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US shopping centres re-open: 'This is the best day ever'

In states like Texas, malls can operate at a 25% capacity and for some, it's a reason to get out of the house.




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Atletico Ottawa - how the Canadian club conceived in Spain is preparing to make its debut

Fan clubs, players from all over the world and a former Spain international in charge, Atletico Madrid's Canadian venture is currently on pause.




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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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Souza out of UFC 249 after testing positive for coronavirus

UFC middleweight Jacaré Souza tests positive for Covid-19 and will no longer compete at the controversial UFC 49 show.




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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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How Florian Schneider and Kraftwerk influenced five decades of music

The band's influence can be heard in everything from art-rock and hip-hop to trance and house.




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Coronavirus: Seed sales soar as more of us become budding gardeners

The lockdown has led to huge growth in the number of people buying garden seeds.




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India coronavirus: Why celebrating Covid-19 'success models' is dangerous

Experts tell the BBC that euphoria over success models runs the risk of people becoming complacent.




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Coronavirus lockdown sends solo sailor on Pacific odyssey

One man's dream sailing trip nearly ended in disaster as island nations began closing their borders.




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Dateci Voce: Italian women demand voice in Covid-19 fight

Women post selfies demanding more representation in official bodies dealing with Covid-19.




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Coronavirus: How is Suffolk's Little America coping in lockdown?

How are the communities that rely so heavily on the US airbases coping under lockdown?




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Coronavirus: Belarus WW2 parade defies pandemic and upstages Putin

Belarus goes ahead with a Victory Day parade but in Russia coronavirus forced its cancellation.




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Coronavirus: How they tried to curb Spanish flu pandemic in 1918

Face masks, fresh air and porridge - how people tried to curb a deadly flu pandemic in 1918.




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Coronavirus: Tesla ordered to keep main US plant closed

It reportedly planned to re-open on Friday, but authorities say this could lead to more virus cases.




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US Vice-President Mike Pence's aide tests positive for coronavirus

The diagnosis comes one day after Trump's personal valet tested positive for the virus.




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Slovenia cyclists hold anti-government protest

Thousands accused PM Janez Jansa of using the coronavirus crisis as a pretext to restrict freedoms.




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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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Magician Roy Horn dies after catching coronavirus

He and his stage partner Siegfried Fischbacher were one of the longest-running acts in Las Vegas.




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Coronavirus: Russia marks WW2 Victory Day with subdued celebrations

Footage of last year's Red Square military parade play on TV as the pandemic mutes celebrations.




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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: How does contact tracing work and is my data safe?

Millions in the UK will soon be asked to download an app that helps to limit coronavirus spreading.




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Coronavirus: Will offices be safe for a return to work?

Here's a look at some of the technology that might help monitor the health of employees.




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Coronavirus: 'Phone apps helped me spend time with my dying mum'

Andrew's mother was dying in hospital under lockdown, so he used technology to spend time with her.




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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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Couples get married in virtual wedding ceremonies

Video calling technology is helping people share their special day with others during lockdown.




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Facebook update crashes TikTok and other rivals

The social network apologised after a software update affects several popular apps on iPhones.




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Coronavirus contact-tracing: World split between two types of app

The UK is testing its own design but a Google-Apple initiative is winning over many other nations.




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Coronavirus: Scam sites selling masks and fake cures taken down

More than 160,000 suspicious emails have been reported to a new scam-busting service in two weeks.




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Coronavirus: Google ends plans for smart city in Toronto

Sister firm Sidewalk Labs cites Covid-19 as the reason for stepping back from its ambitious plan.




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Uber says 'no sacred cows' amid coronavirus crisis

The firm has already announced job cuts affecting 14% of its staff, but more measures may be needed.




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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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RTX Voice: Noise-destroying tech put to the test

Two noise-cancelling AI systems - Nvidia RTX Voice and Krisp - are put to the test.




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Things that more developers should know about databases

#301 — April 24, 2020

Read on the Web

Database Weekly

'Things I Wished More Developers Knew About Databases' — A Google engineer (whose name may be familiar to those Go developers amongst you) shares 17 insights about databases she’s picked up over the years. I strongly recommend this piece and I identify with lots of the points myself..

Jaana B. Dogan

Lambda Store: A New 'Serverless Redis' Service — This seems a neat idea. Claiming to not be just another Redis cloud service, Lambda Store applies a serverless-style pricing model which opens up a variety of neat use cases for the popular data structure server (serverless caching, for starters). The underlying system appears to be a custom clone of Redis rather than the real deal, however.

Sven Anderson

???? AWS, GCP, & Azure Punch Back at the 2020 Cloud Report — AWS, GCP, & Azure each responded to the Cockroach Labs 2020 Cloud Report with instructions on how to tune their respective clouds for optimal performance.

Cockroach Labs sponsor

How io_uring and eBPF Will Revolutionize Programming in Linux — Even more exciting times are coming for development on Linux thanks to these technologies. A good overview from an engineer at ScyllaDB.

Glauber Costa

kvrocks: An Open Source, RocksDB-based, Redis-compatible Database — You know Redis’s API is good when so many projects continue to implement it for themselves. kvrocks brings the Redis API (with pretty good support) together with the RocksDB persistent key-value store. Written in C++.

Bit Leak

Mireo SpaceTime: An Absurdly Fast Spatiotemporal Database? — The SpaceTime database provides unprecedented analytical tools speed, sometimes outperforming other state-of-the-art solutions by three orders of magnitude.

Miljen Mikić

Cloud GPUs Aimed at Data Scientists — Core Scientific, an AI and cloud infrastructure vendor, is teaming with GPU-accelerated analytics specialist SQream Technologies to deliver a “GPU Cloud for Data Scientists.”

Datanami

An Easy Postgres 12 and pgAdmin 4 Setup with Docker — Docker provides an easy and loosely coupled way to get things set up in a development environment.

Jonathan S. Katz

Why We Index Everything — Tired of constantly managing indexes to speed up queries? Learn about how Rockset automatically indexes every field in a row-based store, column-based store, and search index.

Rockset sponsor

Redis Labs Moving RedisJSON to a New Codebase Written in RustRedisJSON provides a JSON data type to Redis and it’s been ported from C to Rust for better safety and developer experience.

Gavrie Philipson (Redis Labs)

Replicate Multiple Postgres Servers to a Single MongoDB Server using Logical Decoding Output Plugin

David Zhang

xsv: A Fast CSV Command Line Toolkit Written in Rust — Another ‘Swiss Army knife’ for your slightly structured data.

Andrew Gallant

???? Jobs

DevOps Engineer at X-Team (Remote) — Join the most energizing community for developers. Work from anywhere with the world's leading brands.

X-Team

Data Engineer (Remote - USA Only) — Help us architect and design “big data” systems which require queries returning within sub-second response times.

Social Chorus




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Belsen 1945: Remembering the medical students who saved lives

Two weeks after liberation, 95 London medical students arrived at Belsen to help care for survivors.




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Coronavirus: How do you social distance in schools?

If pupils are allowed to return to school after the lockdown, how would they keep 2m apart?




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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: Lockdown life 'a challenge' for vulnerable children

Charities warn some children who are missing out on additional support at school are falling into crisis.




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Coronavirus: ‘The nursery I run may not survive’

Thousands of nurseries and childminders may shut permanently due to the pandemic, research suggests.




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Coronavirus: Online students face full tuition fees

If universities are teaching online next term students will still have to pay full tuition fees.




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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: Concerns for wellbeing of babies born in lockdown

New mothers are missing out on support for their babies amidst lockdown restrictions.




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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.




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Coronavirus: Schools in Wales not reopening on 1 June

The situation for schools in Wales will not change on 1 June, the education minister says.