Новости за 19.09.2024

1. Harris, Trump neck-and-neck in 7 swing states: Poll  The Hill
2. Harris Ahead in Pennsylvania and Tied Nationally? Unpacking an Unexpected Result.  The New York Times
3. Kamala Harris Opens Major Lead Among Pennsylvania Independents: Poll  Newsweek
4. Harris Gets Big Bump Over Trump In Election Betting Markets—One Week After First Presidential Debate  Forbes

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This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. In February 2024, a broken utility pole brought down power lines near the small town of Stinnett, Texas. In the following weeks, the fire reportedly sparked by that equipment grew to burn…

Incomplete tasks include creating a cyber national guard system, a real-time cyber threat sharing platform, and a national plan for restoring economic functions after a cyber disaster.

Using a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing, it might be possible to use the sun as a gigantic telescope to peer deep into space.

Yes, Rachel Platten knows exactly how you felt about “Fight Song.”

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When Delyn Garcia moved from the Philippines to Israel in 2018 to work as a caregiver, her goal was to earn enough money for her family back home to build a house. Yet life as an Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) was extremely difficult. The first year, she had to pay back the agency 1 million Read more...

The past seven years have been agonizing for any foreigner serving North Koreans. Since 2017, the US has barred its citizens from going into North Korea without special permission, all but halting humanitarian organizations and businesses based in the US from operating there. When COVID-19 hit in 2020, nearly all foreigners left China, including those Read more...

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Leaders must continuously adapt and fine-tune the mediation layer to their evolving API usage, ensuring it enhances system reliability, efficiency and security.

The invisible employee phenomenon is an increasing threat to workplaces across the country as many workers suffer in silence, but leaders can help them out of the shadows to get the support they need.

What's the world's best blended Scotch whisky? Here is a list of the sixteen most medaled finalists, all worthy entries into the Scotch Whisky Hall of Fame.

Great Clips CEO Steve Hockett learned about overcoming failure from playing golf on sand greens in South Dakota.

When building wealth, there’s often more focus on what we should be doing, like saving and investing, but less on what we shouldn’t be doing.

The launch of a new venture between Ericsson and major 5G telcos intended to standardize and monetize APIs offers hope for new 5G revenues (and the end of dumb pipes)!

The hydrogen economy is moving fast, but there’s still time to make sure new projects are evaluated according to their actual benefits and risks — rather than the hype.

The war on vaping is a deadly example of modern socialism. It is killing people.

Here’s are the 20 frequently medaled Reposado Tequila expressions. Each is worthy of the Tequila Hall of Fame and each is a candidate for World’s Best Reposado Tequila.

Four distilleries are finalists for the IWSC Bourbon Producer of the Year Trophy. Those distilleries won 52 medals at the 2024 IWSC American Whisky Judging

Apple has released a new developer beta of iOS 18.1, bringing several important new features into the mix.

ETMarkets' latest mutual fund analysis explores stocks held by just one scheme. As of August 2024, we identified 157 of these stocks. To refine our focus, we concentrated on those with a mutual fund market value exceeding ₹20 crore and a share price increase of over 20% in calendar year 2024 to date.