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#applications

Reddit, the "front page of the internet," is making front-page news today, as many of the site's moderators have made their communities private or restricted to protest recent changes to the platform.Many of the platform's largest subreddits, including r/pics, r/gaming and r/music, are preventing users from viewing or posting in an effort to draw attention to announced changes that would charge third-party apps to access Reddit's content a move third-party developers say would put their applications out of business.

Observability has evolved from a specialized platform and site reliability engineering discipline to a massive market in the "you build it, you run it" era.Ten years into Grafana's open source journey, the project has made observability accessible to a huge audience of developers.Grafana couldn't have come at a better time.

With .NET Core, you can build a wide variety of applications and services that work on any operating system-web, mobile and desktop apps, games, microservices, internet of things, and more.But how do you know if your application is running slow?And how do you determine whether you are spending money on unnecessary resources?

One of the key responsibilities of a chief technology officer (CTO) is to help define an organization's technology strategy.This includes identifying tools and services that can deliver benefits in a cost-effective manner, and help organizations remain innovative and competitive.I recently asked five CTOs to identify the technology areas that are particularly strategic or promising for their organizations.

Observability has evolved from a specialized platform and site reliability engineering discipline to a massive market in the "you build it, you run it" era.Ten years into Grafana's open source journey, the project has made observability accessible to a huge audience of developers.Grafana couldn't have come at a better time.

DevOps is a culture that has emerged in the IT industry to address the challenges of software development and deployment.The term DevOps is a combination of two words, Development, and Operations.It is a set of practices that aims to bring together the development and operations teams to achieve better collaboration, communication, and efficiency in software development and deployment.

Though he grew up just a few miles away, Jonah Markowitz, a photographer and documentarian based in Brooklyn, knew little about the neighborhood of Kensington before 2021.That's when he noticed, in New York City data from the year before, that an outsize portion of applications for new business licenses came from the area that included Kensington.

With just over a week to go until election day, Municipal Affairs Reporter Shawn Jeffords weighs in on some key questions about where the race to become Toronto's next mayor is going in the final days.What's the last week of this thing going to look like?We'll see more campaign announcements and a shift to rallies where candidates can project confidence and a sense of momentum ahead of election day.

Apple unveiled the AirTag in 2021, leaving a lot of people confused why it wasn't designed like conventional existing device trackers.Most trackers from Chipolo and Tile have one thing in common - they're designed to be slim enough to fit right in your wallet.Apple's AirTag, on the other hand, was like a bulbous disc that was too thick to slip into your wallet or attach to your passport.

Time and advice, Abraham Lincoln famously said, are a lawyer's stock in trade.If so, then the two most important tools in a law practice may just be the calendar and the document management system.Through the calendar, the lawyer manages time, and through documents the lawyer dispenses and memorializes advice.

Unreal Engine, a real-time 3D creation platform developed by Epic Games, designed for video game development, is now transforming the way films and animations are made.To discover how and why Unreal Engine can impact the film industry I met director Tim Richardson, the filmmaker, whose work includes projects for Billie Eilish, Givenchy and Nike.

A pride progress flag hangs on a building in November 2022 in London.Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images LONDON The United Kingdom is expanding an amnesty program to overturn convictions for gay and lesbian activity that previously was outlawed.Starting Tuesday, women in England and Wales can apply to have outdated criminal convictions related to homosexuality expunged from their records.

The New South Wales government is being pushed to make rentals animal-friendly sooner as pet owners find it increasingly hard to find a home and pounds see an influx of renters giving up their pets.Labor promised in the lead-up to the election that it would make it easier for renters to own pets, with plans to give landlords 21 days to respond to a renter's request to own a pet.

(Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott didn't exactly give California a heads-up before moving 42 migrants, including eight children, from his state to Los Angeles this week.Nevertheless, when the migrants arrived at Union Station, they found organizations ready to help them, including the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights.

The Cook County Democratic Party met Friday for its second day of pre-slating, a traditional meet-and-greet that gives hopeful candidates the chance to make their pitches - and also often lays bare internal party rifts and past grudges.Aside from judges' seats, two key races are on 2024 ballots countywide: state's attorney and circuit court clerk.

A campaigner for victims of historical abuse who witnessed two teenagers being injured on Bloody Sunday has declined the chance to be made an MBE in the King's Birthday Honours.Jon McCourt is the chairman and co-founder of Survivors North West, a campaign group that advocated for a formal inquiry into historical abuse in institutions in Northern Ireland.

Further applications for artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS are on the horizon in a bid to free up doctors' time and provide better support to patients.Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England, said patients are already benefiting from advancements in technology.In stroke care, AI is already in use in more than four out of five stroke networks, helping clinicians to reduce the time to deliver effective treatment by an hour, tripling the number of stroke patients recovering with no or only slight disability from one in six, to just under half.

Suella Braverman is scrapping some of Priti Patel's flagship asylum rules after less than a year in operation, as the government claims its new bill is considerably stronger.In a written statement quietly published on the parliamentary website on Thursday afternoon, immigration minister Robert Jenrick said officials would stop affording refugees different rights on the basis of how they arrived in the UK.

Last summer, Ryan Castellucci was travelling on a train in the UK when a conductor began to walk down the carriage checking people's tickets.As he went, the conductor addressed each passenger as "sir" or "ma'am", until he got to Castellucci's seat.Then, Castellucci tells The Independent, "he just kind of looked at me and very tentatively went with... 'buddy'?"

Learn one of today's most in-demand skill sets.Every business these days relies on data to make the smartest decisions for them.But how do they gather and organize data to be able to gather those insights?They use big data tools to clean and sort data so it can be viewed and accessed in a much more usable format.

Soho House, a luxury, members-only club offering amenities like private pools, restaurants, and spas with locations worldwide is coming to Charleston in 2024, the company confirmed on Wednesday, June 14.It will take over 161 East Bay Street in downtown Charleston, a space formerly home to craft beer brewery Lagunitas.

Friday, June 16, 2023 by Kali Bramble
Following City Council's move last week to recalibrate compatibility requirements, city staff joined the Housing and Planning Committee on Tuesday for an update on what's next.Currently, Austin's compatibility standards affect development up to 540 feet from lots zoned as Urban Family Residence (SF-5) or lower, a distance far beyond the nationwide average.

Friday, June 9, 2023 by Chad Swiatecki
The 650-plus applications for grants from the city's inaugural Live Music Fund are in the early stages of evaluation and scoring, with the awards of $5,000 and $10,000 slated for initial distribution beginning in September.The Music Commission received a briefing Monday on next steps in the $3.5 million program, which closed its application process last month.

In modern web development, Angular has emerged as a powerful and popular framework for building dynamic and responsive applications.One of the common challenges faced by Angular developers is managing duplicate HTTP requests triggered by multiple subscribers.These duplicate requests can result in inefficient network usage and unnecessary server load.

Figure 1: WebSocket connection establishment between client and server WebSocket is a communication protocol just like HTTP.The essential requirement of WebSocket is to communicate between clients such as a web browser and a server, unlike HTTP, WebSockets start from ws:// or wss://.It provides full-duplex communication channels over a single TCP connection, enabling real-time two-way communication.

Photo by Denys Nevozhai on Unsplash As we build interactive web applications using React and React Router, security becomes a crucial aspect to consider.It is essential to ensure that only authorized users can access sensitive information by protecting certain routes.While there are various mechanisms such as access tokens or role management libraries to implement a comprehensive authentication system, in this tutorial, we will focus on implementing route access validation using React Router.

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Uncover the secrets of Modern Redux with Redux Toolkit and React-Redux hooks API: understand its elegance, address its challenges, and write superior code with real-life examples.Modernizing Redux with Redux Toolkit
Hello, folks!Redux, like many libraries in the dynamic world of JavaScript, has evolved significantly, and understanding how a technology has evolved would let you grasp better the reasons why a certain product followed a specific evolution.

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12, to hear how leaders are integrating and optimizing AI investments for success.This article is part of a VB special issue.Read the full series here: Building the foundation for customer data quality.In today's fast-paced business landscape, where competition is fierce and customers are more demanding than ever, data has become the ultimate game-changer for enterprise leaders.

ODSC Europe is next week, coming up June 14th-15th, and we can't wait to bring the data science community together, both in-person and virtually, to reconnect, learn, and grow.Our in-person passes are almost sold out, but don't worry.If you are unable to join us at the Tobacco Dock this June, we'll be hosting lots of engaging training sessions, workshops, and talks on our virtual platform.

This year's edition of the Ukurant exhibition at 3 Days of Design has taken over a carpentry workshop and features lamps made from egg yolks and a table "decorated with fire".Located at the festival's Refshaleøen Hub, the Ukurant showcase - held by young designers, for young designers - has turned Copenhagen's Barlby Carlsson woodwork factory into a temporary exhibition space.

Learn all about Microsoft Dataverse in this comprehensive overview.Discover its features, benefits, and how it can enhance your data management.Microsoft Dataverse fast facts
Starting price: $5 per user per app per month
Key features:
Integrates with Microsoft Power Platform apps.Offers application programming interface access.

This year has been dominated by new developments and advances in generative AI.And it feels like everyone, from kids to grandparents, are talking about it and its applications.To help you go beyond the hype and understand what's really going on in this field, ODSC and Ai+ are hosting a free virtual event on July 20th, the Generative AI Summit.

Alessandra Korap Munduruku, one of this year's winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize, afloat in her native Sawre Muybu Indigenous Territory in Brazil.She was honored for her activism to protect the rainforest from industrial projects."So our rights are being violated.Everything going on here is wrong," she said.

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With macOS Sonoma, Apple goes all-in on the concept of installable web apps.They're highly integrated in the overall macOS experience and don't give away their web roots by not showing any Safari UI at all.Testing environment ????

Tested on macOS Sonoma 14.0 Beta ( 23A5257q) with Safari version 17.0 ( 19616.1.14.11.11).

As your applications grow in size and complexity, managing logs becomes increasingly challenging.Open source logging tools can help you manage your logs, whether you're implementing a fully customized open source solution or combining open source tools with observability tools like New Relic.In this blog post, you'll learn about some of the top open source logging tools, how they can help expand observability across your stack, and how you can combine them with New Relic to maximize observability and logging across your stack.

SAN JOSE Lyten said Wednesday it has launched a pilot production line for lithium-sulfur batteries in San Jose, an endeavor it hopes will revolutionize the battery sector and usher in new kinds of Silicon Valley innovations.The company believes its batteries which are based on lithium-sulfur technologies can provide a lightweight, low-cost, green and energy-efficient choice for an array of industries, including electric vehicles, electric aircraft and mobile devices.

A bar owner and a local business improvement area are taking aim at the City of Toronto for denying curbside cafe permits to small business owners who participated in the city's CafeTO program in previous years.CafeTO allows restaurants and bars to expand their outdoor dining space through sidewalk cafes, curb lane cafes or patios on private property.

In the fall of 1987, my parents drove me from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, to Evanston for my freshman year at Northwestern University.At that time, people on campus would sometimes refer to Northwestern as the "Harvard of the Midwest."I certainly understood the message.Northwestern was a highly selective, very expensive university that offered students a path to success and leadership.

A new program will help smaller communities start the process of redesigning highways and other transportation investments that tore apart their communities - and shine a light on why it's so hard for them to do it without outside help.With support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a coalition of sustainable transportation nonprofits led by Smart Growth America recently launched the new Community Connectors program, which will grant up to $130,000 and a package of training and support services to each of 15 small and mid-sized communities across the U.S. "to help advance locally driven projects that will reconnect communities separated or harmed by transportation infrastructure and tap available federal and state funds to support them."

(Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)

Before the pandemic, Jose Rubio had been pursuing an environmental engineering degree while also working in construction and performing music.Once COVID-19 struck, he lost his job and couldn't afford to continue at Sierra College near Sacramento.In 2021, California established the Golden State Education and Training Grant Program, providing one-time grants of up to $2,500, aimed at helping people such as Rubio.

Salesforce's series of generative AI, ChatGPT-style tools rolling out this year are designed to provide customers with large language models integrated with the company's products.Salesforce on Monday announced a comprehensive expansion of artificial intelligence products under a new AI Cloud name.The products are designed to give CRM workforces generative AI tools tailored to Salesforce's Slack, Einstein, Data Cloud, Tableau, Flow and MuleSoft offerings.

Two straight weeks of mortgage rate declines helped spur consumer demand, according to the latest figures from the Mortgage Bankers Association.For the week that ended June 9, mortgage applications climbed 7.2% from the prior week.It can partly be explained by the 30-year fixed rate decreasing to 6.77% during roughly the same period.

It's important for today's lenders to be as agile, efficient and scalable as possible to adapt to consumer preferences and fast-changing market conditions.Encompass by ICE Mortgage Technology is the industry's most complete end-to-end solution that provides the flexibility and configurability needed to deliver a next-generation lending experience for every channel, all from a single system of record.

The European Union took an important step on Wednesday toward passing what would be one of the first major laws to regulate artificial intelligence, a potential model for policymakers around the world as they grapple with how to put guardrails on the rapidly developing technology.The European Parliament, a main legislative branch of the E.U., passed a draft law known as the A.I. Act, which would put new restrictions on what are seen as the technology's riskiest uses.

We need to talk about a problem in the arts.There are not enough opportunities for creatives from diverse backgrounds.It's a problem Adobe and the V&A in London (and MoMA in New York) are aiming to solve with a 'multi-year (and multi-million dollar)' residency programme to give underrepresented, emerging creatives a platform to get noticed and support the next generation of artists.

What looks like progress the growing number of Latino students is attributable mostly to demographic growth, he said.The 2020 campaign to restore race-conscious affirmative action in California was close to gospel within the Democratic Party.It drew support from the governor, senators, state legislative leaders and a who's who of business, nonprofit and labor elites, Black, Latino, white and Asian.

On Monday, Apple unveiled a new product that's either revolutionary, or very expensive hype, depending on whether you read the company description of the Vision Pro or media reviews of its unveiling.Launched during the company's annual World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in Cupertino, Calif., the Apple Vision Pro is a wearable headset.

Last month, hundreds of well-known people in the world of artificial intelligence signed an open letter warning that A.I. could one day destroy humanity.Mitigating the risk of extinction from A.I. should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war, the one-sentence statement said.

goTom has today announced its collaboration with SpringServe to develop a standardised interface for the SpringServe ad server.Unlike many other ad servers that focus on display advertising, SpringServe specialises in delivering video ads.The platform utilises proprietary machine learning algorithms to optimise the ad delivery.

Although the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to put a halt to applications for new cannabis retail permits, no one at Thursday evening's community meeting opposed the opening of a new dispensary at 724 Valencia St between 18th and 19th Streets.If approved by the Planning Commission, Powerzzzup will welcome its customers this year, becoming the second cannabis dispensary on Valencia Street.

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Hey there!So, you want to know how to make the best code design for your Angular application?In this article, we take a closer look at the Interface Segregation Principle (ISP).Let's dive into it and see how it can make our code better.So, ISP is all about not forcing clients to depend on stuff they don't need.

"Without deciding whether Rogers has merit in other contexts, we hold that it does not when an alleged infringer uses a trademark in the way the Lanham Act most cares about: as a designation of source for the infringer's own goods."- U.S. Supreme Court
The U.S. Supreme Court held today in Jack Daniel's Properties v. VIP Products that the Rogers test, used to "protect First Amendment interests in the trademark context ," is not relevant "when an alleged infringer uses a trademark as a designation of source for the infringer's own goods."

A federal grant program aimed at speeding America's transition to zero-emissions transit is being undermined by a requirement that one-quarter of the spending be allocated to low-polluting vehicles - leading to shortages in grants to agencies seeking to bolster their no-pollution fleet.After passage of the 2021 infrastructure bill, the Federal Transit Administration awarded grants to support clean or cleaner bus fleets and facilities in rural, suburban, and hyper-dense areas across the country.