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On the same day that Theresa May, the British prime minister, expelled 23 Russian diplomats in anger at the Kremlin, bankers in the City were busy filling order books for billions of dollars of Russian bond deals. Just hours after Mrs May's retaliation for the poisoning of a Russian double agent living in ...
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The breadth of their to-do lists was easy to see at a recent annual meeting in New York, where, in a change of pace from the internet channels they're known to frequent, many of the software's most-active developers come together to coordinate. In a conversation transcribed by contributor Bryan Bishop, ...
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Berman is president of Spectrum Printing & Graphics in Rockville, Maryland. His commercial printing business runs a printing press that utilizes aluminum plates imported from France. He'd been bracing for price increases as Trump has levied a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports and a 25 percent ...
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Stocks around the world plunged Friday as investors feared that a trade conflict between the U.S. and China, the biggest economies in the world, would escalate. A second day of big losses pushed U.S. stocks to their worst week in two years. Investors fear that if China responds in kind to sanctions on ...
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Text Buffer Reimplementation, a Visual Studio Code Story
The Visual Studio Code 1.21 release includes a brand new text buffer implementation which is much more performant, both in terms of speed and memory usage. In this blog post, I'd like to tell the story of how we selected and designed the data structures and algorithms that led to those improvements.
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The park bench where the former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia, fell critically ill after a nerve agent attack has been removed and will be preserved as a potential crime exhibit. Officers in protective clothing wrapped the bench in plastic before using an angle grinder and crowbar to ...
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The company's headquarters look out on Cape Town's Table Mountain rather than Silicon Valley and its name remains barely known among US venture capitalists. But Naspers may have beaten them all in the investing history books. The South African media company this week sold more than $10bn of ...
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In Type 1 diabetes the immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys insulin-producing pancreatic cells, leaving patients dependent on lifelong insulin injections. The putative perpetrators of the attack -- which are called CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs) -- recognize specific protein fragments ...
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Brainwashing May Sound Like Fiction, But This Is How It Works In Real Life
This is supposed to be good scientific fun, so please don't view this as a manual to start a cult and control people's minds.
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For the past five years the choice of a meeting with either Chinese Premier Li Keqiang or Liu He, a low-profile economic adviser to President Xi Jinping, was no choice at all. Ever since Mr Xi became general secretary of the party in 2012, discerning Chinese officials and foreign dignitaries have beaten a ...
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Meanwhile, Egyptian authorities have recently called on Egyptian citizens to report media outlets critical of the Sisi regime. Following recent arrests of a reporter and a cameraman in Alexandria, more than 20 journalists remain behind bars in Egypt, which ranks third in the world in imprisoned journalists.
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KCK: Security maintained in Shengal, we withdraw the guerrillas
"It is indisputable that we will be with the Ezidis in Bakur, Rojava, Bashur and Iraq in the event of an attack from any target. Guerrilla forces intervened in Shengal in order to rescue the Ezidis from genocide. With the confidence of reaching this goal, guerrillas are withdrawing from Shengal," KCK said.
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Ava DuVernay, director of A Wrinkle In Time, spoke on the red carpet at the London premiere about how important the film was because of the diversity of the cast and crew, because the main protagonist is female and because it is part of the desire to bring a more diverse range of storytellers to the fore.
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At the peak of his powers, motivated, focused and in a car that has been honed into a devastating tool, Lewis Hamilton stands astride the sport as the driver to beat. Everyone wants a close fight but on the eve of the season he and Mercedes appear unstoppable. Hamilton takes to the grid as a four-time ...
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It is the 30th anniversary this week of the largest conventional armed battle in Africa since the second world war, between the Angola government and Cuban forces against the apartheid South African Defence Force and its rebel allies at Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. This was a watershed battle ...
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The advance could make possible decentralized manufacturing and distribution processes for protein therapeutics that might, in the future, promote better access to costly drugs all over the world. The team set out to improve the quality of manufactured proteins in vitro, or outside a cell, and found ...
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Former world number one Novak Djokovic suffered a surprise defeat by Benoit Paire in the Miami Open second round. The Serb, now ranked 12th as he continues his return from an elbow injury, lost 6-3 6-4 to the French world number 47 in just 69 minutes. It is Djokovic's third consecutive defeat since ...
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Arctic sea ice maximum at second lowest in the satellite record
This is the second lowest Arctic maximum in the 39-year satellite record. The four lowest maximum extents in the satellite record have all occurred in the past four years. NSIDC will post a detailed analysis of the 2017 to 2018 winter sea ice conditions in our regular monthly post in early April.
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