by Lily HydeThis report was produced in partnership with Coda Story.In the village of Milove on the Ukrainian border with Russia in Luhansk oblast, Ukrainian retired sailor Vladimir Tertishnik has not seen his daughters and grandchildren for more than a year. One daughter lives in Crimea, annexed by Russia; the other is in a Russian-controlled…
A video from the recently besieged Kabul was shared with me this morning, of what looks like a man falling out of an airplane. I dismissed it at first, because it isn’t uncommon for exaggerated misinformation to spread in times of crisis. But soon after, a source in Kabul sent me a photo taken of…
ROME—American Cardinal Raymond Burke, who staunch conservatives in the Catholic Church view as something of an anti-Pope Francis, is fighting for his life on a ventilator in a Wisconsin hospital after contracting what he often referred to as the “Wuhan Virus.” The prelate was on a vacation from Rome, where he lives.The 73-year-old cardinal has…
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Dyrham Park, an English country estate nestled among steep hills seven miles north of Bath, fulfills your fantasy of what such a place should be. A house and a dovecote were recorded on the site in 1311. The deer park was enclosed during the reign of Henry VIII. The mansion that you see today is…
Bayesian reasoning is an approach to statistics, but you can use it to interpret all sorts of new information. In the early hours of September 26, 1983, the Soviet Union’s early-warning system detected the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles from the United States. Stanislav Petrov, a forty-four-year-old duty officer, saw the warning. He was charged…
Tierney – stock.adobe.com Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy has listed moving to the cloud among the steps that businesses should take to help fight climate change By Caroline Donnelly, Senior Editor, UK Published: 16 Aug 2021 0:01 Businesses should consider picking up the pace of their cloud migrations to do their bit to…
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Pepperdata, a provider of tools that optimize IT infrastructure for computation, has seen a lot of trends come and go over the years. Now organizations are using the company’s tools to optimize infrastructure to process AI models. VentureBeat caught up…
The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! COVID-19 supply chains have gained the attention of the general public, but also that of cybercriminals. Such bad actors are getting more skilled at finding and exploiting every potential threat surface in these crucial logistics networks. No one defensive tool…
Updated 3 hours ago · Published on 15 Aug 2021 11:55PM · Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob tried to garner Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s support in his pursuit of the prime minister post, Pejuang deputy president Marzuki Yahya says. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, August 15, 2021. DEPUTY Prime Minister and Umno vice president…
