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I am coming from a PowerShell background, and at the moment trying to get my head around Swift Concurrency. My first project as it relates to concurrency is a utility to en mass transcribe audio files, and I am banging my head on some basics. What I am trying to do here is simply get […]
IKEA will pay $6.5 million to a German government fund to compensate victims of forced labor in East Germany during the Cold War. Political and criminal prisoners were forced to produce IKEA furniture in the 1970s and 1980s under the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) communist regime. The industry practice was confirmed by an independent investigation […]
TNT forward Calvin Oftana in Game 3 of the PBA Finals.–MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.net MANILA, Philippines—TNT forward Calvin Oftana lamented the Tropang Giga’s poor shot selection down the stretch in a Game 3 loss to the Barangay Ginebra Gin Kings in the PBA Governors’ Cup Finals on Friday. It was a close encounter with TNT trailing by […]
Article content Fourteen months after a devastating flash flood forced the Ottawa Birth and Wellness Centre to close its doors, it has reopened. The Walkley Road facility, used by midwives and their clients from across the city, was almost instantly back in use, executive director Jolanta Scott-Parker said. The centre reopened at 8 a.m. on […]
A Hong Kong court has sentenced two human traffickers to up to four years and eight months in jail for tricking five Hongkongers into forced labour and confinement in Southeast Asia in one of the worst cases involving residents’ safety overseas in recent years. Ma Che-hou, 32, and Joshua Cheung Man-waai, 25, were sentenced on […]
Mike Tyson has always had an incredibly fiery side to him, whether it be employing dirty tactics against opponents, or nearly getting into physical altercations with members of the media Source link
A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size The Australian squad for the short three-match T20 series against Pakistan has been chosen and as it turns out, through necessity, the selectors have finally stumbled upon the selection template they should be using for the international level. With […]
Furious protesters in a popular Spanish city are demanding access to affordable housing and an end to the touristification of their city. A rally attended by tens of thousands of people was held a week ago in Valencia under the slogan “Valencia is drowning” (València s’ofega). Organisers want the city to be declared a stressed […]
The US Department of Justice may be on the verge of seeking a break-up of Google in a bid to make it less dominant. If the government goes ahead and is successful in the courts, it could mean the company being split into separate entities – a search engine, an advertising company, a video website, […]
A presenter on BBC Radio 4’s flagship Today programme has apologised for mispronouncing the surname of shadow chancellor Jeremy Hunt as a rude word. Nick Robinson made the error while interviewing employment minister Alison McGovern on the programme on Friday morning. Listeners heard him say: “When the Tories announced £12 billion in welfare cuts, and […]