Новости за 21.12.2017

Artificial intelligence can generate fresh patterns in data with astonishing speed, efficiency, and verisimilitude. Over the past few years, it has become commonplace for AI to algorithmically generate any object that can be rendered digitally.

It's that time of year again. You're trying to figure out what you're going to donate before the tax year is over, and Wikipedia is covering its webpage with a desperate-sounding plea that makes it sound like if you don't pony up then Wikipedia will be off the internet tomorrow.

2017 was a good year for Google Cloud Platform. But 2018 promises to be even better. Although Google still sits well behind Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in cloud revenue, with just 2.3 percent market share against AWS’s 44.1 percent and Azure’s 7.1 percent, according to Gartner data, 2018 could well prove Google’s breakout year.

In the 1990s, feminism mostly took the form of a vibrator. It was peak sexual positivity time: We had women like Susie Bright, Tristin Taormino and Betty Dodson writing sex advice columns with a feminist edge; Annie Sprinkle dressing up like a giant vulva; Inga Muscio telling us to reclaim the word “cunt”; Nancy Friday and Eve Ensler advocating for women to explore their sexual fantasies; and magazines like On Our Backs and Bust reviewing vibrators as if they were radical texts and teaching us how to demand pleasure from our sexual partners.

This company leases heavy equipment, and that means it has repair facilities spread out across the U.S., reports a pilot fish whose job is to help keep the remote sites connected with HQ.

Devoir débourser 1371 $ et accumuler 14 points d'inaptitude ou encore recevoir une contravention de 1734 $ accompagnée de 10 points d'inaptitude, ça porte à réfléchir. Le nombre d'infractions pour les grands excès de vitesse a diminué de 74 % au Québec depuis l'adoption d'une réglementation beaucoup plus sévère en la matière.

A manuscript of Balzac's novel "Ursule Mirouet" sold for 1.17 million euros ($1.38 million) at auction in Paris late Wednesday, as the world's biggest private collection of French literary texts went under the hammer.

Die lang erwartete Studie zu den Wiener Islam-Kindergärten ist am Donnerstag präsentiert worden. Sie zeigt, dass die Religion zunehmend aus den Einrichtungen gedrängt wurde. "Wir können sehr klar nachweisen, dass es insbesondere seit 2015 einen dramatischen Rückgang von Religion, vor allem in Einrichtungen, die einen Bezug zum Islam haben, gibt", sagte Henning Schluß von der Universität Wien.

Die lang erwartete Studie zu den Wiener Islam-Kindergärten ist am Donnerstag präsentiert worden. Sie zeigt, dass die Religion zunehmend aus den Einrichtungen gedrängt wurde. "Wir können sehr klar nachweisen, dass es insbesondere seit 2015 einen dramatischen Rückgang von Religion, vor allem in Einrichtungen, die einen Bezug zum Islam haben, gibt", sagte Henning Schluß von der Universität Wien.

Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about Tuesday: 1. WHAT CONGRESS NEEDS TO PASS NEXT Lawmakers hope to approve a must-pass spending bill as the clock ticks toward potential government shutdown this weekend. 2. CAR RAMS CROWD IN AUSTRALIA Two men are arrested after the car in which they were travelling crashed into pedestrians on a busy central Melbourne street, leaving up to 19 people injured. 3. SOUTH KOREA FIRES WARNING SHOTS AFTER NORTH... Читать дальше...

Die Juristin Inés Arrimadas ist die leuchtende Hoffnung der Unabhängigkeitsgegner in Katalonien. Die 36-jährige Oppositionschefin ist strikt gegen eine Abspaltung der Region von Spanien. Gelingt ihr bei der Wahl zum Regionalparlament eine Sensation?Barcelona (dpa) - In Europa gab es kaum ein komplizierteres Amt als das, was Inés Arrimadas zuletzt bekleidete: Oppositionsführerin in der spanischen Krisenregion Katalonien. Aber mit ihren deutlichen Stellungnahmen gegen die Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen... Читать дальше...

A midsummer afternoon years ago. We were apart so long that together we seemed as one for all time. It was July in the wild and wonderful mountain country. I watched you quietly reclining on a flat rock near the middle of a creek. The sun blazed down all over us and we lit up bright from within. A golden silence. Your hair glowing sunshine. In your beautiful quiet. Your eyes gazed down deep into and under water. Slowly searching inward for what was and what may become. Innocence lost and found. Читать дальше...

He was the nearly man of the first democratic elections in 1994, the man Nelson Mandela wanted to be his deputy president, only for his possible candidature to be thwarted by the influential “exiles” bloc of ANC leaders.

But on Monday, more than two decades later, Cyril Ramaphosa, completed an amazing comeback when 2240 delegates out of 4776 voted for him to become the new president of the ANC.

Baku / 21.12.17 / Turan: Today at around noon the police received information about explosives in the building of the Baku railway station. Specialists of the Ministry for Emergency Situations and other structures carry out search activities, Sevina Gadirova, the head of the public relations department of Azerbaijan Railways CJSC, told Turan. According to her, people were evacuated from the station building, ticket sales were suspended. At this time, according to the schedule, there were ...

The year’s coming to a close, and as always the season is marked by year-end best of lists. I'm not quite done putting the finishing touches on mine because I actually wait to finalize my picks until the year is over, unlike all those overeager types who want you to forget music is sometimes released in December too. But while reviewing 2017's releases, I remembered a few records that I somehow hadn't managed to write about.

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The Foreign Office (FO) on Thursday warned against a "malicious campaign" being used to trivialise Pakistan's achievements in the war against terrorism, days after United States (US) President Donald Trump announced a new National Security Strategy (NSS) which is tough on Pakistan.

The Ogun state National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) coordinator John Okpo on Wednesday, December 20, spoke on the suspected killer of its member Tawose Modupe.

Advent calendars, chocolate Santa decorations ... there are lots of tempting treats that could make your pooch very ill this Christmas.

A football novelty match was organised in honour of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara who will be turning 50 on December 26.

A football novelty match was organised in honour of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara who will be turning 50 on December 26.

A football novelty match was organised in honour of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon Yakubu Dogara who will be turning 50 on December 26.

Die NEOS haben die nötigen Unterstützungserklärungen gesammelt und werden bei der niederösterreichischen Landtagswahl am 28. Jänner 2018 landesweit kandidieren. Als Themenschwerpunkte nannte Spitzenkandidatin Indra Collini am Donnerstag Nachhaltigkeit, etwa auch im Hinblick auf Schulden, sowie Freiheit und Kontrolle. Das Wahlkampfbudget der NEOS beträgt 400.000 Euro.