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Welcome to a new era of technology growth for the Minnesota Star Tribune
Aug 19, 2024 | www.startribune.com
Meta unleashes its Llama
Aug 14, 2024 | Platformer
The company's open-source AI is now roughly on par with rivals from OpenAI and Google. Should we worry?
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Applications to Boston’s exam schools have tumbled by half over four years. Here’s what’s behind the drop. - The Boston Globe
Aug 14, 2024 | BostonGlobe.com
The smaller applicant pools come as BPS has made significant strides in increasing the racial, socioeconomic, and geographic diversity of students offered exam school admission.
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Towards Standardizing Place
Aug 02, 2024 | Drew Breunig
Overture’s Global Entity Reference System (GERS) could revolutionize geospatial data by standardizing ‘place’, making geospatial intelligence more accessible through simple data joins rather than complex mapping tools.
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AI crawlers need to be more respectful
Jul 28, 2024 | Read the Docs
We talk a bit about the AI crawler abuse we are seeing at Read the Docs, and warn that this behavior is not sustainable.
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Load Balancing
Jul 21, 2024 | samwho.dev
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Former DCist staff launch the 51st, new local news site for Washington
Jul 21, 2024 | Washington Post
The 51st is a worker-run newsroom that will attempt to fill a niche its founders say opened when WAMU closed DCist.
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Free George R. R. Martin from The Winds of Winter
Jul 18, 2024 | Polygon
At this point, it seems like George R. R. Martin simply does not want to finish writing Winds of Winter. And if he doesn’t want to write it, I don’t want to read it.
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Wall Street Journal fires Hong Kong reporter who headed embattled press club
Jul 17, 2024 | Washington Post
The Hong Kong Journalists Association has been accused in recent weeks by state-run media outlets in Hong Kong and China of destabilizing the city.
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Paramount Axes Comedy Central Site, 25+ Years of Daily Show Clips Gone
Jun 27, 2024 | LateNighter
One of the richest repositories of late-night videos—including 25 years of clips from 'The Daily Show' and the entire run of 'The Colbert Report'—is no longer.
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MTV News Website Goes Dark, Archives Pulled Offline
Jun 25, 2024 | Variety
The website of the already-defunct MTV News has been fully pulled offline.
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Where extreme heat will pose the biggest threat: Look up your city
Jun 18, 2024 | Washington Post
See in maps how heat waves and dangerous temperatures will affect your city this summer. Track the temperatures and extreme heat wave risk in your area.
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EVs Could Last Nearly Forever—If Car Companies Let Them
Jun 15, 2024 | The Atlantic
An electric car capable of running for 1 million miles is within reach.
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Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas accepted gifts worth millions of dollars over 20 years, analysis finds
Jun 10, 2024 | CNBC
The justice took gifts worth a total nearly 10 times the value of all gifts received by his fellow justices during the same time, according to a new analysis.
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Q&A: Xiao Qiang on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square and the right to information in China
Jun 06, 2024 | www.cjr.org
Censorship, Surveillance, and Detentions in Hong Kong Ahead of 35th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre
Jun 04, 2024 | China Digital Times (CDT)
For decades on June 4, Hongkongers rallied in their thousands at the city’s Victoria Park to commemorate the anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. Hong Kong was the only location in China where such large-scale public vigils could take place....
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