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The life of the Polish woman who claims to be Madeleine McCann is in danger.

UC Berkeley’s collection dates back to 19th century grave robbing.

A rendering of United Yards, a mixed-use development proposed to provide over 100 affordable apartments and 40,000 square feet of commercial and community space in Back of the Yards.

Automobile buyer loyalty has somewhat gone out the window lately with inventory shortages, but here's where they remained most faithful.

GitHub Copilot is like autocomplete for software engineering, and programmers say it's already led to big gains in productivity.

Not all asteroids are planet-killers — most are tiny and others are huge. So what are the largest and smallest asteroids in the solar system?

There’s no quick fix or to repairing your credit history, but every step counts including paying your bills on time and perhaps setting up automatic withdrawals so you don’t miss a payment.

A recent BMO survey found Canadians expect they’ll need to save $1.7 million to retire comfortably. Such reports stoke unnecessary fear, financial experts say.

It’s easier to be present and enjoy family time when you’re not worried about breaking the bank, Lesley-Anne Scorgie writes.

Transportation minister’s office directed staff to be tight-lipped about medical conditional report program that ensnares drivers who pose no threat.

Just as the art world is filled with wildly divergent opinions about what makes a great work of art, programmers often disagree upon what makes for great code, at least beyond the basic requirement that it shouldn't crash.

Convenience, not cost, drives open source adoption. That’s the primary finding of a new report from The Linux Foundation on the economic value of open source, and it’s a bit counterintuitive. In an interview with Professor Henry Chesbrough, adjunct professor at UC Berkeley and author of the report, he stressed that while cost is a significant perceived benefit of open source, not everyone finds it cheaper. Yet even the “open source costs more” crowd says the benefits of open source trump the costs. Читать дальше...

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Whaddya buyin'? They've changed the voice of the merchant in Resident Evil 4 and I'm heartbroken  Eurogamer.net

NBCU’s ad sales chief has dreamed up a future for the company that’s bigger than Google, but some say she needs a reality check

Photographer Douglas Friedman recreated the iconic image, this time with the Numi 2.0 smart toilet.

Even brands are shocked by the recent deprioritization of creators in the NFT space.

A group of former civil servants in India has written Prime Minister Narendra Modi about the “increasing incidents of outright discrimination against Christians,” urging him to reassure the community that it will be treated equally.

The idea struck my friend Darnell Mayberry as sound. He had spent much of his life as a working stiff, trying to get a handle on money, how to manage it and how to grow it.

Had a gun merchant code existed in 2016, credit card companies could have flagged Omar Mateen, the Pulse nightclub shooter, who used his cards to purchase nearly $20,000 worth of weaponry in less than two weeks before the shooting.

If you punch in “outage map” in a search engine, you will get a series of maps, ranging from the entire country to state by state and even smaller jurisdictions. These maps show electrical outages across the United States and territories, and they are within 10 minutes of actual time. The data come from the electrical utilities.

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