Big data and human height: Scientists develop algorithm to boost biobank data retrieval and analysis

Extracting and analyzing relevant medical information from large-scale databases such as biobanks poses considerable challenges. To exploit such "big data," attempts have focused on large sampling ...
Business Insider

Russia's only way to send astronauts to space has suffered some serious blast damage

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InfoQ

Beyond the Warehouse: Why BigQuery Alone Won’t Solve Your Data Problems

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TechCrunch

SpaceX seeks federal approval to launch 1 million solar-powered satellite data centers

SpaceX has filed a request with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a constellation of up to 1 million solar-powered satellites that it said will serve as data centers for artificial ...
Talking Points Memo

Senate Vote on Government Funding Back on Track After Graham Gets Promise of Floor Votes

WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Ca... WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 29: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol ...
NBC News

The U.S. is sending its most athletes ever to the Winter Olympics. Here's where they're from.

The United States will send its largest ever contingent of winter athletes to Italy for the Milan Cortina Olympics as a whopping 232 people will represent the Stars and Stripes when the Games begin in ...
Wired

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past two years, according to new research released Wednesday. More than a third of this new demand, the research ...
InfoQ

Google BigQuery Adds SQL-Native Managed Inference for Hugging Face Models

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Breaking Into The Black Box: Unlocking Meta’s Product-Level Ad Data

Ecommerce and Meta often go hand in hand. You can give Meta a 20,000-item catalog and a budget, and with its AI-powered Advantage+ campaigns, it’ll try to pair the right person with the right product, ...
Moviefone

Entertaining ‘Send Help’ Turns Rachel McAdams Into A Survivalist

Sam Raimi’s bloody, darkly comic thriller ‘Send Help’ pits Rachel McAdams against her boss, Dylan O’Brien, as they try to survive on a deserted island. Billed as Raimi’s first horror film since 2009’s ...
The New York Times

Jakub Menšík withdraws from Australian Open, sending Novak Djokovic into quarterfinals

MELBOURNE, Australia — Jakub Menšík has withdrawn from the Australian Open, sending Novak Djokovic into the quarterfinals. The highly-rated Czech, who beat Djokovic in the Miami Open final last March, ...