SQL or NoSQL database to store the data. Conventional SQL (i.e. relational) databases are the product of decades of technology evolution, good practice, and real-world stress testing. They are designed for reliable transactions and ad hoc queries, the staples of line of business applications. But they also come burdened with restrictions—such as rigid schema—that make them less suitable for other kinds of apps. Читать дальше...

By Chris Purcell, Analyst Relations at Hewlett Packard Enterprise

If you ask Google the question, “What is digital business,” it takes less than a second for the search engine to serve up more than 75 million pages of answers. That’s according to Peter Burris, who explains the concept in a white paper entitled, The executive role in digital business technology decisions.

Burris, the Chief Research Officer and General Manager of Wikkibon, SilicanANGLE’s research team, believes that... Читать дальше...

CAPE TOWN - South African companies contributed R9 billion in corporate social investment (CSI) in 2016/2017, compared with only R1.5bn that was achieved two decades ago. 

pa href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/eu-takes-hungary-court-over-anti-soros-laws-105953791.html"img src="http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.l3.zbMCmDx3vHr3B3Qaag--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/01a2f9b832715158b1cc9e34e0fda8275a8e83a1.jpg" width="130" height="86" alt="EU takes Hungary to court over #39;anti-Soros#39; laws" align="left" title="EU takes Hungary to court over #39;anti-Soros#39; laws" border="0" /aThe EU took Hungary to the bloc's top court... Читать дальше...

The EU took Hungary to the bloc's top court on Thursday over a crackdown on education and foreign-backed civil society groups that critics say targets US billionaire George Soros. The move underscores the EU's toughening stance toward both the government of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and his right-wing allies in Poland over the bloc's democracy norms and migration. Brussels warned Budapest in October that it would take the case to the European Court of Justice, the top court in the 28-nation EU... Читать дальше...

I started speaking French on the ward with an 83-year-old woman, who I'll call Ariadne. "Je voudrais aller fumer dans ma chambre, parce que je n'aime pas l'hopital," I’d say as flamboyantly as possible. "Bien!" She’d cackle, as the nurses looked nervously on.

Face-to-face talks in Vienna between the top U.S. and Russian diplomats appear to have produced no breakthrough on the Ukraine crisis and other issues that have been heightening tensions between the two countries.

The ministry expressed its deep concern about the repercussions of the decision on the stability of the region

A police officer has reportedly confessed that they pay senior officers in order to be posted into the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to Amnesty Internationa

A police officer has reportedly confessed that they pay senior officers in order to be posted into the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) to Amnesty Internationa

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov plan to meet for face-to-face talks about Ukraine's conflict on December 7 during the annual Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

Face-to-face talks in Vienna between the top U.S. and Russian diplomats appear to have produced no breakthrough on the Ukraine crisis and other issues that have been heightening tensions between the two countries.

The inspector general of police, Idris Ibrahim, has ordered an investigation of the kwara state command spokesperson, Ajayi Okesanmi, for alleged corruption.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov have ended their face-to-face talks in Vienna without saying what progress, if any, may have been made on the issues that have been heightening tensions between the two countries.

As US President Donald Trump recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, his move was already "endorsed" by the world’s largest free online encyclopedia.

Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo explains what it means to win the 2017 Best FIFA Men's Player Award for a fifth time. The Best FIFA Men's Player award had a familiar look with Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Neymar once again sharing the podium when it comes to a top individual prize. Ronaldo walked away with it, again, and no player other than Ronaldo or Messi has won either the Ballon d'Or or FIFA's award since 2007, when Kaka scooped up both prizes for his Champions League-winning exploits with AC Milan. Читать дальше...