Indeed, corporations just may have reached another inflection point. “In the past,” says Andrew Ng, chief scientist at Baidu Research, “a lot of S&P 500 CEOs wished they had started thinking sooner than they did about their Internet strategy. I think five years from now there will be a...
They tend to take place at the start and end of the Alaska season as ships move to and from the Caribbean, as part of World or Grand Voyages, for example like the one I did on Queen Victoria, or as dedicated Panama Cruises like the Miami to Los Angeles I did on Regent Seven Seas ...
A wingsuit BASE jumper just live-streamed his own death—marking the latest fatality in the sport’s deadliest year. We investigate why both highly experienced pilots and beginners are dying in this extreme activity.
France didn't like the EU executive's proposal.“Prioritising natural gas over nuclear energy to decarbonise industry is complete nonsense. These rules contradict European ambitions,” said French MEP Christophe Grudler.Read more.
Elements of the latter's classic chanson "Non, je ne regrette rien" is repeatedly interweaved through the experimental score; Zimmer worked with a French scientist to extract from the original's master. While the brassier moments self-described as "like huge foghorns over a city" have since ...
(2000) categorized into four types those studies that had investigated the topic: (i) studies reporting that better educated individuals declined at a slower rate; (ii) studies that did not find an effect of education on cognitive change; (iii) studies where the effect was only found in ...
Weeks later, with someone who knew her as well as I did, and with no idea of what I could possibly begin to say, a provisional apophatic eulogy was drafted, going something like this: Anna Reinelt was someone who wanted to leave the world a better place than she found it, and she ...
Halep’s final wave to Romanian tennis fans as she left the court was laced with emotion and probably some regret, as the final chapters of her career have been less than satisfactory. Her 2018 French Open win and her victory at Wimbledon a year later are the stand-out moments this former...
‘a word will not suffice where two or even three can take its place; long sentences are preferable to short ones; Latin, or perhaps medieval French, are preferable to English’) and to write legal documents, particularly those used by consumers, in a manner that can be understood, not ...
The metric system itself was created during the French Revolution, then rejected under Napoleon and brought back with the July Revolution of 1830. Elsewhere in Europe, the meter and kilogram took root as a result of Napoleonic conquests. Metric measures “marched in the wake of French ...