Mavis Beacon Was a Fictional Character Played by a Real Saks Employee. Here's the Surprising Amount She Was Paid by the Typing Empire

As the New York Times reported in 1998, it was Les Crane who first spotted the woman who would be Mavis. Crane was a former disc jockey who went on to host ABC's The Les Crane Show for one year ...
The Blood-Horse

Australian Champion Via Sistina Retires

Via Sistina , Yulong's multiple group 1-winning champion, has been retired and will return to the United Kingdom to be covered by Darley's leading stallion Dubawi . The mare's trainer, Chris Waller, ...
IEEE

Techniques for Creating and Querying Relational Databases Using MySQL and AWS Cloud Services

Abstract: The work presents some techniques using MySQL Workbench and Amazon AWS RDS service applied for creating and querying MySQL databases. In this context, it is shown a way to querying a DB ...
SFGate

Mountain View: Parking Lot By City Hall To Close In January As Construction Begins On Affordable Housing Complex

A city-owned parking lot in Mountain View will close in January so that construction can begin on a new affordable housing project, the city said this week. The Lot 12 parking lot is located across ...
Yahoo

Stunning 4K Views Of PHANGS Galaxies Via James Webb Space Telescope

See amazing views of the M74, NGC 7496, IC 5332, NGC 1365, and NGC 1433 galaxies captured using the James Webb Space Telescope.The Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby Galaxies (PHANGS) ...
The Conversation

AI ‘workslop’ is creating unnecessary extra work. Here’s how we can stop it

Steven Lockey's position is funded by the Chair in Trust research partnership between the University of Melbourne and KPMG Australia. Nicole Gillespie receives funding from the Australian Research ...
MIT Technology Review

Microsoft says AI can create “zero day” threats in biology

Artificial intelligence can design toxins that evade security controls. A team at Microsoft says it used artificial intelligence to discover a "zero day" vulnerability in the biosecurity systems used ...
JournalofAccountancy

Using 3 Excel View tools to manage large spreadsheets

Q. I work with large spreadsheets. These spreadsheets have hundreds or even thousands of rows and often 10 or more columns. It’s so much to process that I become confused and make mistakes. Does Excel ...
The Nation Newspaper

‘How UNILORIN student is creating jobs via shea butter business’

A 500-Level Law student at the University of Ilorin(UNILORIN) is neck-deep in entrepreneurship, employing fellow students, empowering women and rewriting the narrative for young Nigerians in a country ...