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Courage exercised only when the coast is clear is not courage; it is opportunism.

You may have heard the old story that kids hate math. You may even assume that that's true. But the reality is, the "hatred" for math and related fields like science or computer science isn't quite what you think.

Four years ago, Bin Xie was happy to sing the praises of WeChat. The IT manager from Houston had seen his pro-Trump blog, “Chinese Voice of America,” go viral on the app.  Today, Xie stands firmly behind his president, but his relationship with the platform that fueled his rise has soured. The shift didn’t happen…

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The start has been delayed due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The start of the upcoming 2020-21 AHL season has been pushed back to February due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

The news was announced on Wednesday by AHL President and CEO Scott Howson.

The start date for the season is now set for February 5, but the league says that further details are still being worked out.

In a piece discussing how minor league hockey has adjusted to life during the pandemic, Howson spoke at length with ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski. Читать дальше...

Nvidia’s Ampere-powered $500 GeForce RTX 3070 plows through games just as quickly as the RTX 2080 Ti, last generation’s blistering $1,200 flagship, as we covered in-depth in our comprehensive Nvidia GeForce RTX 3070 Founders Edition review. You need a pixel-packed monitor to get the most out of it, though. Most people stick to straight 1440p or 4K monitors, but if you prefer a more immersive experience, a 3440x1440 ultrawide display would also be a fine fit for Nvidia’s newest graphics card.

The 2.1-channel MagniFi 2 soundbar from Polk Audio does a solid job at delivering virtualized 3D audio, but gets tripped up by its mediocre bass response.

Midnight Commander – the "mc" command – provides an easy way to browse directories and to view, move, delete, compare, change and edit files. Similar in some ways to ranger, mc makes it easy to move around directories and offers side-by-side file/directory listings that work independently of each other. In addition, it provides a very wide range of actions that you can take through simple menu choices.

Starting next year, Prime 1 Studio is releasing a pair of limited-edition Resident Evil 2 statutes, featuring Leon S. Kennedy and Claire Redfield blasting zombies.

TUNISIAN terrorist Brahim Aoussaoui was pictured grinning after arriving in Italy weeks before he was “freed from detention to slaughter three people in Nice”. The 21-year-old Tunisian migrant arrived in Europe just weeks before launching Thursday’s bloody attack, using a foot-long knife to butcher his victims. A security source told the Parisien newspaper that Aoussaoui […]

If you’re mapping election results of, say, the US presidential election by state, it can make sense to just show one color of red for states won by Republicans, and one color of blue for states won by Democrats. That’s because it doesn’t matter whether a candidate wins by three thousand votes or three million: It’s “winner take all.”

Microsoft is working on a new extensibility model for its signature Visual Studio IDE, with the goals of improving the reliability of extensions and making them easier to write. Extensions are to be supported locally and in the cloud as part of the plan.

Edge computing is getting a great deal of attention now, and for good reason. Cloud architecture requires that some processing be placed closest to the point of data consumption. Think computing systems in your car, industrial robots, and now full-blown connected mini clouds such as Microsoft’s Stack and AWS’s Outpost, certainly all examples of edge computing.

The appeal of Jill Biden and Melania Trump, candidates only in Americans’ imaginations, may play a bigger role in the 2020 election than you realize.

(Telecompaper) Mexican operator Totalplay (Grupo Salinas) has reached a distribution agreement with Montreal-based music, media and technology company Stingray to air the latter's Subscription Video On Demand (SVOD) services. Under the terms of the deal, Totalplay will make available Qello Concerts by Stingray,...

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Royal Antwerp coach Ivan Leko believes his side were completely deserving of beating Tottenham on Thursday night.

Lucasfilm’s immersive entertainment studio ILMxLAB has released a new trailer for Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy's Edge, and it gives us a glimpse of the kind of adventures we can expect from Ady Sun’Zee. It shows the young Padawan exploring a myst...

The one hundred or so youths who broke off from the protest in Limassol on Wednesday appeared to have been an organised group, police said on Friday. So far authorities have not speculated as to which group – if any – the 100 or so rioters may be a part...

ALBANY, N.Y (NEWS10) — Halloween is almost here! Whether you’re planning to brave the cold for trick-or-treating or opting for an indoor scavenger hunt, here are some fun ways to get into the spooky spirit. Join me in my kitchen and I’ll show you how to BOO-it-yourself! Flying Bat Wall! You will need: Bat wing [...]

Shahane knows it is futile to take oneself seriously, so instead of letting trolls affect her, she looks forward to celebrating the power of social media.

(CNN) — Por segunda vez en unas semanas, Francia se recupera de la devastación de un brutal ataque con cuchillo…

A new study published in the journal of Psychological Science found that people who feel enthusiastic and cheerful -- what psychologists call “positive affect” -- are less likely to experience memory decline as they age.