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Israel kills 42 in Gaza as Netanyahu warns war will go on

By FARES AKRAM and RAVI NESSMAN GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli airstrikes on Gaza City flattened three buildings and killed at least 42 people Sunday, Palestinian medics said, in the deadliest single attack in...

Bill Gates was dismissive toward Melinda Gates at work and pursued female employees at Microsoft and the Gates Foundation: NYT report

Melinda French Gates and Bill Gates. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Bill Gates was dismissive toward his wife Melinda French Gates in meetings, The New York Times reported. According to the report, sources said Gates...

What Is the Gig Economy and What Is a Gig Worker?

As more and more people look online to earn a living, the gig economy continues to expand. If you’re looking for work or just a small side income, so-called “gigs” are well worth considering. Completing small...

An exclusive interview with market sage Jeremy Grantham, plus wisdom from a 29-year-old crypto billionaire

Hello everyone! Welcome to this weekly roundup of Investing stories from deputy editor Joe Ciolli. Please subscribe here to get this newsletter in your inbox every week. Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images for ReSource...

Test Driven Development in Both OOP and FP

Skip Intro, Show me the Vids I’ve been watching a lot of Dave Farley’s YouTube channel lately, and it’s spawned a lot of gears in my head. One in particular is “translating OOP people”. Specifically, our...

How to use map(), filter(), and reduce() in JavaScript

Make your code more functionalPhoto by Joshua Aragon on UnsplashIt is difficult to imagine functional programming without the map, filter, and reduce methods, and improper understanding of their operation can lead to...

The Many Ways of Fetching API Data

From Fetch API, to useEffect and AxiosLately, I’ve been trying to expand my data fetching abilities as I work on different projects. There are actually many ways to fetch API data. In this blog, I will go over the...

The 7 Best Speedometer Apps for Android and iOS

There might have been situations when you were running, cycling, or traveling, and you wanted to see how fast you were going. Well, you don’t actually need a speedometer to measure your speed, as your smartphone can do this for you. There are some apps that you can install on your smartphone that use GPS to measure your speed based on the change in your location with time. Here are the best speedometer apps for Android and...

University Of California System Will No Longer Consider SAT And ACT Scores For Admissions

University Of California System Will No Longer Consider SAT And ACT Scores For Admissions Authored by Ivan Pentchoukov via The Epoch Times, The nine campuses of the University of California system will no longer...

Repurpose a Monitor Arm as Microscope Mount

Being a bit shocked at the prices of articulating arm microscope mounts, not to mention the shipping fees to the UK, [CapTec] realized they looked substantially similar to your typical computer monitor arm mount....

Recovering From the Pandemic: How Retailers Can Encourage Customers to Return to Stores

Whenever there was a government assessment of the lockdown situation, I would literally stick to the screen for possible answers for the future. As a consumer, of course, one asks oneself what the situation will be like...

Coronavirus: About 39% of Orange County’s population is fully vaccinated as of May 16

The OC Health Care Agency reported 52 new cases of the coronavirus on Sunday, May 16, increasing the cumulative total in the county to 254,744 cases since tracking began. There were 700 new infections reported in the...

Nathan MacKinnon returns for Game 1 after missing four of the last five games

Nathan MacKinnon returned to full form Sunday, a day before the Avalanche opens the playoffs with a Game 1 series against the St. Louis Blues at Ball Arena. MacKinnon, the Avs’ top-line center and perennial Hart...

Relative vs. General Price Changes

Or, between identities vs. functions. Reader Corev comments: … I’m amazed at the willful deceit and cognitive dissonance exhibited by liberals, especially economists. With production components, commodities’...