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Winners, losers after Sunday night’s NASCAR Cup race at Richmond
Here’s a look at the winners and losers from Richmond Raceway.WINNERS NASCAR fans — NASCAR has continually pushed to find ways to start races sooner after it rains. Sunday, NASCAR put cars on track with wet weather tires. The start of the race was delayed only a few minutes — a much shorter delay than …
Baltimore begins race to clean up Key Bridge collapse, reopen port
Huge crane ships, thousands of relief workers and millions of dollars headed toward Baltimore on Thursday, as efforts turned from recovery after the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge to a massive cleanup that some experts described as unprecedented and highly dangerous.The U.S. Navy deployed several floating cranes, including one that could lift 1,000 …
American automakers are losing the race to make more fuel-efficient vehicles
The US saw record gains in fuel efficiency last year, but it still falls short of what’s needed to meet fast-approaching deadlines. Thanks to their love of large vehicles, American automakers have fallen behind their competitors when it comes to getting more miles per gallon of gas. Real-world fuel economy in model year 2022 rose …
Jane Street Tech Blog – Oxidizing OCaml: Data Race Freedom
OCaml with Jane Street extensions is available from our public opam repo. Only a slice of the features described in this series are currently implemented. In part one, we discussed how OCaml’s locality mode enables safe stack allocation. In part two, we explored how the uniqueness and linearity modes represent ownership. In this (final) post, …
The Race To Save Sam Bankman-Fried’s Other Crypto Exchange
Decentralized exchanges differ from their centralized counterparts (like FTX, Binance, Coinbase, and others) in a few important ways. Most notably, instead of relying on an intermediary to match buyers with sellers, DEXs let users transact on a peer-to-peer basis—and keep custody of their own funds. This arrangement is one example of what’s known as decentralized …
University of Minnesota to examine media portrayals of race and health equity
The University of Minnesota and two other universities will be researching how the media portrays health equity and how frequently it covers the topic. Cornell University, Wesleyan University, and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health have been awarded a grant to track media content and examine its impact on attitudes, values and behavior. …
Shadows Of The Coming Race (1879)
I recently came across the short essay below by George Eliot, the male pen name of Victorian author Mary Ann Evans. It’s quite remarkable in its prescience of current AI debates, particularly how long the “servant-master” relationship can persist between humans and their machines. What’s striking for me is that I’d read several of her …
Australia Warned of Falling Behind in Technology Race
A five-year productivity inquiry into Australia’s digital technologies and data has found that the country could fall behind in the race against technological change. In its latest interim report, the Productivity Commission said that inadequate internet, lack of skills, low awareness and uncertainty about benefits, security concerns, cost and maintaining legacy systems were preventing Australian businesses from …
What impact does race have on mental health? New U. hire to explore, address disparities
The Hunstman Mental Health Institute and the University of Utah education department have announced a new hire to explore racial disparities in mental health services as a part of a larger collaboration. (Steve Griffin, Deseret News) Estimated read time: 2-3 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — The Hunstman Mental Health Institute and University of Utah education …
Polls show Dr. Oz holding narrow lead in Pa. Senate race | Election Central
NEWTOWN, Pa. – Name recognition, tons of cash, and an endorsement from former President Donald Trump have been campaign keys for Dr. Mehmet Oz, but he faces the highest unfavorability rating among GOP voters. Coming into election day polls have him leading, but only slightly. Hedge fund manager David McCormick, who’s spent nearly as much, …
