What to Watch Monday at Wimbledon

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New York Pride: Huge crowds attend New York Pride march

Hundreds of thousands of people have been watching or taking part in WorldPride in New York.

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Japanese whalers set sail for commercial hunting

Five ships will hunt up to 227 hunt whales for profit, ending a three-decade pause despite criticism.

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Texas plane crash: 10 killed after 'aircraft veers into hangar'

The light aircraft veered into a hangar shortly after take-off at an airport near Dallas.

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Hong Kong: Police and protesters clash on handover anniversary

Riot police use batons to repel protesters on the 22nd anniversary of the city's handover to China.

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Trump in North Korea: KCNA hails 'amazing' visit

Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in Sunday's historic trip.

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Top10: Why govt worries about Amarnath Yatra?

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When India’s most famous techie met India’s most famous cricketer

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WC: India give up fight to hand England lifeline

Facing a must-win situation, hosts England put up a spirited effort to win by 31 runs, but India's listless effort in the death overs of their run-chase of 337 surprised fans and experts alike.

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8 most-preferred engineering colleges in India

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Live: Heavy rains continue to batter Mumbai

Torrential rains continue to lash Mumbai and its neighbouring areas for fourth day on Monday. Stay tuned to TOI for updates.

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How Myanmar is smuggling gold into India

The shiny metal comes in as biscuits with no mark of origin from neighbouring Myanmar

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Dhoni, Kedar draw flak for 'lack of intent' v Eng

MS Dhoni and Kedar Jadhav were at the receiving end of fan fury after India suffered their first defeat of the 2019 World Cup at the hands of hosts England in Birmingham on Sunday.

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Mexico hail: Ice 1.5m thick carpets Mexico's Guadalajara

Streets were carpeted in ice which trapped vehicles and damaged homes in the city of five million.

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Blisteringly Fast Machine Learning On An Arduino Uno

Even though machine learning AKA ‘deep learning’ / ‘artificial intelligence’ has been around for several decades now, it’s only recently that computing power has become fast enough to do anything useful with the science.

However, to fully understand how a neural network (NN) works, [Dimitris Tassopoulos] has stripped the concept down to pretty much the simplest example possible – a 3 input, 1 output network – and run inference on a number of MCUs, including the humble Arduino Uno. Miraculously, the Uno processed the network in an impressively fast prediction time of 114.4 μsec!

Whilst we did not test the code on an MCU, we just happened to have Jupyter Notebook installed so ran the same code on a Raspberry Pi directly from [Dimitris’s] bitbucket repo.

He explains in the project pages that now that the hype about AI has died down a bit that it’s the right time for engineers to get into the nitty-gritty of the theory and start using some of the ‘tools’ such as Keras, which have now matured into something fairly useful.

In part 2 of the project, we get to see the guts of a more complicated NN with 3-inputs, a hidden layer with 32 nodes and 1-output, which runs on an Uno at a much slower speed of 5600 μsec.

This exploration of ML in the embedded world is NOT ‘high level’ research stuff that tends to be inaccessible and hard to understand. We have covered Machine Learning On Tiny Platforms Like Raspberry Pi And Arduino before, but not with such an easy and thoroughly practical example.

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Govt wants petrol stations to charge your e-vehicle

The government is looking to put in place a framework for a mega battery manufacturing and charging infrastructure — including the use of petrol pumps for electric charging points — to push electric vehicles (EVs) in the country. Currently, there are around 60,000 petrol stations operated by state-run firms and there are plans to add nearly the same number

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Now, education loan not for all courses, colleges

According to the latest set of guidelines issued by the Union HRD ministry, eligibility for the model educational loan scheme of the Indian Banks’ Association is restricted to students enrolling for professional and technical courses in NAAC-accredited colleges and universities, institutions of national importance and centrally funded technical institutions.

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FinMin: Can’t compare tax on salaried, professionals

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SC to function at full strength of 31 judges

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Wait for disability card proving endless for lakhs

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Niti reveals why childbirth deaths still high

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What's happening in the news this week?

This week, Bonnie Tyler makes an appearance, alongside some reconstituted meat products.

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Medicinal cannabis: The family that changed Australia's debate

Their heartrending story shifted perceptions on medical cannabis - but, they argue, not far enough.

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Alexandra Feuer, Joseph Portale

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Assam Police is India’s latest social media darling

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Venezuelan Navy Captain Accused of Rebellion Dies After Signs of Torture

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World Cup: Pak and Afghanistan fans come to blows

Fans from Afghanistan and Pakistan clashed during the World Cup match between the two sides after pro-Balochistan banners flew above the Headingley ground Sunday, prompting the ICC to promise an investigation into the matter in collaboration with West Yorkshire police.

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Buying an iPhone online? How to check it's new

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Kamala Harris Is Supported by Rivals After Trump Jr. Questions Her Race

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36 countries where iPhone XS is cheaper than in India

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India aim to maintain winning run against England

A ruthless India will be eyeing pole position with a solid knockout punch on an already disintegrated England in Sunday's high-profile World Cup encounter. Virat Kohli's men are unbeaten after their first six matches of the round-robin competition and need just one win from their remaining three games to guarantee a place in the semi-finals.

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1st 'Mann ki Baat' after PM's return to power to air today

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's radio programme "Mann Ki Baat" will resume today almost a month after the PM returned to power. This will be the first 'Mann ki Baat' programme in Modi'd second consecutive term as the Prime Minister.

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Albania set for tense local election stand-off

With the main opposition boycotting the poll, there are fears of disruption and violence.

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Blog: How BJP handles power will decide future of opposition

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Trump ‘trying to work out’ historic Kim meeting at DMZ

Donald Trump says he wants to “say hello” and shake Kim Jong-un’s hand at the DMZ.

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An SDR Transceiver The Old-School Way

Yankees’ Bats Are Too Much for the Red Sox in London

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Whitney North Seymour Jr., Former U.S. Prosecutor Who Fought Corruption, Dies at 95

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A handy guide to becoming US president

Who gets to be president? How do you win? All your questions and more in one handy explainer.

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Gotabhaya Rajapaksa: The wartime strongman who wants to run Sri Lanka

Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, the former defence chief who crushed the Tamil Tigers, is eyeing a return to power.

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The teenager with Down's syndrome swimming in the Arctic

Trym is the first person to live on the Svalbard Islands with Down's syndrome and he isn't letting it hold him back.

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The online LGBT magazine blocked in its own country

How one man is seeking to break down gender taboos in Jordan.

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Your pictures on the theme of 'pathway'

Each week, we publish a gallery of readers' pictures on a set theme. This week it is "pathway".

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With Little to Celebrate, Mets Honor a Title-Winning Team

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Sudan: Dying for the revolution

Meet the young protesters in Sudan prepared to die to keep the country's revolution alive.

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12 products from Xiaomi, OnePlus launching in July

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At least 17 dead in wall collapse following continuous rains in Pune

At least 17 people were killed as a portion of the compound wall of a residential complex collapsed on shanties following incessant rains in Pune, police said on Saturday. The wall collapsed due to heavy rainfall. The dead were mostly labourers from Bihar and Bengal living in shanties and used to work at a construction site nearby. Three injured were admitted at a hospital.

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Australian PM tweets selfie with Modi, praises him

The newly-elected Australian PM met his Indian counterpart on Saturday morning on the sidelines of G20 Summit in Japan and shared some light moments with him. Morrison clicked a selfie with Modi and posted it on Twitter with a caption "Kithana acha he Modi!" (How good is Modi). Last month, the two leaders congratulated each other on their respective election victories.

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Women vloggers blazing a trail on motorbikes

Women are increasingly gaining prominence in a field dominated by men and some have left jobs to turn biking into full-time gigs

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The credit for my revival goes to me alone: Shami

Mohammed Shami has been to hell and back in the last one and half years, fighting accusations of domestic violence. As a result, he was dropped from the BCCI's central contract list pending inquiry, and also sat out a Test match on fitness ground.

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At least 15 killed in wall collapse following continuous rains in Pune

At least 15 people were killed as a portion of the compound wall of a residential complex collapsed on shanties following incessant rains in Pune, police said on Saturday. The shanties were built for the labourers working at a construction site nearby, they said.

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A Super Tidy School Bus RV Conversion

Many of us have seen an old bus for sale for a tantalizingly low price, and begun thinking about the possibilities. [EpiclyEpicEthan1] is someone who took the next step, bought the bus, and got to work converting it to an RV, with impressive results.

The bus in question is a 2002 International RE3000, which in its former life had helped move school children and barrels of pool chemicals to and fro. The project began, as many do, with a full teardown of the interior. With this done, the floor was treated to remove rust and repainted. Insulation and new plywood boards were then installed, and the fit-out began.

The amount of work involved in the build is immense. There’s a master bedroom, auxiliary bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen area. It’s a fully featured RV in every sense of the word, and yes, there is hot water. There was also significant work done to improve the driving experience, with switches relocated, lights added, and a reversing camera installed for easier parking.

Overall, it’s an impressive project that should serve as great inspiration to anyone wanting to attempt something similar. Then again, if your means are a little more limited, you could always go for a Corolla build.

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G20: PM Modi holds separate talks with leaders

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Saudi crown prince doing 'spectacular job': Trump

US President Donald Trump Saturday praised Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "You have done a spectacular job," Trump told the powerful crown prince, referring to him as "a friend of mine". The young royal has faced international pressure after US-based dissident Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the kingdom's consulate in Istanbul last year.

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Who's in the running for Juncker's post and other EU top jobs?

EU leaders will head back to Brussels on Sunday night for a special meeting to try and agree on who should be the next president of the European Commission.

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Abiy Ahmed's reforms in Ethiopia lift the lid on ethnic tensions

Just a few weeks ago, Abiy Ahmed was feted across Africa but deadly attacks threatens his reforms.

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Ebola: The impact of militant attacks in DR Congo

The deadly Ebola virus has spread, but are attacks and insecurity affecting the response?

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Dressed to kill: Video games' tricky relationship with fashion

Video games insiders explain why too many games are let down by their leading character's look.

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G20 live: PM holds talks with Indonesian Prez

After a first day dominated by public shows of bonhomie, all eyes at the G20 Summit on Saturday turn to a pivotal trade showdown between economic rivals China and the United States. PM Modi is also holding important plurilateral and bilateral meetings with world leaders. Stay here for all live updates:

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Trump says he wants to 'shake hands' with North Korea's Kim at DMZ

"I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake hand and say Hello," President Trump tweets.

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Blue for Sudan: Instagram 'sympathy scammers' exploit support for protesters

Fake accounts trying to capitalise on social media campaigns are rife on the photo-sharing platform.

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G20: Crunch time as US-China showdown looms

After a first day dominated by public shows of bonhomie, all eyes at the G20 on Saturday will turn to a pivotal trade showdown between economic rivals China and the United States. US President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping will meet in a bid to thrash out a truce in a long-running trade war that has seen hundreds of billions of dollars in tit-for-tat tariffs.

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Trump says open to meeting North Korea's Kim

US President Donald Trump on said Saturday he was open to meeting Kim Jong Un at the demilitarised zone between North and South Korea while on a trip to Seoul this weekend. The surprise offer came amid a recent flurry of diplomacy over North Korea's nuclear programme after a Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi collapsed without an agreement. ​

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Berlin Brandenburg: The airport with half a million faults

Billions over budget, years late in opening, and still being rebuilt before a single plane has landed. What's gone so wrong at the new Berlin airport?

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Japan whaling: Commercial hunts to resume despite outcry

Hunters could be back in Japanese waters from 1 July, ending a three-decade halt to commercial whaling.

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150 priests in Kerala rebel against cardinal

There seems to be no end to the tussle between a section of priests of the Ernakulam Angamaly archdiocese of the Syro Malabar Church and its head Cardinal George Alencherry.

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12 of AN-32 rescue team fight for survival

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Oppn slams government on central rule extension

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After WI rout, India a point away from WC semis

Newly crowned ODI world No. 1 India's unbeaten run continued on Thursday as Virat & Co hammered West Indies by 125 runs to take the team's tally of points to 11, leaving them to earn just one more point from the remaining three games for a place in the semi-finals. The highlight was stolen by MS Dhoni who hoisted two sixes and a four to send the crowd into raptures.

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How E. Jean Carroll Would Advise a Woman in Her Shoes

She doesn’t call her Trump accusation rape. But here’s what she would say if it happened to someone else.

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Genoa bridge: Towers to be demolished with explosives

Residents are told to leave as experts prepare to demolish what remains of Italy's Morandi bridge.

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European heatwave: Temperature may reach highest on record in France

The current record stands at 44.1C (111.4F), reached in southern France in a 2003.

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Magnetic Attraction Of Microduino mCookie Modules

We’ve seen countless different robot kits promoted for STEM education, every one of which can perform the robotic “Hello World” task of line following. Many were in attendance at Maker Faire Bay Area 2019 toiling in their endless loops. Walking past one such display by Microduino, Inc. our attention was caught by a demonstration of their mCookie modules in action: installing a peripheral module took less than a second with a “click” of magnets finding each other.

Many Arduino projects draw from an ecosystem of Arduino shields. Following that established path, Microduino had offered tiny Arduino-compatible boards and peripherals which connected with pins and headers just like their full-sized counterparts. Unfortunately their tiny size also meant their risk of pin misalignment and corresponding damage would be higher as well. mCookie addresses this challenge by using pogo pins for electrical contacts, and magnets to ensure proper alignment. Now even children with not-quite-there-yet dexterity can assemble these modules, opening up a market to a younger audience.

Spring loaded electric connections are a popular choice for programming jigs, and we’ve seen them combined with magnets for ideas like modular keyboards, and there are also LittleBits for building simple circuits. When packaged with bright colorful LEGO-compatible plastic mounts, we have the foundation of an interesting option for introductory electronics and programming. Microduino’s focus at Maker Faire was promoting their Itty Bitty Buggy, which at $60 USD is a significantly more affordable entry point to intelligent LEGO creations than LEGO’s own $300 USD Mindstorm EV3. It’ll be interesting to see if these nifty mCookie modules will help Microduino differentiate themselves from other LEGO compatible electronic kits following a similar playbook.

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G20: PM Modi, Trump discuss trade, defence, 5G

PM Modi on Friday held bilateral talks with US President Donald Trump and discussed a host of key issues including trade, defence and 5G communications networks ahead of the formal opening of the G-20 Summit. Trump congratulated Modi on his election victory and said that the two countries would work together in many areas including military.

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Italy migrants: Pressure builds over Lampedusa rescue ship

It comes as Italy tries to clamp down on migrant rescue boats entering its territorial waters.

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A Former Hungarian Ambassador to the U.S. on How Rock Music Challenged the Soviet Union.

“Without rock and roll, I don’t think the Soviet Union would have broken up.”

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AI needs more health data if it's to help cure the world

Artificial intelligence could help tackle many of the world's health problems, experts say.

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Assam NRC: Are India’s ‘unwanted people’ being driven to suicide?

Citizens facing deportation are taking their lives, say activists who warn of a humanitarian disaster.

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What is the G20 summit, and what do world leaders talk about?

What is the G20, and what do they do when they meet?

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Why is an African chief's skull mentioned in the Versailles Treaty?

Chief Mkwawa died 16 years before WW1 began but his skull was mentioned in the treaty that ended the conflict.

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G20 live: Japan, India, US hold trilateral meeting

World leaders gather in Japan for one of the most high-stakes G20 meetings in years, with a bruising US-China trade war, geopolitical tensions, and climate change on the agenda. PM Modi will attend important plurilateral meetings and meet with the world leaders including US President Donald Trump. Stay here for all live updates

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8 Jony Ive parodies to help you process his Apple exit

Jony Ive is just too easy to parody. 

Apple announced the longtime chief design officer's departure from the company on Thursday. In a statement, the company said Ive will launch his own design firm with Apple as his main client. 

In the last decade, Ive has been particularly memorable for putting minimalism on a pedestal, explaining designs from the austere confines of a white background, and narrating product releases with his impossibly buttery voice. 

Jony Ive can finally come out of that white room he's been held in for three decades pic.twitter.com/Rw2hbv8ee2

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What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Thursday Democratic Debate

Check out the instant spin room.

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The Democrats’ Cringey Spanish Contest Is Better Than the Alternative

I, for one, welcome a little earnest pandering.

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Prosthetic limbs: An invention for amputees in the developing world

It's high-tech, it's cheap, and it's been designed for amputees in the developing world.

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Africa's top shots: 21-27 June 2019

A selection of the week's best photos from across the continent and beyond.

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What we know about Facebook's 'Supreme Court'

Facebook's "Supreme Court" is starting to take shape. 

More than six months after Mark Zuckerberg revealed his plan to create an "independent body" to review controversial content decisions, Facebook says it has made fresh progress on the effort. 

The company has spent the last several months hosting discussions and reviewing public feedback on its plans. On Thursday, the company published a 44-page paper that delves into those discussions and how it's thinking about the crucial decisions it faces. 

It's a long and complex process, but it's one that could dramatically impact some of Facebook's most consequential decisions. Here's what we know about it so far. Read more...

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Quiz of the Week: Which Pink song induced childbirth?

Have you been paying attention to what's been going on over the past seven days?

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Democratic debate: Heavyweights Biden and Sanders to duel

Ten hopefuls will be on stage, but all eyes will be on two heavyweights battling for the party's soul.

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'I rented a mouldy flat from the deputy mayor'

When Jennifer Mbon's flat grew a layer of black mould she discovered her landlord was one of Marseille's top politicians.

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64 JEE(A) top rankers opt for IIT-Bombay

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RBI 24-hrs 'deadline' for Google, Amazon, others

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In this Naga village, equal pay is not a dream

Equal pay for equal work has been made possible as women of Chizami fought and won parity in 2015, with courage and a little help from like-minded men

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1st in 30yrs: No J&K bandh on home minister visit

Interestingly, neither factions of the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq called for a shutdown on Wednesday. None of the separatists issued any statements either. Over the last three decades, separatist groups have been notorious for shutting down the valley each time a representative of the Central government visits.

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Pakistan open up the WC at New Zealand's expense

After restricting New Zealand to 237/6, led by a three-wicket opening burst by left-arm pacer Shaheen Afridi, Pakistan won the match in Birmingham by six wickets riding on Babar Azam's 101 not out.

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Father, baby drown chasing American dream

The portrait of desperation was captured on Monday by journalist Julia Le Duc, in the hours after Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez drowned with his 23-month-old daughter, Valeria, as they tried to cross from Mexico to the US. The image represents a poignant distillation of the perilous journey migrants face on their passage north to the US, and the tragic consequences that often go unseen in the loud and caustic debate over border policy.

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TOI Top10: Will Jaishankar get what Sushma didn’t?

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WC: How India & Windies stack up for the big game

After India's struggle against Afghanistan, the task for Virat & Co against the mercurial Windies is easier said than, as the Caribbean teams remains unpredictable as ever and thus a serious scare.

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'I never thought twice about my sexuality'

At the age of 17, when he wasn’t certain about most things in his life, there was just one exception. Manish Arora was confident that his sexuality was nothing that “needs to be discussed”. “I never had a doubt about my sexuality even as a teenager. But did I ever feel a need to talk about it? No. May be because I thought, ‘Why do I need to discuss it?’ Straight people do not go around telling the world about who they are, so why should I be ‘discussing’ it? I always believed that you should not justify who you are to anyone,” he says.

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10 things not to do while charging your device

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WhatsApp for Android is getting this new feature

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Cory Booker's peeved reaction to Beto speaking Spanish at the debate is an instant meme

Ever felt threatened by someone else's fancy language skills?

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker seemed to feel just that during the Democratic Debate on Wednesday night, when rival candidate Beto O'Rourke flexed his Spanish skills first.

When Beto was asked if he would support a higher tax rate for top earners, he responded by stating that the economy needed to "work for everyone." Beto then switched mid-answer to Spanish, and Booker was caught glaring in his wake.

Booker, of course, can also speak SpanishHe made his pitch to voters when he called into Univision's Despierta América when he announced his candidacy back in February. Read more...

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PackProbe Reports Laptop Battery Health

The 18650 cell has become a ubiquitous standard in the lithium battery world. From power drills to early Tesla vehicles, these compact cells power all manner of portable devices. A particularly common use is in laptop batteries, where they’re often built into a pack using the Smart Battery System. This creates a smart battery that can communicate and report on its own status. PackProbe is a software tool built to communicate with these batteries, and you might just find it comes in handy.

The code runs on the WiFi-enabled Arduino Yún by default, but can be easily modified to suit other Arduino platforms. Communicating over SMBus using the Arduino’s I2C hardware, it’s capable of working with the vast majority of laptop batteries out there which comply with the Smart Battery System. With that standard being minted in 1994, it’s spread far and wide these days.

It’s a great way to harvest not only the specifications and manufacturing details of your laptop battery pack, but also to check on the health of the battery. This can give a clear idea over whether the battery is still usable, as well as whether the cells are worth harvesting for those in the recycling business.

You’re not limited to just the Arduino, though. There’s a similar tool available for the ESP8266, too.

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Australian student arrested in North Korea, reports say

Media reports have identified him as Alek Sigley, a 29-year-old masters student living in Pyongyang.

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Libya crisis: UN-backed government 'retakes' key town of Gharyan

Gharyan was a main supply base for an offensive on Tripoli by insurgents loyal to Khalifa Haftar.

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Appeals over Russia holiday camp deaths

Three years ago, tragedy struck for a group of children out on boats at Lake Syamozero in Russia's Karelia region.

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PM Modi arrives in Japan for G20 Summit

"The summit will provide an important opportunity to reiterate and reinforce our strong support to reformed multilateralism, which is crucial for preserving rule-based international order in today's fast-changing world," PM Modi said. This will be Prime Minister Modi's sixth G20 Summit, which is being held at Osaka on June 28-29.

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Specially trained dogs try to save threatened turtle species

Conservation groups in the Midwest are taking an unconventional approach to tracking rare and threatened turtles on their lands by using a John Rucker, a Montana man who helps track the ornate box turtles with the help of his seven dogs.

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What Twitter’s Smartest Liberals and Conservatives Are Saying About the Wednesday Democratic Debate

Check out the instant spin room.

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Rio Grande drowning: 'I knew it was the last time I would see my son'

The mother of a man who drowned trying to cross into the US recalls the moment he set out on the journey.

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Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is 'evaluating' deepfake policy

Facebook may soon have new rules for "deepfakes." 

That's according to Mark Zuckerberg, who said Wednesday that the company is currently discussing specific policies that would police deepfakes, a term that refers to videos that have been realistically manipulated using artificial intelligence.

The issue was recently thrust into the spotlight after a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi went viral on the platform. The video, which experts said had been slowed down, made the Speaker of the House's speech sound slurred as if she were drunk. Facebook's fact checkers eventually marked the video as false, but it had already spread widely before Facebook down-ranked it in users' News Feeds. Read more...

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Russia says Georgia isn't safe. Russians in Georgia say otherwise

Russian citizens in Georgia say otherwise.

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The tropical islands that fell into ruin

A picture of decline mars Australia's Great Barrier Reef, where a number of island resorts lie derelict.

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Why Morocco could be next for revolution, after Sudan and Algeria

Half of Moroccans asked by a major BBC Arabic survey say they want immediate political change.

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Bit Preserve: A Sanctuary For Modern Captures Of Vintage Schematics

Vintage parts may be documented, but that doesn’t mean they’re particularly useful or accessible. If the phrase “eyestrain from unsearchable, badly-scanned PDF datasheets” makes your lower eyelid twitch in sympathy, read on.

While [Bald Engineer] was researching how he might make a portable Apple II, he was delighted to find that the vintage components he needed to examine were documented. However, he became frustrated with the seemingly endless number of poor quality PDF scans and the inability to search effectively. He decided to re-create the entire Apple IIgs schematic in KiCad, and in the process the Bit Preserve project was born. The goal is to act as a safe haven for modern and editable versions of vintage electronic schematics. The GitHub repository can be found here.

[Bald Engineer] talks a bit about his Apple II project, as well as the ideas behind the Bit Preserve project in his KiCon 2019 talk “Preserving History with KiCad”. KiCon was wild, and we have loads of photos of the projects and details so be sure to check it out.

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Guptas asked to pay Rs8L to clean up Auli mess

The Uttarakhand government has asked the NRI Gupta family to pay an amount of Rs 8 lakh to clean up 275 quintals of garbage that the family's grand weddings in Auli had generated.

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Europe Is Bracing for a Heat Wave. It’s the New Normal.

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A Mystery Disease Is Killing Children, and Questions Linger About Lychees

By ROD NORDLAND from NYT World https://ift.tt/2RzdVh3

What Happened at the Democratic Debate? Jimmy Fallon Will Let You Know

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Tempers Flare as the Phillies Strike Late Against the Mets

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Your Wednesday Briefing

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Fireflies are lighting up lives of Maha villagers

Locals are opening up their homes and kitchens to tourists who throng to see the insects put up a magical light show

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Mike Pompeo arrives amid row over trade, Russia ties

'Defence relationship with Russia can't be wished away'

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Australia beat England to reach World Cup semis

Australia captain Aaron Finch hit a hundred before left-arm quicks Jason Behrendorff and Mitchell Starc shared nine wickets as the reigning champions thumped England by 64 runs on Tuesday to book their place in the World Cup semifinals.

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How low iPhone sales is good news for you & Samsung

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23 phones that got price cuts of up to Rs 27,501

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Arnold Schwarzenegger pushes gas guzzlers as undercover car salesperson

Do it now! 

That's sleazy used car salesman Howard Kleiner back in action, this time trying to get would-be electric car buyers hyped about gas-guzzling, fossil fuel-burning cars. 

Except it's — surprise! — former California governor, body builder, and movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger with a fake mustache and wig. He's just pretending to be a salesman obsessed with muscle cars that burn tons of gas as part of a campaign to get more people informed about electric vehicles. 

"We need to get off fossil fuels as quickly as we can," the governator said in a phone call this week.

The tongue-in-cheek video is part of EV coalition Veloz's "Kicking Gas" and Electric For All campaign to bring more electric cars to California and beyond. The organization works with automakers, utilities, government agencies, charging networks, and other transportation groups to raise awareness about electric vehicles. Read more...

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Making An Update Server For PythonAnywhere And GitHub

Cloud based IDEs and development tools have grown over the years, though most have limitations in their free tiers and may not be fully compatible with other services such as GitHub. [Aadi Bajpai] loved using PythonAnywhere and to collaborate using GitHub, so he made a update server that automatically updates the running code once you make a push to Github

PythonAnywhere gives you access to a python shell over a web browser, and also lets you run a web app that can be accessed via a custom sub-domain. Even though it does not have direct integration with GitHub, you can drop to the bash shell to and get access to a git client.

For this hack, [Aadi Bajpai] utilizes the webhooks from GitHub that are triggered when a push event is detected. A flask server running on PythonAnywhere is written such that once triggered by the get POST request, it locally executes a git pull from the repository. There a bit more work that allows adding a bit of security sauce to the recipe but it is a pretty elegant solution and can be used for other cases as well.

Setting up alert notifications has been demonstrated to be an interesting task, though integrating Discord or Slack for notifications adds a little more bragging rights.

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Lula: Brazil court rejects request to free ex-president pending appeal

Judges dismissed a request to free the ex-president and delayed a decision on his latest appeal.

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The Devastating Oddness of E. Jean Carroll’s Trump Accusation

Carroll already knows the ways she will fail expectations.

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India best catching side of this World Cup

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How Mumbai police van is helping US visa seekers

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Westerners 'fuelling Philippine child sex video rise'

Philippine children are being forced into online sex abuse videos by family, paid for by people in the West.

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For Joy-Ann Reid, Women Could Be The “Hungriest Constituency” in 2020—And Get What They Want.

Black voters swung the vote in 2008, and white xenophobic ones in 2016. In 2020, women could fill that role.

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Guptas asked to pay Rs 8 lakh to clean up Auli mess

The Uttarakhand government has asked the NRI Gupta family to pay an amount of Rs 8 lakh to clean up 275 quintals of garbage that the family's grand weddings in Auli had generated.

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Drink driving may soon attract a fine of Rs 10,000

The government is set to introduce changes in the Motor Vehicle Act to introduce stiffer penalties - including fine and jail-for traffic violators. The bill, likely to be introduced in Parliament in the next few days, proposes Rs 10,000 fine for drink driving and blocking way of emergency vehicles, including ambulance, fire brigade and PCRs among other things.

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Beauty queen 'raped by Gambia's ex-President Jammeh'

Three women tell HRW how they were assaulted by the now exiled leader - allegations his party deny.

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Plasma Globe Reveals Your Next Clue

If you like solving puzzles out in the real world, you’ve probably been to an escape room before, or are at least familiar with its concept of getting (voluntarily) locked inside a place and searching for clues that will eventually lead to a key or door lock combination that gets you out again. And while there are plenty of analog options available to implement this, the chances are you will come across more and more electronics-infused puzzles nowadays, especially if it fits the escape room’s theme itself. [Alastair Aitchison] likes to create such puzzles and recently discovered how he can utilize a USB powered plasma globe as a momentary switch in one of his installations.

The concept is pretty straightforward, [Alastair] noticed the plasma globe will draw significantly more current when it’s being touched compared to its idle state, which he measures using an INA219 current shunt connected to an Arduino. As a demo setup in his video, he uses two globes that will trigger a linear actuator when touched at the same time, making it an ideal multiplayer installation. Whether the amount of fingers, their position on the globe, or movement make enough of a reliable difference in the current consumption to implement a more-dimensional switch is unfortunately not clear, but definitely something worth experimenting with.

In case you’re planning to build your own escape room and are going for the Mad Scientist Laboratory theme, you’ll obviously need at least one of those plasma globes sparking in a corner anyway, so this will definitely come in handy — maybe even accompanied by something slightly larger? And for all other themes, you can always resort to an RFID-based solution instead.

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Nissan Reappoints Saikawa to Board as Shareholders Hammer Renault

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Giannis Antetokounmpo Is Named M.V.P. at N.B.A. Awards

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$490 bn in black money stashed abroad by Indians

Studies conducted by three premier institutes — NIPFP, NCAER and NIFM — have concluded that unaccounted wealth held by Indians outside the country till 2010 could be as high as $490 billion, besides black money parked within the country as ‘investments’ in sectors like real estate, mining, tobacco/gutka, bullion, films and education.

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Airbnb Enters the ‘Luxe’ Market

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Yankees Hit Home Run in 27th Straight Game, Tying Major League Record

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SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s 3rd Launch — How to Watch

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World Cup: India's resilience set to be tested

At about the halfway stage, India are well placed for a semifinal spot. But a busy, and potentially rocky, period is coming up for the Men in Blue. The four remaining games will throw different challenges at India but first they have to take care of West Indies. Other than being a test of skill, it's also an examination of endurance and lasting power.

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Humour: Funny captions to this picture of Kohli

DISCLAIMER: This is a compilation of humour being shared by netizens around the world. Times of India neither condones nor endorses any of the views shared in this article here. The subject matter is intended purely as satire.

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6 no-nos for FB, Twitter if you want to study in US

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Famed Mexican rescue dog Frida retires after nine years' duty

Frida is credited with saving the lives of 12 people and has worked across four different countries.

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Criminals using 7 Google apps to empty your bank a/c

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Arm yourself with business administration degree

With industry and economy such a huge part of modern life, a study programme to equip oneself for the world of business and finances is a logical desire for undergraduate students

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When jaadugar fails to defy death

Like Mandrake, desi magicians bereft of tech and expert back-up are risking lives

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Japanese MNC bids record Rs 2,238 crore for three-acre BKC plot

Japanese conglomerate Sumitomo has shaken Mumbai's dormant property market by submitting a whopping bid of Rs 2,238 crore for a three-acre plot in Bandra-Kurla Complex.

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Small Lightsail Will Propel Cubesat

If you read science fiction, you are probably familiar with the idea of a light or solar sail. A very large and lightweight sail catches solar “wind” that accelerates a payload connected to the sail. Some schemes replace the sun with a laser. Like most things, sails have pros and cons. They don’t require you to carry fuel, but they are also maddeningly slow to accelerate and require huge sails since there isn’t much pressure produced by a star at a distance. So far not many real spacecraft have used the technique, IKAROS was the first back in 2010. However, this month should see the launch of a crowdfunded cubesat that will use a solar sail to move to a higher orbit.

The 5 kg satellite built by Georgia Tech students is about the size of a loaf of bread. Once in orbit, it will deploy solar panels and a square solar sail nearly 20 feet long on each side. Despite the nearly 350 square feet of area, the sail is less than 5 microns thick. You can see more details about the mission in the video below.

It is tempting to think of solar sails as a true analog to wind sails, but the analogy only goes so far. Tacking with a sailboat depends on the interaction between the wind pressure above and water pressure below. In space, there’s no other pressure to work with. However, according to the Solar Sails Wiki, you can change the angle of attack on the sail to cause your orbit around the sun to get bigger or smaller, which is a bit like tacking.

Since light pressure can constantly accelerate a sailing vehicle, you can achieve interstellar speeds with some patience. Then again, some people think alien light sails are already whizzing through our solar system.

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Microsoft's foldable Surface could support Android apps

`````````Microsoft's next Surface could be unlike any other, and not just because it will be foldable.

A new report in Forbes reveals more details about the rumored device, and it sounds like the next-generation Surface will be a serious departure from previous versions of the product. The report, which was based off a market research firm's "supply chain sources," claims that the fold-up Surface will have dual 9-inch displays, LTE or possibly 5G support, and will launch in the first half of 2020.

It's not clear if the "foldable" Surface refers to simply a collapsible dual-screen device, or to a truly flexible display. Previous reports have indicated that Microsoft is prepping Windows 10 for both such scenarios. And rumors of a foldable Surface have been swirling for nearly a year. Read more...

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Everything we learned about computer viruses from '90s films

If you know how to protect your mainframe from the backdoor trojan worm that’s duplicated the virus code malware drive in the reboot server, uh, code, then this article isn’t for you. If it sounds made up and like a movie script from the '90s, then keep reading unless you want your identity stolen and used on the dark web to buy caviar and rhino horn.

Unless you can type as well as the guy below (a government official in the original 1995 film Ghost in the Shell), or you've already got a cybersecurity solution like Bitdefender set up, then the world of computer viruses and hacking can be real confusing — but important to know. Read more...

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E. Jean Carroll’s Advice Columns Have Been Confronting Sick Sexual Power Dynamics for Decades

As in her New York magazine excerpt, the content is disturbing, but the tone retains its self-assured, emotionally removed fizz.

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Can same-sex marriages be a reality in India?

Government benefits, pension, post-separation maintenance are some of the common issues that continue to haunt those who have tied the knot

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Highest priority to sufficiently equip forces: Rajnath

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Trump's 'deal of the century' falls flat in West Bank

Palestinians in the occupied West Bank say Donald Trump's economic master plan does not help them.

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Split with SP final, will fight polls on our own: Maya

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FBI traps Nagpur exporter in Prague over ‘drug racket’

Jeetendra Belani, a pharmaceutical exporter, was arrested in Prague in Czech Republic on June 3 for allegedly supplying in US ‘controlled’ medicines that can be sold only under prescription. United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Czech police nabbed Belani and his friend Nishant Satpute after laying a trap. It is likely many more in India are under FBI scanner for similar operations.

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5 months on, no sign of boat with 243 on board

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Xiaomi has 'good news' for user of these 12 phones

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Caching In on Program Performance

Most of us have a pretty simple model of how a computer works. The CPU fetches instructions and data from memory, executes them, and writes data back to memory. That model is a good enough abstraction for most of what we do, but it hasn’t really been true for a long time on anything but the simplest computers. A modern computer’s memory subsystem is much more complex and often is the key to unlocking real performance. [Pdziepak] has a great post about how to take practical advantage of modern caching to improve high-performance code.

If you go back to 1956, [Tom Kilburn’s] Atlas computer introduced virtual memory based on the work of a doctoral thesis by [Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch]. The idea is that a small amount of high-speed memory holds pieces of a larger memory device like a memory drum, tape, or disk. If a program accesses a piece of memory that is not in the high-speed memory, the system reads from the mass storage device, after possibly making room by writing some part of working memory back out to the mass storage device.

Caching takes this even further. The CPU executes code from a small but very fast cache. A larger and slower cache acts as mass storage for the fast cache. That cache may have its own cache until eventually one of the caches empties into a mass storage device. Naturally, there are some differences since the purpose is different: cache is mainly concerned with faster memory access while virtual memory tries to allow large programs to run in less physical memory.

However, this is a lot different than our common mental model. In a very real sense, today’s modern CPUs execute programs from mass storage. That’s why you can have many huge programs running on a single computer with limited memory. However, the CPU really executes from a very small high-speed memory.

A modern cache is often split into separate parts for instruction and data, and [Pdziepak] is looking specifically at the level 1 instruction cache. It gets pretty detailed, but it does talk about tools to examine cache performance and also about hot and cold functions, something we don’t think gets enough use.

Of course, if you are just writing normal code, you probably don’t care. But if you are trying to wring the most performance you can get out of your CPU, you’ll enjoy the post.

Unfortunately, the cache has had a bad security rep lately. Although Meltdown and Spectre got most of the press, there’s also Foreshadow.

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Israel Folau: Rugby star's fundraiser shut down over anti-gay views

Israel Folau had sought donations to fight his sacking by Rugby Australia over social media posts.

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Watch the Trailer for The Terror: Infamy, a Work of Historical Fiction With No Relevance to Anything Our Country Is Currently Doing

Turn your brain off and enjoy!

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Mauritania opposition challenges ruling party victory

Four candidates have rejected the result and said they will use "all legal means" to challenge it.

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Selling a Mission to Space

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