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Keys are yesterday’s tech, your smart home needs a smart door lock.

Steer clear of this bare-bones smart lock.

The former South Bend mayor and the senator from Minnesota are competing for the same voters, and the fight is getting nasty.

HAVING spent the best part of 30 years helping to develop football talent, Steve McClaren has turned his attention to the golf course.

1. Sanders surges into national lead in new Post-ABC poll  Washington Post
2. You’ve Seen the Ads, Now See the Candidate  The New York Times
3. Column: Bloomberg-Sanders battle is a dream come true for GOP  Los Angeles Times
4. Arnon Mishkin: At Democratic debate in Las Vegas, expect a battle between Bloomberg and other candidates  Fox News
5. Bernie Sanders isn't the frontrunner in the Democratic race. The moderates are.  NBCNews.com
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Python’s asynchronous programming functionality, or async for short, allows you to write programs that get more work done by not waiting for independent tasks to finish. The asyncio library included with Python gives you the tools to use async for processing disk or network I/O without making everything else wait.

The ggplot2 package is powerful and almost endlessly customizable, but sometimes small tweaks can be a challenge. The ggtext package aims to simplify styling text on your visualizations. In this tutorial, I’ll walk through one text-styling task I saw demo’d at RStudio Conference last month: adding color.

Microsoft's latest roadmap for the Edge browser spells out when developers will tackle some of its many not-yet-coded features, but most remain in the planning or even in-discussion phases, leaving users uncertain when functionality would be implemented.

Pilot fish is just starting in IT at this big pharmaceutical company, and he gets a call from an executive admin with a problem.

PARIS – Paris St Germain were plunged into fresh turmoil following their 2-1 Champions League defeat at Borussia Dortmund on Tuesday with Neymar criticizing the club for not giving him time to get his sharpness back after injury ahead of the last 16 tie.

Those who think of Stillwater as a classic riverfront town likely haven’t driven slightly upriver on MN-95. A sign entering Marine on St. Croix reads “Population 689,” and though its residents number far fewer than I’d expected, nothing would prepare me for downtown Marine. It’s listed on the ...

Often, crafting effective policy means absorbing information you never had any desire to know. Like exactly how much poop you’re probably carrying around on your butt at all times. That was the disheartening and potentially stomach-turning news brought to us this week Trisha Robinson, a supervisor ...

Arvind Kejriwal meets Amit Shah, calls meeting fruitful

Sam Parkin writes about a video game called Dreams, which allows players to make their own games, and its creator, Mark Healey, one of the founders of Media Molecule.

Nathan Heller interviews the political scientist and Yale professor Hélène Landemore on her conception of open democracy, which she established in her book “Democratic Reason: Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many.”

The NASCAR Xfinity Series kicked off their 2020 season opener at Daytona International Speedway on a bright sunny Saturday afternoon in central Florida. It was the first race of the season and it sure didn’t disappoint. Xfinity Series regular, Noah Gragson was finally able to pick up the first win of his Xfinity Series career, […]

THE END OF THE WORLD could soon be a reality if the Bible is anything to go by, as a swarm of locusts approach Egypt.

The Constitution does not place a wall between the president and the Justice Department.

Former vice president Joe Biden, who led Sanders in a Post-ABC national poll in January, has seen a sharp drop in his support after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses and fifth in the New Hampshire primary.

Arab Gulf leaders have been splashing out on sport.

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• Pan Am was once the largest international airline in the United States.
• In 1970 alone, it carried 11 million passengers to 86 countries worldwide.

• Pam Am still holds cult status for its iconic aviation style. 

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