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Biden vowed to push ahead with a new plan to provide student debt relief for millions of borrowers after the Supreme Court struck down his original effort.

'Based on my interaction with TikTok, they strike me as a company that, for the right reasons, would be willing to do pretty much anything to accommodate whatever is required of them to exist in the U.S.'

Hotspots beneath cities deform the ground, causing important infrastructure to crack under stress

Amazon Prime Day has entered the building, folks. That means there’s no better time than now to find the greatest deals. If you’re a hardcore gamer, you may want to stick around, as we’ve got a delicious deal for you today. Dell’s currently selling the Alienware M17 gaming laptop for $1,199.99 at Dell, which is a savings of a colossal $1,150 (!!). That’s a phenomenal price right there, especially given the specs. Let’s point the magnifying glass on the details then, shall well?

Amazon Prime Day is finally here and ready to party. Are you ready for it? If you’re in the market for an immersive curved monitor for those late night gaming sessions, you better strap in, as we’ve got an amazing deal on tap for you today. Amazon’s currently selling the Samsung Odyssey Neo G7 monitor for just $499.99, which is 50 percent off of the original $999.99 price tag. Holy cow.

Enterprises over the past several years have embraced SD-WAN for many reasons, including the flexibility of cloud architecture, enhanced security, centralized management of distributed locations, and improved application availability and performance. In turn, the popularity of SD-WAN has helped propel interest in secure access service edge (SASE), a network architecture that converges connectivity and security services.

Generative AI has seized the popular imagination and started a new tech gold rush. While much attention has been focused on AI tools that produce natural language prose and visual art, in tech circles AI is gaining increased interest for its coding capabilities. You can describe a program you want to an AI chatbot, and it returns executable code to you within seconds, something that both intrigues and unnerves the average programmer.

Consensus is fundamental to consistent, distributed systems. In order to guarantee system availability in the event of inevitable crashes, systems need a way to ensure that each node in the cluster is in alignment, such that work can seamlessly transition between nodes in the case of failures. Consensus protocols such as Paxos, Raft, and View Stamped Replication (VSR) help to drive resiliency for distributed systems by providing the logic for processes like leader election, atomic configuration changes, synchronization, and more. Читать дальше...

If you’ve explored the advantages of your cloud computing platforms, you’ve likely come across the autoscaling features. Although these differ for each provider, the idea is that they will detect if you need more memory, CPUs, or storage and automatically allocate it for you ahead of need. This allows your applications to perform at a specific level, no matter if workloads increase or decrease.

Our church leaders are ignoring the wounded man lying in the ditch to "minister" to the thief who attacked him.

1. Instagram Threads Growth Is a Huge 'Surprise' Inside Meta and Twitter  Business Insider
2. Meta's Threads hits 100 million users  CNBC Television
3. Meta's new Threads app 'murderous' for phone batteries, users say  New York Post
4. Opinion | Twitter is the only app that can kill Twitter, not Threads  The Washington Post
5. Threads: We don't need a new Twitter, we need a break from social media  Euronews
6. View Full Coverage on Google News

Sweeping subpoena seeks proof marketers, agencies and platforms are violating anti-trust laws.

The longtime TBWA\Chiat\Day New York exec spent the past decade at Long Island agency Austin Williams.

Retail giant Walmart is constantly investing in new technology to stay ahead of the competition.

The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which was signed into law in late 2022 and went into effect June 27, 2023, requires employers to provide “reasonable accommodations” for an employee’s known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, unless the accommodations would cause the employer an “undue hardship.” Whom Does the PWFA Apply […]

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Gun reform advocates are appealing to all those affected by gun violence, including gun owners themselves, in a new PSA released by gun violence prevention nonprofit Brady United and the Ad Council. 

I have done it.

I have successfully found a side of TikTok so full of smooth jazz and tranquility that spending my time on the app now feels, dare I say, pastoral. In a French way.

Swipe through my FYP and you'll find small clips from animated films like The Triplets of Belleville, A Cat in Paris, Fantasia 2000, and Allegro Non Troppo — critically acclaimed cult cinema that fuses the artistry of hand-drawn animation with minimal dialogue. In these films, most of the narrative is conveyed through pantomime and music... Читать дальше...

Intergalactic travel is technically impossible today. But with the most technologically advanced space telescope, you can still experience the great cosmic expanse.

Aretha Franklin's sons are in court fighting over two handwritten wills - one found in a cabinet and one under a sofa cushion.

Smash hit Japanese animation feature “The First Slam Dunk” is set to be the first film theatrically released by newly-launched Australian distribution and New Zealand licensing firm Sugoi Co. The company is headed by Tim Anderson, founder and former CEO of Madman Entertainment, the Australian indie with a strong leaning for Japanese content, and Sylvester […]