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Airline middle seats won't stay empty forever in the name of social distancing. Here's why

Permanently blocking middle seats and limiting the number of passengers per flight is a costly move for airlines and would increase ticket prices.





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Coronavirus: China offers to help North Korea fight pandemic

President Xi Jinping expresses concern about the threat to its neighbour, and offers to help.





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Google employees are told to expect to work from home for the rest of the year, but a select few will be allowed to return to offices as soon as June

Google CEO Sundar Pichai has told employees to expect to work from home for the remainder of 2020, but will open offices for certain exceptions.





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Russian volunteers search for fallen World War II soldiers

Abayev and members of his search team rummage the steppe for remains of the Red Army soldiers who fell in the autumn of 1942 in fierce fighting with Nazi troops pushing toward the Caspian Sea south of Stalingrad. Stiff resistance by the Red Army stopped the Wehrmacht onslaught in the steppes of Kalmykia, and months later the enemy's forces were encircled in Stalingrad and surrendered, a major defeat for the Nazis that marked a turning point in World War II.





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Ex-husband of Biden accuser Tara Reade said she told him of being sexual harassed: report

Biden has repeatedly denied Reade's allegation.





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UK-US trade talks will not be an easy ride

Both sides are desperate for a speedy agreement, but there are clear sticking points.




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PMQs: Starmer and Johnson on UK coronavirus death rates

The Labour leader says the UK's coronavirus death figures are “not success or apparent success“.




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Coronavirus: 'Virus not beaten' but UK can think about next phase, says Raab

The Foreign Secretary says the prime minister will outline what steps the UK "can responsibly take over the following weeks."




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Coronavirus: Unions warn over move to increase rail services

Rail union leaders have written to Prime Minister Boris Johnson with "severe concerns".




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Coronavirus: Johnson reveals 'contingency plans' made during treatment

Boris Johnson says doctors had planned what to do if his coronavirus treatment went "badly wrong".




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Coronavirus: Staggered work times considered when lockdown eases

Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says it could help maintain social distancing on public transport.




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Coronavirus: Possible post-lockdown workplace rules revealed

Reduced hot-desking, staggered shifts and continued home-working form part of a draft government plan.




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Coronavirus: Nearly two million claim universal credit

About 8,000 job centre staff have been redeployed to process claims for financial help, minister tells MPs.




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Trade minister Conor Burns resigns over 'veiled threats' in letter

Conor Burns used his position as an MP to intimidate a member of the public, standards watchdog finds.




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Coronavirus: Nicola Sturgeon sets out options for easing lockdown

The moves could include a gradual reopening of schools and allowing people to spend more time outside.




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Coronavirus: Don't ban over-70s from lockdown easing, says ex-MP

Ann Clwyd argues against "blanket ban" on over-70s involvement in easing of virus restrictions.




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Coronavirus: Mass testing earlier 'would have been beneficial'

The UK's chief scientist tells MPs mass testing is "part of the system that you need to get right".




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Coronavirus: UK death toll passes Italy to be highest in Europe

The figure of 29,427 deaths is "a massive tragedy", the foreign secretary says, but steers clear of comparisons.




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Anti-abortion campaigner loses Stella Creasy poster ban appeal

A judge dismisses Christian Hacking's bid to overturn a ban on posters put up around Waltham Forest.




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Coronavirus: 'Severe consequences' if lockdown lifted too early

The NI Executive says agreeing how to relax measures is the most crucial decision it will ever make.




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Coronavirus: UK becomes first country in Europe to pass 30,000 deaths

The UK records a further 649 deaths, taking the total number of coronavirus deaths to 30,076.




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Coronavirus: MP Nadia Whittome 'sacked' as carer after 'speaking out' about PPE

Nadia Whittome claims she was "sacked" but the care employer says she was no longer needed.




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VE Day: How is it being celebrated this year?

Coronavirus means people are marking the 75th anniversary of VE Day from their own homes.




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Coronavirus: 'Up to 2,000' UK seafarers stranded

Mental health problems are growing and ship workers see "no end" to their ordeal, a union warns.




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Coronavirus: I watched the president reveal I had Covid-19 on TV

Against her will, Sita Tyasutami became "case one", the face of Indonesia's coronavirus outbreak.




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Coronavirus: Six money-saving ideas for lockdown and beyond

Millions of people are facing pay cuts or less work, so how can you make your money go further?




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Tracking the global outbreak

Key maps and charts explaining how the respiratory virus has spread around the world and how it is being dealt with.




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'Definitely not the real thing': why eracers can't go from the bedroom to the cockpit

With more and more F1 drivers making the move to esports during the lockdown and doing well, could an expert sim racer easily make the leap the other way?




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'B' teams or partner clubs back on the agenda? Clubs may have to 'share resources' to survive

The controversial concept of B teams may be back on the agenda as football tries to navigate a way through Covid-19, Brighton technical director Dan Ashworth says.




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'I feel fresher and healthier' - Hamilton enjoying parts of F1 break

Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton says he feels certain benefits from his enforced time away from Formula 1.




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Extra substitutes among temporary law changes when leagues resume

Teams will be allowed to use five substitutes when the season resumes after a Fifa proposal to help with fixture congestion was approved.




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Watford third team to oppose Premier League neutral venue proposals

Watford become the third team to publicly oppose the use of neutral venues when Premier League football returns.




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Can robotaxis ease public transport fears in China?

More self-driving cabs are being launched in China at a time when people are worried about public transport.




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Trump laments ‘heart-breaking' killing

The 25-year-old was jogging in Georgia when he was shot dead, in a video the president described as disturbing.




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Coronavirus: Andy Serkis reads entire Hobbit live online for charity

More than 650,000 watch the Gollum actor narrate Tolkien's fantasy classic in one 11-hour sitting.




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Coronavirus: China offers to help North Korea fight pandemic

President Xi Jinping expresses concern about the threat to its neighbour, and offers to help.




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Coronavirus: Far-right spreads Covid-19 'infodemic' on Facebook

An investigation details how extremists are trying to exploit the pandemic via the social network.




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Love Bug's creator tracked down to repair shop in Manila

Two decades after the world's first major computer virus, an author finds the perpetrator in Manila.




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Coronavirus: Can live-streaming save China's economy?

In China, the live-streaming industry has become an important platform for economic recovery.




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Coronavirus: Ghana's dancing pallbearers become Covid-19 meme

Social media users have adopted the troupe as a dark-humoured symbol of death in the time of Covid-19.




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Covid-19: Investigating the spread of fake coronavirus news

In a joint investigation BBC Click investigates the groups behind fake news about the pandemic.




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Facebook and Google extend working from home to end of year

The tech giants plan to re-open offices soon but will allow staff to work remotely throughout 2020.




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Xbox: Microsoft reveals first games for Series X console

The Xbox team shows off new footage of the highly anticipated Assassin's Creed: Valhalla.




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Coronavirus: NHS reveals source code behind contact-tracing app

More than 40,000 people have downloaded the contact tracing app so far, ahead of a wider release.




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Coronavirus: 'Plandemic' virus conspiracy video spreads across social media

A slickly-produced "documentary" has exploded across social media, peddling medical misinformation.




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Redis 6.0 released

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Redis 6.0 Released — The next major release of the popular data structure server is here. Redis is at the heart of so many data systems nowadays that any major release is big news but 6.0 packs in a lot of new bits and pieces that make it more robust and capable of modern workloads, including:

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You Can Now Do Serverless Streaming ETL with AWS Glue — If you want to analyze data on the fly as it arrives, you can now use AWS Glue (AWS’s ETL service) with streaming platforms like Kinesis Data Streams or Kafka which opens up a lot of opportunities as demonstrated here.

Danilo Poccia (AWS)

Monitor Database Performance End-To-End with OOTB Dashboards — Datadog’s customizable, built-in dashboards allow you to collect and visualize custom metrics, like saturation and resource utilization, in real-time. Unify your metrics, traces and logs in one platform. Try it free with a 14-day trial.

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Can Apache Kafka Replace a Database? - The 2020 Update — Kafka is a stream-processing system but the idea of using it to store data isn’t uncommon. This post analyzes Kafka’s core concepts from the database perspective.

Kai Waehner

PostgreSQL Gets a Parallel Processing Boost — Swarm64 started life as a FPGA-driven way to accelerate Postgres’s performance for analytics and data warehouse tasks, but can now work without FPGAs too.

Datanami

Using SQL in RStudio

Irene Steves

A Jepsen Security Report on Dgraph 1.1.1Jepsen is well known for their work in putting databases and related systems through their security paces. Here, the Go-powered distributed graph database Dgraph gets analyzed.

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MongoDB Makes Its Compass GUI FreeCompass provides a powerful interface to work with MongoDB databases. It’s source was made publicly available last year as well.

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eBook: The Most Important Events to Monitor in Your Postgres Logs — In this eBook, you will learn about the Top 6 Postgres log events for monitoring query performance and preventing downtime.

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Pantry: Free Cloud-Based Storage for JSON Data — Provides “perishable”, though secure, data storage for small projects via a RESTful API. Data is erased after a period of inactivity. There are quite a few projects like this and while they don’t suit long term production use, they can come in handy for hackathons, quick personal projects, teaching, etc.

Rohan Likhite

Liftbridge 1.0: Lightweight, Fault-Tolerant Message Streams — A server that implements a durable, replicated message log for the NATS messaging system.

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Lockdown homeschooling: The parents who have forgotten what they learned at school

Parents have been turning to Google to help them teach the things they’ve forgotten.




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Coronavirus: Teachers warn of early school return 'spike'

Teaching unions across UK and Ireland say test and trace measures must be fully operational before reopening.




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Coronavirus schools return: Can you really keep children 2m apart?

What's it like in a school that has re-opened? Denmark and Germany show how it might look.




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Coronavirus: 'Humiliation' as school meal vouchers fail at till

"We had to leave all our shopping," a mother tells BBC News.