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BBC News - National Portrait Gallery drops £1m donor
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Tony Lewis leaving Sangoma
For those who have not heard yet my last day with Sangoma Technologies will be April 30th. It’s been a long journey for me. In Jan 2015 Luke Duquaine, Bryan Walters, Philippe Lindheimer and I sold our company Schmooze and the FreePBX project to Sangoma after being involved in FreePBX since 2007.
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An astronaut with PTSD loses her cool in first trailer for Lucy in the Sky
Director Noah Hawley's film is loosely based on 2007 case of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak.
Lucy in the Sky tells the story of married astronaut Lucy Cola (Portman), who has an affair with fellow astronaut Mark Goodwin (Jon Hamm). When he dumps her for another woman in the program, she begins to lose her grip on reality. Originally titled Pale Blue Dot, the movie is the feature-film debut for director Noah Hawley, whose TV credits include Fargo and Legion. Reese Witherspoon was initially considered for the lead role of Lucy but dropped out to shoot the second season of Big Little Lies. Portman came aboard instead, making this at least her second song-titled film alongside Jane Got a Gun.
This sounds like a terrible movie.
It's based on a "real-life" event.... kind of. The trailer didn't really make me want to go see it... just sounds like a boring fake-thriller.
I was kind of hoping they'd go with a horror/sci-fi angle.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
It's based on a "real-life" event.... kind of. The trailer didn't really make me want to go see it... just sounds like a boring fake-thriller.
Yeah, really BORING and stupid real life event.
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Boeing is getting a little less popular with the media...
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
Boeing is getting a little less popular with the media...
I don't think that the recent plane fiasco really has anything to do with it.
Most space news sites have been making these kind of comparisons for a while. But with SpaceX now having successfully launched, there is more to talk about again.
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Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of children
A bus carrying 51 schoolchildren has allegedly been hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.
A teacher who had been on board the bus said the suspect was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy. Some reports said the man had shouted "stop the deaths in the Mediterranean".
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of children
A bus carrying 51 schoolchildren has allegedly been hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.
A teacher who had been on board the bus said the suspect was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy. Some reports said the man had shouted "stop the deaths in the Mediterranean".
OMG, that's so awful. Thank goodness they were all saved.
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@scottalanmiller spoilers
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
Italian driver hijacks and torches school bus full of children
A bus carrying 51 schoolchildren has allegedly been hijacked by its driver and set alight near Milan in Italy.
A teacher who had been on board the bus said the suspect was known to be angry about Italy's migrant policy. Some reports said the man had shouted "stop the deaths in the Mediterranean".
OMG, that's so awful. Thank goodness they were all saved.
Fast moving bus... people inside are saved... This sounds like a movie I've seen before.
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4chan, 8chan blocked by Australian and NZ ISPs for hosting shooting video
Widespread website blocking being used to limit spread of terror attack video.
Internet service providers in Australia have temporarily blocked access to dozens of websites, including 4chan and 8chan, that hosted video of last week's New Zealand mass shooting. New Zealand ISPs have also been blocking websites that host the video.
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About a third of medical vaccine exemptions in San Diego came from one doctor
She wrote 141 exemptions since 2015. The second highest number was 26.
Medical vaccination exemptions are intended for the relatively few people who have medical conditions that prevent them from receiving vaccines safely. That includes people who are on long-term immunosuppressive therapy or those who are immunocompromised, such as those with HIV or those who have had severe, life-threatening allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) to previous immunizations.
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@mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:
About a third of medical vaccine exemptions in San Diego came from one doctor
She wrote 141 exemptions since 2015. The second highest number was 26.
Medical vaccination exemptions are intended for the relatively few people who have medical conditions that prevent them from receiving vaccines safely. That includes people who are on long-term immunosuppressive therapy or those who are immunocompromised, such as those with HIV or those who have had severe, life-threatening allergic reactions (e.g. anaphylaxis) to previous immunizations.
But that number pales when compared to the religious exemptions.
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BBC News - Oklahoma sheriff and staff quit over unsafe jail
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BBC News - Cyclone Idai: Rescuers race against time to reach survivors
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Iraq ferry sinking: Many feared dead in Tigris river near Mosul
At least 40 people are feared to have died after a ferry sank in the Tigris river near the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Most of the people on board the vessel were women and children and could not swim, the head of Mosul's civil defence agency reportedly said.
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Cyclone Idai: How the storm tore into southern Africa
Aid agencies are scrambling to reach survivors of Cyclone Idai, which swept through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe last week, destroying towns and villages in its path.
Hundreds of people have been killed and hundreds of thousands more have been affected by what the UN says could be "one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit the southern hemisphere".
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Google tries to reassure gamers about Stadia speed and latency concerns
Harrison cites data center "innovations... not visible to the outside world."
While the company set a threshold of 25mbps for its beta testing late last year, Harrison told Ars that "in actual fact, we only use an average of 20mbps; it obviously bounces up and down depending on the scene." Since that beta, Harrison said infrastructure and codec improvements "now allow us to get up to 4K resolution [at 60 frames per second] within about 30mbps. So we saw a dramatic increase in quality between then and now without a significant increase in bandwidth."
