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| In defense of traditional aid A few weeks ago, Duke Professor Indermit Gill prophesied in a Brookings blog post that 2018 will herald the end of aid just as we hosted a roundtable of experts from civil society, multilateral institutions, and former government officials with Charlotte Petri-Gornitzka, chair of the Organization for Economic ...
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| The Car-Sharing Company That Could Save GM Expands to Canada General Motors' bid to rule whatever comes after the self-driving apocalypse—and the end of private car ownership as we know it—has gone international. Today, the automaker's in-house car-sharing company, Maven, announced it is expanding to Toronto. Maven already operates in most major US ...
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Expectations are high for electric vehicles in China Electric vehicles appear to be gaining further ground in China's automobile market, and companies are betting that the trend will continue. An example of that optimism, is Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing's announcement last week that it plans to set up an e-vehicle sharing service with 12 ...
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| In Sweden, Noor went straight to school; in Britain, Ammar waited six months Ammar, a Syrian refugee in Britain who wants to become a doctor, had to buy his own text books and put himself through a sciences GCSE. Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian. Noor and Ammar are two teenage boys with a lot in common. They've never met, but both made perilous ...
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| Google sold 3.9 million Pixel phones in 2017 In the 16 months since its initial release in October 2016, Google's Pixel family of phones has earned plenty of acclaim and scrutiny, but not very many sales. The latest update on Pixel sales comes from IDC's Francisco Jeronimo, who notes that Google shipped 3.9 million Pixel and Pixel 2 devices in ...
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| Weird Worm Crawling in Oregon Woman's Eye Has Only Been Seen in Cows But what if those worms have never been found in human eyes before? That's what happened to a 26-year-old woman in Oregon who thought she felt something in her eye — and that something turned out be a parasitic eye worm that previously had been known to infect only cattle, according to a new ...
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| A third of people with dementia in England 'not receiving full care' The NHS says people with dementia should have an individual care plan reviewed at least once a year. Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images. More than one in three people in England diagnosed with dementia are not getting the follow-up care they are entitled to, a charity has said.
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| Facebook is creating a news section in Watch to feature breaking news Facebook is going to create a new news section in its video streaming platform Facebook Watch to feature breaking news stories. The move, which Campbell Brown, the company's year-old head of news partnerships, announced onstage at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, is part of a ...
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| GPUs in Kubernetes Engine now available in beta Using GPUs in Kubernetes Engine can turbocharge compute-intensive applications like machine learning (ML), image processing and financial modeling. By packaging your CUDA workloads into containers, you can benefit from the massive processing power of Kubernetes Engine's GPUs whenever ...
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| Sad News For Everyone In The Forest If you're in the forest right now, we hope you're sitting down, because there is an utter tragedy happening where you are. This is one of those nightmare scenarios you hope never happens to those in the woods, but there is simply no way to sugarcoat what is going down: There is a rat in the forest.
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