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‘My husband is not a threat’: ICE detains man married to U.S. citizen

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Even as the Trump administration continues to insist that its immigration policies are just targeting the worst of the worst, many other immigrants in America are being detained as well. William Brangham spoke with Leslie Gonzales, whose husband was arrested by agents near Boston. Amna Nawaz: Even as the Trump administration continues to insist that its immigration policies are only targeting the worst of the worst, many other immigrants in America are being detained as well.William Brangham speaks with the wife of one. William Brangham: Several weeks ago, Hernan Escobar on his way to his construction job outside of Boston…

Victoria Beckham review – meticulously constructed … but extremely boring | Television

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An intimate portrait of Victoria Beckham is what we were promised by the lavish publicity surrounding the release of the three-part documentary – entitled Victoria Beckham – about the female half of the enduring power couple, and an intimate portrait of the singer turned mogul is what was not delivered. It is about as intimate as a Pret sandwich, and if anyone thought for a moment it was going to be otherwise, well, let me introduce you to With Love, Meghan, whose searing insights into life as a duchess in Montecito are going to blow your mind.Victoria Beckham the documentary…

Battlefield alum DevAlly raises €2M to help companies with Europe’s feisty new accessibility law

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Many businesses that provide goods and services to the EU’s 450 million consumers must comply with new accessibility standards that took effect in June. Like the GDPR before it, this new act had companies scrambling to adjust their websites, e-commerce platforms, and banking apps. But despite similar standards existing in the U.S., many still have a long way to go. “One thing that surprised us was companies, even massive companies, coming to us two weeks before [the deadline] saying, ‘Oh we didn’t know anything about this,’” said Irish entrepreneur Cormac Chisholm. His startup, DevAlly, is among the first to leverage…

Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner: Are tennis courts being slowed to aid superstars?

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Bates was on tour between 1980 and 1996. He rarely played on a slow court."In that period of time, there were two completely separate tours," he explained."You had all the players who played on the clay, and then you had everyone else who played on the fast courts and the only time you would see the clay court players would be at the French [Open] and the only time we would see them would be at Wimbledon and the other Slams."All the indoor courts we played on were super slick. It was a question of how quick you could get…

Peloton revamps equipment, raises prices ahead of holidays

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Peloton on Wednesday said it's relaunching its product assortment, introducing a commercial equipment line and raising prices for both subscriptions and hardware as the company looks to reignite growth ahead of the holiday shopping season. The revamped assortment includes better audio, processors and WiFi across all of its machines. Its refreshed plus line will feature an AI-powered tracking camera, speakers, a 360-degree swivel screen and hands free control, among other new features. "The products are called the cross training series because we're trying to help our members … understand that the right regimen for everyone, right routine for everyone is a mix…

Founding Machine Learning Engineer at The Forecasting Company

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We are on a mission to create the forecasting foundation model to rule them all. Forecasting drives critical decisions worldwide - impacting staffing, supply chain management, finance and more. Our solution provides companies with the models, platform and APIs they need to easily generate the most accurate forecasts possible, helping to significantly reduce waste and enabling smarter, more confident decisions. The forecasting model is at the heart of our technology. As the second founding MLE, you will build, train and deploy large foundation model architectures: implement and combine ideas from the literature, push the state of the art, and ultimately…

Airports face delays as shutdown deepens air traffic control staffing woes

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Amna Nawaz: Thousands of flights have been delayed across the country this week, as the government shutdown enters its eighth day. In fact, more than 2,500 flights were delayed just today.In an interview with FOX News, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said controllers calling out sick were a significant reason for the huge spike in delays. Sean Duffy, U.S. Transportation Secretary: Historically, there's about 5 percent of delays that is attributed to staffing issues in our towers. In the last couple of days, it's been 53 percent. And so my message to the air traffic controllers who work for DOT is…

Mary Page Marlowe review – Susan Sarandon shines in slippery study of a life in pieces | Theatre

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If there is something familiar about a play comprising disparate scenes from a single woman’s life, performed by five different actors, that is because it was the central conceit of Annie Ernaux’s The Years, searingly adapted for the stage last year.Mary Page Marlowe premiered before that, in 2016, at the Steppenwolf theatre in Chicago, and takes similar shape. There are 11 scenes, non-chronological, that travel 70 years around the life of Mary Page Marlowe, an accountant, wife to three husbands, mother to two children and daughter of an alcoholic, who becomes perilously dependent on drink herself. She too is portrayed…

Novoloop’s upcycled plastic takes a step closer to production

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Plastic recycling startup Novoloop has inked a deal with a major manufacturer to produce its upcycled thermoplastic polyurethane at commercial scale, TechCrunch has exclusively learned. The agreement helps nudge the Menlo Park-based Novoloop through the so-called “valley of death” that many climate tech startups must slog through. Startups that depend on hardware are particularly susceptible to stumbling in the valley, the dreaded moment when they’ve proven their initial technology and have not generated sufficient revenues from selling their product. Under the terms of the deal, Novoloop will supply Huide Science and Technology with a chemical building block used to make…

England v Wales: We want to test ourselves against the best – Ben Davies

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Davies has played against England three times, including a 2-1 loss at Euro 2016 - a result that still rankles."The 2016 one, it still hurts the last-minute goal to concede, but in that one we were playing a game more result-dependent," he said."We're very lucky in this team that we have incredible guys all across the board, players that come in, players that maybe don't play every single time but show their best foot every time they come in."It's just a fun environment to be around. We enjoy each other's company on the pitch, off the pitch. It feels like…