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Big Data

Elastic: Big Data Needs Effective Search To Drive Value

Elastic N.V. (ESTC) is a provider of opensource software which is used in applications like real time search and analytics. Elastics rapid growth is being driven by a rapid growth in the volume of data being generated globally and the need for improved search…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Climate Change

Climate change pushing Australia’s platypus towards extinction: researchers

Prolonged drought and other effects of climate change are pushing Australia's unique platypus population towards extinction, scientists warned in a study published Monday. The river-dwelling animal has already disappeared from up to 40 percent of its histori…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Fortnite

Fortnite Partners With TikTok For An Emote Contest

Fortnite is one of the world's most popular video games. TikTok is one of the world's most popular apps. Now, the two are joining forces for a new crossover campaign.The Emote Royal Contest on TikTok is a new challenge that Epic and the makers of the uber-popular app have announced.…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Star Wars

Wolf Puppies, Coke Energy and the Last Vestige of Internet Explorer: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Clockwise from top left: Christina Hansen Wheat, Gizmodo, Alex Cranz and Alex Cranz.Illustration: Various.To celebrate this three-day weekend, we’re going to share some pretty adorable news: Wolf puppies can play fetch. Isn’t that cool? Yes, I know, these are wolf puppies. They’re probably a lot more dangerous when they grow…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Refugees

Medical test ordeal for young African migrants in Spain

Image caption Unaccompanied children who come to Spain are often known as "Menas" Maria was 15, according to her paperwork, when she fled Cameroon by plane to Madrid. She had suffered domestic sexual abuse and was about to be forcibly married to an older man.But Spanish authorities did not believe…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Colin Kaepernick

Raheem Mostert’s 36-yard rushing TD puts 49ers on scoreboard first

SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- It's safe to say third-and-8 isn't a normal running situation, but when you're the San Francisco 49ers with one of the best rushing attacks in the NFL, there might be no such thing. Facing third-and-8 at the Green Bay Packers' 36 with …

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Ukraine

Trump impeachment: What’s Ukraine got to do with it?

The impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump is about to begin. While all the wrangling between Democrats and Republicans over this case has been based exclusively in Washington, the reason Mr Trump has been impeached lies thousands of miles away on another continent. Paul Adams, BBC diplomatic correspondent, has…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Global Warming

Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming

Climate change in the Arctic is shrinking the region's cap of sea ice.Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Gases that deplete the ozone layer could be responsible for up to half of the effects of climate change observed in the Arctic from 1955 to 200…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Global Warming

Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming

Climate change in the Arctic is shrinking the region's cap of sea ice.Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group/Getty Gases that deplete the ozone layer could be responsible for up to half of the effects of climate change observed in the Arctic from 1955 to 200…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Big Data

America’s census looks out of date in the age of big data

Jan 20th 2020 A DOG-SLED or a snowmobile is the surest way to reach Toksook Bay in rural Alaska, where Steven Dillingham, the director of Americas census bureau, will arrive to count the first people in the countrys decennial population survey on January 21s…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Elastic: Big Data Needs Effective Search To Drive Value

Climate change pushing Australia’s platypus towards extinction: researchers

Fortnite Partners With TikTok For An Emote Contest

Wolf Puppies, Coke Energy and the Last Vestige of Internet Explorer: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Medical test ordeal for young African migrants in Spain

Raheem Mostert’s 36-yard rushing TD puts 49ers on scoreboard first

Trump impeachment: What’s Ukraine got to do with it?

Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming

Ozone-depleting gases might have driven extreme Arctic warming

America’s census looks out of date in the age of big data

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