How to protect yourself from being blocked by Google, Dropbox, iCloud and OneDrive

How to protect yourself from being blocked by Google, Dropbox, iCloud and OneDrive

πŸ”₯ Explore this insightful post from WIRED πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Gear,Gear / How To and Advice,Access Granted πŸ“Œ Here’s what you’ll learn: If you are sensitive As for tech disasters, you might want to look away now: A recent Reddit thread tells the story of an unfortunate user who found 30 years of photos and works locked and inaccessible in Microsoft OneDrive.The individual used his cloud storage account to combine files from different hard drives, which had to be disposed of due to the move. The plan was to move files back from OneDrive to the new hard drives, but…
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How to turn $10,000 into a growing retirement fund

How to turn $10,000 into a growing retirement fund

πŸš€ Read this must-read post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Retirement Planning,Personal Finance βœ… Key idea: Key takeaways Investing $10,000 is a good way to start saving for retirement. You will have decades of compounded attention on your side. Choose tax-advantaged accounts for your investing, such as traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, and 401(k). Diversify your investments with low-cost index funds or ETFs. Stay consistent in your investment through stock market gains and losses. Make additional monthly contributions whenever you can to boost your investment. It may not seem like a lot to invest…
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Jonathan Rea: The six-time World Superbike Champion retires and misses the final race

Jonathan Rea: The six-time World Superbike Champion retires and misses the final race

πŸ’₯ Discover this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: Jonathan Rea's World Superbike career ended a race earlier than planned after crashing out of the Superpole race at Jerez. The six-time champion had planned to retire after the final event of the season in Spain. However, an injury he suffered in Sunday morning's Superpole Sprint race kept him out of the start of his final race. Rea came together with Australian Remy Gardner early on the opening lap and were both taken out of the gravel on a stretcher.A statement from the Yamaha team said…
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The Case for the Return of Fine-Tuning β€” SOTA

The Case for the Return of Fine-Tuning β€” SOTA

✨ Read this must-read post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Main takeaway: DΓ©jΓ  Tune Most of my reading this week focused on fine-tuning, sparked by Thinking Machines Labs’ announcement of Tinker. The six-month-old, already $12B-valued startup founded by OpenAI’s former CTO Mira Murati wants to bring fine-tuning back into the spotlight with a new fine-tuning-as-a-platform initiative positioned as a foundation for research collaborations with universities. A few days later, ClΓ©ment Delangue from Hugging Face posted that he sensed a paradigm shift toward self-managed, open-source, and specialized LLM deployments, even backed by dedicated hardware like NVIDIA’s DGX Spark, many…
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David Harewood returns to Othello: β€˜I don’t just want to open the door but kick it down for the people behind me’ | Theatre

David Harewood returns to Othello: β€˜I don’t just want to open the door but kick it down for the people behind me’ | Theatre

πŸ”₯ Explore this awesome post from Culture | The Guardian πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Theatre,David Harewood,William Shakespeare,Othello,Culture,Stage,Chiwetel Ejiofor πŸ’‘ Here’s what you’ll learn: β€œI had no intention of playing this character again. But as soon as the light went on, the house caught fire – and it’s been burning ever since.” David Harewood is talking about Othello, ahead of a new production from the Tony award-winning director Tom Morris that opens in London’s West End on 23 October. The production, which also features Toby Jones as Iago and Caitlin Fitzgerald as Desdemona, sees Harewood return to the role almost 30 years…
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Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review: A keyboard with strange layout options

Das Keyboard DeltaForce 65 review: A keyboard with strange layout options

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from WIRED πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Gear,Gear / Reviews,Gear / Products / Gaming,Gear / Products / Home Office,Product Review πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: A series of shallow grooves line the sides of the bottom half of the case. These appear to mimic the side sculpts of some limited-run custom keyboards, and have a functional purpose, making it easier to lift the keyboard. The design is reflected in the aluminum handle in the upper right corner, which has a similar shape. I really like that these designs are not just decorative, but actually have a functional purpose during…
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Alex Hartley says Women’s Cricket World Cup ‘ruined’ by ‘predicted’ Colombo rain

Alex Hartley says Women’s Cricket World Cup ‘ruined’ by ‘predicted’ Colombo rain

πŸ”₯ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ’‘ Key idea: The World Cup is four years away, but if you're a player or fan in Colombo, you've probably spent most of this tournament staring at the rain rather than enjoying a long-awaited game of cricket.Five of the nine matches played in the Sri Lankan capital were affected by rain, with four ending scoreless, prompting former England player Alex Hartley to say the conditions had "ruined" the World Cup.October is monsoon season on the island, with 300 to 370 mm of rain expected during the month.Hartley, who…
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Rising expenses are forcing seniors back into the workforce

Rising expenses are forcing seniors back into the workforce

πŸ’₯ Discover this trending post from Investopedia | Expert Financial Advice and Markets News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: Retirement Planning,Personal Finance βœ… Key idea: Key takeaways More seniors are returning to work because Social Security and savings are not keeping pace with rising costs of health care, housing and daily necessities.One in five Americans over the age of 65 have returned to the workforce, and expectations are for that number to rise even further. For seniors across the United States, returning to work has become less of a lifestyle choice and more of an economic necessity. While some are returning to…
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Robbie Savage: Forest Green Rovers boss condemns ‘vile abuse’ directed at him

Robbie Savage: Forest Green Rovers boss condemns ‘vile abuse’ directed at him

πŸ’₯ Read this insightful post from BBC Sport πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: βœ… Here’s what you’ll learn: A combative midfielder in his playing days with clubs such as Leicester City and Derby County, Savage became a high-profile pundit after his retirement from the game. He still presents the 606 call-in show on BBC Radio 5 Live alongside his managerial duties at Rovers and is known for dividing opinions among his listeners.But Savage, who turned 51 on Saturday, says not enough is being done when people go so far as personal abuse.β€œThe supervisors, the volunteers, whoever is standing there, he is [still]…
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Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday? Here’s What We Know So Far

Did Space Debris Hit A United Flight Over The Rockies Thursday? Here’s What We Know So Far

πŸ”₯ Check out this trending post from Hacker News πŸ“– πŸ“‚ Category: πŸ“Œ Main takeaway: A United flight from Denver to Los Angeles diverted to Salt Lake City on Thursday. The airline reported that flight 1093 made the decision to address a crack in one layer of its windshield. But was the plane actually hit by space debris? That’s one leading theory based on a photo shared by aviation watchdog JonNYC of the cockpit of the United Boeing 737 MAX 8 (registration N17327). Photo NOT confirmed Hearing there were scorch-marks, so space-debris or meteorite. pic.twitter.com/ird6QKEZv8 β€” JonNYC (@xJonNYC) October 17,…
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