Question: Compare and contrast the security advantages of Apple Pay versus Google Wallet.

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Apple CEO Tim Cook spoke before President Barack Obama at a cybersecurity summit at Stanford University on Friday, and he was able to slip a few major Apple Pay announcements into his talk reiterating his commitment to privacy.
There were two big Apple Pay developments from today’s talk: First, Apple Pay will be “available for many transactions with the federal government.” Cook specifically cited paying for admission at national parks, but it’s not hard to imagine Apple Pay support expanded to the gift shop at the Smithsonian, for instance, or for foreigners paying fees for visa applications. The federal government will begin to accept Apple Pay starting in September, but whether you will be able to use your iPhone to pay Uncle Sam on September 1st probably depends on how the government procures NFC-enabled point-of-sale systems, so it could take a while.
The second announcement is a much bigger deal: In a press release, the White House announced that it was was working with big financial networks to enable Apple Pay for federal payment cards — specifically those for Social Security payments and veteran’s benefits.
Social Security payments used to come through the mail, in the form of a check. But in 2013, a new policy went into effect requiring those receiving benefits to receive payments electronically. That leaves two choices: Signing up for direct deposit, or receiving a pre-paid debit card called DirectExpress that’s automatically refilled, which is the option for those without a bank account. If Apple Pay were to work with DirectExpress debit cards, it would mean that pensioners could pay for their morning coffee at McDonalds with their iPhones.
The fact sheet also says the federal government would like to get Apple Pay working with GSA SmartPay cards, but unless you’re a government employee expensing travel, you’re unlikely to have one of those.
According to the Social Security Administration, there are currently over 55 million Americans receiving Social Security benefits worth over $71 billion in aggregate per month. Clearly, it’s a big market. And although not every dollar coming in to beneficiaries through Social Security will be spent through Apple Pay, even a small chunk of that is massive.
“We can imagine a day in the not-so-distant future when your wallet becomes a remnant of the past, your passport, your driver’s license, and other important documents can be digitally stored in a way that’s safe, secure, and easy to access,” Cook said.
One big advantage the iPhone platform has over Android for government applications is that Apple controls and implements trusted execution environments in its own chips, which it calls its Secure Enclave and Secure Element. The Secure Enclave helps keep the user’s fingerprint and other critical information separate from the main operating system, helping prevent it from being hacked or spoofed, is a big reason why Apple Pay has a higher degree of tokenization than Google Wallet. On Android devices, the secure element is implemented by chip companies like Qualcomm or ARM, as well as manufacturers like Samsung, meaning that Google simply has less control over applications — like payments — where security is the top priority.
By tacitly endorsing Apple Pay at a cybersecurity conference, the White House has given Apple its security seal of approval. Considering governments won’t accept digital documents without first ensuring the software that powers them is secure, that’s a big deal.
Imagine a hacker stealing your passport and spoofing it on his own device. That wouldn’t just be annoying, that could be dangerous on a national security level. As we increasingly carry important credentials on our devices — the state of Iowa is going to start issuing smartphone driver’s licenses this year — security becomes paramount. If Apple has the inside track on getting government approval for its smartphone security, as our wallets become part of our devices, then government applications could come to iPhone first, and Android second.
Meanwhile I can add federal payment cards to Google Wallet on my Android device right now (and have been able to for the past 2 years). Yawn.
How many social security recipients does the author imagine exist that both 1) DO NOT have a bank account and 2) DO have an iPhone?
Good question. Now ask, “How many unbanked will get an iPhone just for this?” Not so many, but it’s all incremental. And people do buy used iPhones for prepay plans.
Still this is just one increment, a large one, in the Apple Pay ecosystem.
End to end control of the platform is required for security and this is where Apple has the advantages.
It is possible otherwise, but becomes very difficult and requires lots of cooperation. I actually think the Windows phones have a better chance of being second.
There was an incredible statistic that only 1.6% of Android users were on the latest release, Lollipop because of the delays of pushing down from Android to the many, many manufacturers and then carriers.
Meanwhile, IOS 8 is about 70% and iPhone 6/6+ is turning over users very quickly.


Question: Give an opinion about a project that converts a Fiat 500e electric car into one with a larger battery, faster charging and improved range.

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We all remember the Volkswagen e-Golf improved by Kreisel Electric with a 55,7 kWh battery and able to charge from 0 to 80 % in 20 minutes (via 150 kW CCS). Now Scuderia-E gives a similar treatment to the Fiat 500e.
Carlos Noya from the Spanish website FCE wrote an interesting article about the Fiat 500e improved by Scuderia-E and it’s worth reading.
Scuderia-E is a company dedicated to electric car conversions created by Gianfranco Pizzuto (co-founder of Fisker Automotive).
This company imports used Fiat 500e units from the USA, where they are officially sold by Fiat, then sells them in Europe.
To build the 40 and 56 kWh battery packs, Scuderia-E uses cylindrical 18650 cells from Sony. Furthermore, the Fiat 500e gets fast charging capability with the introduction of a CCS (type 2 variant) socket, which enables it to charge from 0 to 80 % in just 20 minutes.
The original battery pack made with Samsung SDI prismatic cells will be used in energy storage systems in developing countries.
Considering that in Europe VAT is around 20 %, this makes the 40 kWh version cost 30.000 €, then you still have to pay for transport and possibly other fees. The new Nissan Leaf offers much better value for the money. However, this project is important to show what’s possible to do with current battery technology.
While I think that Fiat is a lost case, I still have hopes to see this automaker to improve the Fiat 500e and start selling it worldwide. Samsung SDI will introduce 120 Ah battery cells this year and if Fiat decides to use them, it can give a 43 kWh battery to the Fiat 500e for a 164 miles (264 km) EPA range. Complement it with fast charging via a CCS connector and it’ll be a very nice electric car.
The dinosaur Sergio Marchionne, FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) CEO retires at the end of this year. Improving the Fiat 500e before retiring it’s one of the few things that he can still do to leave a positive legacy.
What do you think about this project? Will it push Fiat to release a much improved 2019 Fiat 500e?
Wow! Very Cool. I need a 56kWh Battery for my 2013 Nissan LEAF!
I think it is a good idea, but I think it is way too expensive. I would also be careful buying a car that is not supported by the manufacturer in the part of the world I live in. So I wouldn’t buy a Fiat 500e in Europe, but battery upgrades for cars like the Volkswagen e-Up or der Renault Zoe would be interesting.
I love my stock 500e but of course it would be even better with a fast charge option &/or more range at the same weight (or just a bit more range at even less weight for even better performance & safety). However in America an e500x with competitive range would sell much better.
Also FCA is for sale & the most likely buyer is Chinese, which would probably speed up Fiat’s electrification.
Our company, Quick Charge Power, will offer a CHAdeMO compliant quick Charge option for the Fiat 500e in late 2019.
That’s awesome! What will be the price range? Would a special shop have to install it?
If it’s like their other models, it’ll be about $3,000 and can be installed by anyone that can do it safely or at their shop in San Marcos, CA.
That IS awesome, for those who need it. QCP’s other kits* are $3k & user-installable. They have personal safety warnings about the latter, however it strongly implies that a local auto shop would be able to do it, especially if they do ICE electrical work.


Question: What do you think about Coles' new Little Shop promotion?

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PARENTS are already forking out eye-watering sums online to make sure they don’t miss out on Coles’ tiny little products.
WHO said plastic was dead?
Just two days after launch, complete sets of Coles’ range of miniature versions of popular products like Nutella, Vegemite and Weet-Bix are fetching more than $300 on eBay, and individual toys are selling for as much as $15 each.
Meanwhile, nearly 10,000 people have already signed up to various groups on Facebook dedicated to swapping the tiny toys to complete the set of 30 before the marketing promotion ends in six weeks.
“The customer response to our Little Shop collectable offer has been fantastic, and we’re pleased to see people are finding ways to build and complete their collections,” a Coles spokesman said.
The promotion, which aims to emulate the success of Woolworths’ animal cards and Marvel superhero discs, was criticised by environmental groups and some customers coming on the heels of the July 1 plastic bag ban.
In response, Coles said the idea was for customers to “keep and collect them rather than throw them out”.
“When customers are at the supermarket they have a choice as to whether they would like to receive a mini collectable or not and customers are able to recycle the wrappers at their nearest store through our in-store REDCycle program,” the company wrote.
The promotion was largely funded by the brands themselves and developed by marketing company Unga, which successfully rolled out the idea in overseas markets including The Netherlands, New Zealand and South Africa.
“We know our customers love collectables so we have worked with our suppliers to launch a new collectable campaign in our supermarkets across Australia from Wednesday,” Coles managing director John Durkan said on Wednesday.
“We have designed them together with our suppliers to be miniature replicas of some of the most loved products on our supermarket shelves. Little Shop features 30 iconic, household brands — including Vegemite, Nutella and Weet-Bix — which are shrunk down into a mini collectable for customers to collect and swap.
Mr Durkan said Coles would also be holding a “Swap Day” in August at selected stores to help customers complete their collections before the six-week promotion ends.
Citi analyst Brian Raymond predicted the Little Shop promotion could boost Coles’ first-quarter like-for-like sales by 50 to 100 basis points, narrowing the gap to Woolworths further.
“Little Shop is a collectable campaign which has been run successfully in several countries, including The Netherlands in 2012, New Zealand 2013 and 2014, and South Africa in 2016 and 2017,” he said in a client note.


Question: Tell me something about Mandas Tuladhar.

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Mandas Tuladhar (Devanagari: मानदास तुलाधर) (1900-1975) was a Nepalese Buddhist scholar, Nepal Bhasa activist and pioneer publisher. He collected and published ancient hymns and folk songs which is his finest contribution to the preservation of Nepalese cultural heritage.


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Firebase Analytics is user and event-centric and gives you insight into what your users are doing in your app. You can also see how your paid advertising campaigns are performing with cross-network attribution, which tells you where your users are coming from. You can see all of this from a single dashboard.
Firebase Analytics is also integrated with other Firebase offerings to provide a single source of truth for in-app activity and through a feature called Audiences. Audiences let you define groups of users with common attributes. Once defined, these groups can be accessed from other Firebase features -- to illustrate, we’ll reference Audiences throughout this post.


Question: Respond in 1 sentences. Describe Eastville Stadium.

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Eastville Stadium, also known as Bristol Stadium and Bristol Stadium – Eastville, was a stadium in Eastville, a northern suburb of the English city of Bristol.


Question: Describe the potential risks and consequences of the US military exercise in Korea on Monday.

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Massive US-Korean Military Exercise Coinciding With Rare Solar Eclipse Could Spark War - Breaking Israel News | Latest News. Biblical Perspective.
On Monday, tens of thousands of US soldiers will simulate battles just south of the volatile border that separates North and South Korea, causing several world governments to worry that this huge multinational military exercise could inadvertently spark World War III. In a strange coincidence, the military maneuvers commence while a rare solar eclipse, prophesied as a bad omen for “kings of the east”, passes over America.
On Monday, the US will begin a large-scale ten-day multinational military exercise in South Korea named Ulchi-Freedom Guardian (UFG). Approximately 25,000 American service members will participate in the exercise, with about 2,500 coming in from off-peninsula. Forces from South Korea (ROK) will participate, as well as militaries from nine other countries: Australia, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Italy, Philippines, United Kingdom and New Zealand.
The US holds two major exercises annually in Korea focused on defending South Korea from the north: Foal Eagle and Key Resolve in March or April, and the UFG in August. These joint exercises have been held since the Korean War ended in a ceasefire in 1953 and have always been a point of contention, but this year, as tensions rise between the US and North Korea, the exercise has become a major source of concern.
The threat of escalation due to the military exercise is so serious that other nations have stepped in to encourage the US to cancel the exercise. Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, said in a statement to the media last Friday that Moscow was deeply worried and considered the risk of military conflict between the US and North Korea “very high”. He suggested a plan under which North Korea would halt missile tests if the US and South Korea would cancel the military exercises.
The Russian suggestion has an unfortunate precedent. In 1992, Washington and South Korea suspended an annual exercise called Team Spirit as part of diplomatic efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear program. North Korea later reneged on its agreements and the US resumed military exercises.
Objections to the exercises have also come out from China. “The drill will definitely provoke Pyongyang more, and Pyongyang is expected to make a more radical response. If South Korea really wants no war on the Korean Peninsula, it should try to stop this military exercise,” read an editorial in China’s Global Times.
The already-tense international situation began to heat up in the beginning of August when the US and the United Nations enacted harsh economic sanctions against North Korea in response to illegal nuclear tests and test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles.
North Korea responded by running more tests, leading to a US warning in the form of two US B-1 bombers overflying the Korean Peninsula two weeks ago. North Korea responded by threatening Guam, where the US bombers were stationed, with nuclear retaliation.
Undaunted, President Donald Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury like the world has never seen”. He doubled down on Friday by saying that the US was “locked and loaded” to take on North Korea and that the rogue nation’s supreme leader, Kim Jong Un, would “regret it fast” if he attacked the US territory of Guam. Though the North Korean leader retracted his threat, spy satellite photos released four days ago revealed North Korean mobile missile launcher movement.
The fears that the upcoming military exercises may set off a real-world conflict are well-grounded. In March, in reaction to the Foal Eagle exercises, North Korea test-fired four ballistic missiles. This led to a Pentagon announcement that it was deploying a missile defense system known as Terminal High Altitude Area Defense on the Korean Peninsula with the approval of the government in Seoul.
The commencement of the military exercise coincides with a rare solar eclipse that will traverse the entire United States. An esoteric Jewish book written in Safed (Tsfat) over a century ago warned that a solar eclipse on the eve of the Hebrew month of Elul, beginning Monday night, signals that the “kings of the east will suffer great destruction”. Rabbi Yosef Berger, rabbi of King David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, told Breaking Israel News that in light of current rising political and military tensions, he interprets this to mean Kim Jong Un is clearly the eastern leader referred to in this prophecy.


Question: How do I make Keto Curried Chicken Salad?

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Combine all ingredients, salt to taste.
Serve in lettuce cups, over salad, in endive cups or with crudités.
Poll time! Who else hasn’t quite found their New Year, New Me groove yet?
I’m not ready to put much effort into anything, really. My meal prep has to be on point, and I want easy everything. We’ve been starting our weeks lately with an entire sheet tray of chicken breast, that we season with salt and pepper and oven bake. It’s awesome for throwing together a simple chopped salad, or reheating alongside some steamed broccoli. But it’s definitely getting a little boring.
I’ve decided to kick it up a couple spicy notches so we don’t all die of food boredom. Curry powder is the pop of flavor I need! Plus, curry powder is like nature’s medicine and everyone is sick right now and to that, I say BE GONE! So what better way to use this miracle curry than some bland ole chicken salad. And thus, Keto Curried Chicken Salad is born.
I’m still super into the lettuce wraps lately, so anything I can shove in there and immediately into my gullet, I’m down. It’s effortless and filling, plus, I’m still not quite feeling the heavy foods lately. I know it’s winter and all, but I’m loving the light stuff and by golly, I’m gonna go with it! It’s nice when my fat tooth takes a vacation.
I’ve included some optional add-ins, one being bacon, because, bacon. Another being chopped egg. I dunno why, but I love chopped eggs in any creamy based salad – and when they’re missing, I get sad. So if you’re like me, boil a few and toss them in. The yolk creates another layer of yum when it blends in with the mayo. My last suggestion is for the peeps who aren’t adhering to Keto, and wanna add a little sweetness. Golden raisins are PERFECT in here, adding a chewy sweet bite against the pungent flavor and heat of curry powder. My next carb up day, I’m making this recipe and adding alllllll of the raisins! Try and stop me.


Question: Could you tell me about Patrick Joseph O'Brien? Respond in 109 words.

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Patrick Joseph O'Brien (1835 – 10 January 1911) was Irish Nationalist Member of Parliament for North Tipperary, 1885-1906.
He was the only son of James O'Brien of Nenagh, County Tipperary and of Bridget, daughter of John Gunning Regan. He was educated at local schools and became a hotel proprietor. In 1878 he married Bridget, daughter of Denis Hayes of Ballintoher, Nenagh. He was chairman of the Nenagh Town Commissioners, 1880–87 and 1890–91, and first Catholic Chairman of the Nenagh Board of Guardians, 1885-99. In 1882 he was arrested as a suspect and confined in Naas gaol. Later he was a County Councillor, and Chairman of the District Council, 1899-1900.


Question: What steps is the City of Seattle taking to address traffic congestion associated with the new Highway 99 tunnel? Respond in 515 words.

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The Seattle City Council might spend $200,000 to study traffic options once the Highway 99 tunnel opens. Tolling on the tunnel will divert cars to already-congested downtown streets. One thing the study would look at: tolling on downtown streets.
It’s only $200,000 out of a $6 billion budget. But it’s enough to raise some eyebrows.
Congestion pricing means tolling. A study of tolling on downtown Seattle streets.
The 99 tunnel is set to open, with tolls, in early 2019. The toll prices are yet to be determined, but they’re sure to cause some drivers to divert off 99 to avoid the charges.
City Councilmember Mike O’Brien wants to study who’s going to use the tunnel, who’s going to skip the tunnel’s tolls for already-packed downtown surface streets and what the city might do to keep downtown from becoming utterly impassable.
How much drivers will pay to use the new tunnel continues to be a matter of much study and debate. It’s a tenuous pas de deux between two competing priorities: Tolls must be high enough to raise the money needed to help pay for the tunnel, but low enough so that drivers will use the tunnel, and not veer onto surface streets and Interstate 5, both of which are at capacity.
While the city will offer input, the ultimate decision on toll rates in the tunnel will be made by the Washington State Transportation Commission. A consultant’s study earlier this year predicted about 20,000 to 25,000 additional vehicles on I-5 and surface streets, depending on various tolling scenarios.
O’Brien wants to know who’s going to use the tunnel, who’s going to use surface streets and how many of them could potentially be nudged onto transit instead.
Are people driving just because they prefer it, or is there no other option?
“We’re very sensitive to the reality of, ‘I’m a construction worker, I come downtown with a bunch of tools, it’s not practical to take the bus,’ ” O’Brien said.
He said the city is “a long ways” from even having a discussion about congestion pricing — tolling on downtown streets or to enter downtown. And if Seattle ever did it, O’Brien said, there would be a “massive expansion” in transit service. The city could, conceivably, implement such a system without the Legislature’s approval, but it would have to be approved by Seattle voters.
Both candidates for mayor of Seattle, Jenny Durkan and Cary Moon, have said the city should explore congestion pricing downtown.
Tolling has proved effective at reducing traffic in a number of European cities, and an 18-month experiment in the Puget Sound region, 15 years ago, showed that raising prices on drivers would have dramatic effects on traffic in the region.
Most recently, New York City has begun to talk about tolling in the most congested areas of Manhattan, after a similar plan was scrapped a decade ago.
“Places around the country are starting to have what I would say are the beginnings of conversations about this and politically it’s a really hard conversation to have because nobody really likes tolls,” O’Brien said.


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George Skirrow Beecroft (16 November 1809 – 18 March 1869) was a British Conservative Party politician and ironmaster.
Born in 1809, Beecroft was the son of George Beecroft and Mary Audus. He first married his cousin Septima Garland Butler, daughter of Thomas Butler and Anne Beecroft in 1835. Together, they had two children. The first died in infancy, and the second, Septima, died in 1868. His wife, Septima, died in 1837.


Question: Describe the life and work of Thomas Gilbert. Respond in 4 sentences.

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Thomas Gilbert was a British architect who lived from 1706 to 1776. He is best known for designing and building St. George's Church on the Isle of Portland. His architectural design, which he applied to the Church came from Christopher Wren, to whom he was an apprentice. When he died Thomas Gilbert was buried beneath St George's Church altar.


Question: Describe Ryan McGowan's transfer to Bradford City.

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 Describe Ryan McGowan's transfer to Bradford City.

Caltex Socceroos defender Ryan McGowan has swapped the UAE for England after joining League One outfit Bradford City on a permanent deal.
The signing, which will be finalised once he gets an international clearance, will see McGowan play for Bradford until the end of the 2018/19 season.
It’s a crucial move for the 28-year-old, who is desperate to play consistently to force his way into the Caltex Socceroos squad for June’s FIFA World Cup in Russia.
McGowan links up with the Bantams on a free transfer from UAE Arabian Gulf League side Al-Sharjah.
The well-travelled Aussie defender has also played for Hearts – where he won the 2012 Scottish Cup Final - and Dundee United in Scotland.
McGowan also featured for Chinese Super League club Shandong Lueng Taishan during his first spell in the country, before returning two years later to play for Henan Jianye and Guizhou Hengfeng Zhicheng.
He has played 20 times for the Caltex Socceroos, including all three group matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.
Famously, it was McGowan’s lofted cross which allowed Tim Cahill to score his spectacular volley against the Netherlands in Porto Alegre.
If McGowan’s international clearance comes through in time, he could make his debut in Sunday morning’s (AEDT) clash with AFC Wimbledon at Northern Commercials Stadium.


Question: Have you heard about the petition to de-amalgamate Toronto?

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A disgruntled Scarborough resident is fed up with Toronto’s city council and is hoping a petition will help start the process of de-amalgamation.
Scarborough and surrounding Toronto municipalities merged to form the modern City of Toronto in 1998 after then-premier Mike Harris passed amalgamation legislation that was proposed as a way to save the province money. The controversial bill was heavily opposed at the time, and calls for de-amalgamation have resurfaced over the years since it was enacted.
“Property taxes in Scarborough have been continually going up and services have been declining,” McDermott said, adding the amalgamated council has fuelled division between downtown Toronto and the suburbs surrounding it.
Online, McDermott’s campaign has failed to receive much traction, with just over 90 signatures on the online petition as of Tuesday afternoon. However, he said he has received about 3,200 signatures from going door-to-door in Scarborough. McDermott hopes to gather enough signatures by the end of 2017 to compel municipal and provincial officials to launch a referendum on de-amalgamation.
John Sewell, who was mayor and councillor in the late 1970s and early 1980s and was against amalgamation, believes that council is both too large and that the area it covers is too vast.
A 2013 study from the University of Toronto’s Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance found that amalgamation resulted in a city that is both too small to address regional issues that plague the GTA, such as transportation, and too big to be responsive to local residents.
While it is certainly possible to undo amalgamation, it is not an easy process – and one that the province has shown little interest in, said Lydia Miljan, an associate professor of political science at the University of Windsor.
Miljan and Zachary Spicer co-authored a 2015 Fraser Institute study looking at the process of de-amalgamation, focusing on whether it was possible to reverse the process and whether it is the best decision when it comes to finances and governance. That study found while there is no reason de-amalgamation cannot be pursued, it is often not desirable.
Spicer also said there isn’t political motivation for the province to re-open the issue of amalgamation.
“The province used a lot of political capital to amalgamate, and to de-amalgamate now would be a fight they don’t need. There’s not a whole lot of benefit to do it,” he said.
McDermott understands it’s a difficult process, but he hopes the campaign will get both residents and politicians talking.


Question: Write a short story based on a leaked memo from the Trump administration.

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STANKONIA—A leaked memo from the Trump administration has revealed that Donald Trump has extended a settlement offer to the FBI in regards to their investigation into the Russian relationships of Trump and various others attached to him.
FBI director James Comey could neither confirm nor deny the authenticity of the unpresidented memo due to an inability to stop his head from spinning.
At press time, the cafeteria at FBI headquarters was serving Trump steaks for lunch.


Question: Have you heard anything about new MacBook Pros?

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 Have you heard anything about new MacBook Pros?

According to the report, which cites a “reliable Chinese supplier,” Apple plans to both announce the new MacBook Pro this month, as well as to ship it to retailers. Like has been rumored in the past, the new MacBook Pros are expected to feature support for USB-C and Thunderbolt 3. As for other ports, though, Apple is said to be ditching support for traditional USB ports, as well as for MagSafe and Thunderbolt 2.
Furthermore, this evening’s report claims that Apple plans to discontinue the 11-inch MacBook Air model, though it will keep the 13-inch model on the market. There has been doubt surrounding the fate of the MacBook Air lineup since the introduction of the 12-inch MacBook, but Apple reportedly wants to simply direct its attention to the 13-inch Air, not the 11-inch variant. The 11-inch MacBook Air is expected to be discontinued when the new MacBook Pros are announced.
Specific dates are still up in the air as far as announcement and release, but they are still on track to happen this month. In addition to the port changes, Apple is also expected to introduce an OLED touch bar with the new MacBook Pros, as well as bring a thinner design.
The MacBook Pro lineup is long overdue for an update so the announcement will surely be met with fanfare from users (myself included). An October date has been rumored for awhile, but as we progressed later into the month, some were starting to speculate that Apple had pushed the release into 2017.


Question: Describe the US economic growth in the first quarter of 2017.

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10.16am EDT 10:16 Larry Fink: US is growing slower than France!
Phew! Economists and investors are catching their breath after a busy day dominated by growth figures from the eurozone, the UK and America.
There’s some disappointment that Britain, the United States and France all grew slower than expected in January to March. But there’s no panic.
American GDP is expected to rebound this quarter, while the UK seems to be settling into a period of slower growth due to the pick-up in inflation, and some Brexit uncertainty.
Larry Fink: US is growing slower than France!
Larry Fink, the head of fund management firm BlackRock, has said it’s “terrible” that America grew slower than France in the last quarter.
Fink is speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago, where he expressed concern about the US slowdown.
Larry Fink doesn't pull punches on GDP #s : "we are the slowest growing country in the G7 ... that's really bad, we're slower than France."
[Reminder, we learned today that French GDP rose by 0.3%, or 1.2% on the US-style ‘annualised basis’].
The US stock market isn’t too concerned by the growth figures.
The Dow Jones industrial average has dipped in early trading, but the technology-focused Nasdaq hit a new record high.
That’s due to Amazon and Alphabet (Google), which both posted strong results after the closing bell on Thursday night.
The weather is copping some blame for the slowdown in US growth.
Unusually mild conditions meant Americans spent less money heating their homes and offices during the winter, which equates to lower economic activity.
“Warm weather meant consumers weren’t spending as much on electricity and natural gas and home heating.
The slowdown in the first quarter this year was principally due to a near-stagnation in consumption, which increased by only 0.3% annualised.
Household spending was held down by a drop back in motor vehicle sales from a near-record high at the end of last year and the unseasonably warm winter weather, which depressed utilities spending. But consumer confidence is unusually high and real personal disposable income increased at a 4% annualised pace in the first quarter. Consumption growth will rebound in the second quarter.
Another former Democratic official argues that we shouldn’t panic about the US growth figures.
Jason Furman, who chaired president Obama’s council of economic advisors, points out that growth will likely rebound in the April-June quarter.
If Q2 comes in at its current track of 3.8% (a big if) then the first 1/2 of this yr will--once again--be normal. So stop hyperventilating.
It may be tempting to contrast Donald Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again” with the news that US economic growth has hit a three year low on his watch.
This certainly isn’t the start that Trump had in mind during the campaign, when he boasted that America could grow by more than 4% per year if he were in charge.
But I don’t think you can really blame the new president for the slowdown in Q1 (especially if you’re also criticising him for not getting much done in his first 100 days). The consequences of Trump’s presidency will only emerge over many months and years.
We haven’t yet had the expected fiscal stimulus from Trump, the effects of which may not be seen until the end of this year or the start of 2018.
If you're blaming Q1 GDP on Trump you're not only economically illiterate but further blinded by your politics.
Yr/yr Q1 GDP growth 1.9%. That's a less noisy measure for Q1 and on recent trend.
As you can see, America’s economy also grew modestly in Q1 2016, and actually shrank in Q1 2014. The first three months of 2015 weren’t amazing either.
The U.S. economy turned in the weakest performance in three years in the January-March quarter as consumers sharply slowed their spending. The result repeats a pattern that has characterized the recovery: lackluster beginnings to the year.
The slowdown primarily reflected slower consumer spending, which grew by just 0.3 percent. That was the poorest showing in more than seven years. Analysts blame in part the unusually warm winter, which meant less spending on utility bills.


Question: Can Representative Justin Amash get Senator Rand Paul to join him in opposing the Supreme Court nominee?

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Representative Justin Amash is the sole member of Congress who's come out against the Supreme Court nominee, citing his record on privacy. Can he get Senator Rand Paul to join him?
As a member of the House, Representative Justin Amash does not have a vote on Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court. But that hasn’t stopped him from waging what is, so far, a lonely Republican campaign to defeat President Trump’s pick to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Amash has taken issue with Kavanaugh’s rulings in support of National Security Agency spying programs. The lawmaker’s willingness to oppose Trump and the Republican leadership in Congress is not new; Amash regularly votes against GOP bills in the House, and unlike most in his party, he’s willing to entertain the possibility of impeaching Trump if the president were to pardon himself in the Russia investigation.
But Amash’s campaign against Kavanaugh is noteworthy for its isolation: Out of 287 elected Republicans in Congress, he appears to be the only one to vocally oppose the president’s nominee. Kennedy’s retirement and a quickly leaked list of finalists to replace him spawned a two-week debate on the right over Kavanaugh and three other contenders, Judges Amy Comey Barrett, Raymond Kethledge, and Thomas Hardiman.
Party unity is especially key to this process, because unless cancer-stricken Senator John McCain of Arizona makes an unexpected return to Washington in the coming weeks, a single Republican defection would doom Kavanaugh’s nomination. Democrats have targeted Senators Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska because of their support for abortion rights, and while they have not vowed to support Kavanaugh, they have made positive initial comments about his qualifications.
Paul has already signaled his vote may be up for grabs, telling Fox News he is “concerned about Kavanaugh.” Like Amash, he compared the judge unfavorably to Justice Neil Gorsuch, the president’s pick to take the late Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court.
Paul, who has tried to filibuster legislation reauthorizing the NSA spying programs, said on Fox, “I disagree completely.
“There are 10 amendments listed in the Bill of Rights,” he continued, “and so the Fourth Amendment is one of them. So we’re already down one. Let’s see how he does on the other nine.” Paul said he would have “a frank discussion” with Kavanaugh about privacy rights when he met with him.
Then again, Paul might not be gettable for Amash either. Paul voted against Trump’s nominee to lead the CIA, Gina Haspel, over her involvement in the Bush-era torture program. But he has also threatened to oppose Trump policies or nominees and then reversed himself, most notably when he voted in favor of CIA Director Mike Pompeo’s elevation to secretary of state after criticizing the pick for weeks.
In Kavanaugh’s case, Paul has said he is merely undecided—not opposed. And given how close he has tried to stay to Trump on other issues, he seems inclined to support the president’s second nominee to the Supreme Court. Without his vote, Amash’s uphill fight against Kavanaugh would become yet more solitary—and more futile.


Question: What type of insect is Epilepia melanobasis? Respond in 2 sentences.

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Epilepia melanobasis is a species of snout moth in the genus "Epilepia". It was described by George Hampson in 1906, and it is known from South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe.


Question: What is Pristimantis exoristus? Respond in 1 sentences.

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Pristimantis exoristus is a species of frog in the family Craugastoridae.


Question: What happened at RAF Mildenhall?

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RAF Mildenhall is used by the US Air Force for refuelling and was the target of a planned attack by an IS supporter last year.
A US Air Force base was placed on lockdown after an unauthorised man drove through the checkpoint and was shot at as he sped towards a military plane, police said.
The 44-year-old British man failed to follow security directions at the entrance to RAF Mildenhall, near Bury St Edmunds, at 1.40pm on Monday, Superintendent Kim Warner, of Suffolk Police said.
He drove onto the base and there was a "short pursuit" until the vehicle was stopped by US military personnel, he said.
Sky sources said the man pretended to be someone else to get through the checkpoint.
There were initial reports of a car being rammed into the checkpoint, but Supt Warner said he was "unaware of any damage to the base itself".
He added: "There is no obvious motive at this stage."
Supt Warner said the vehicle was stopped close to a US Osprey, a £43m helicopter which converts into a turboprop airplane once airborne.
He said there was not thought to be "any significant damage" to the vehicle or the aircraft.
US military personnel shot at the man who avoided serious injury and was stopped by US security services with some cuts and bruises.
The base was put on lockdown, as were schools in the local area.
Police said the man is being held on suspicion of criminal trespass, with the incident not being treated as terrorism.
"There is no wider threat to the public or occupants on the base and no other people have been injured," a spokesman added.
Senior Master Sergeant Brian Boisvert told Sky News: "We are notified by our types of mass communication that an incident has occurred so what we will hear is the words lockdown, lockdown, lockdown - and at that point we will respond by going in to a sheltering place."
A National Police Air Service helicopter was also called to the base.
The lockdown was lifted at about 2.50pm, nearly two hours after the incident started.
A member of staff at Jumppin Jacks Funhouse, an adventure play centre in Mildenhall, said: "All the American children playing here suddenly left, but we didn't hear anything or know why."
Police are continuing to deal with an ongoing incident at RAF Mildenhall, it is considered that there is no wider threat to the public or occupants on the base. One man has been arrested and police are not looking for anyone else on the site.
A statement from RAF Mildenhall said: "RAF Mildenhall locked down at 1pm today following reports of a disturbance on base.
"Individuals in the area surrounding the installation are asked to avoid the base at this time."
A Pentagon spokesman in Washington said: "The security incident has been contained and a suspect has been apprehended."
Supt Warner said there would be an internal investigation by the base into the shots fired and the security breach.
RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, another US base next to it, have both been subjected to terror threats in the past few years.
Last year, a British-born "committed supporter" of Islamic State (IS) was jailed for life for planning a terrorist attack on five US Air Force bases in the UK, including RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath.
Delivery driver Junead Khan, 25, from Luton, used his job with a pharmaceutical company as cover to scout the bases.
Aircraft belonging to the US Air Force and NATO in Europe refuel at RAF Mildenhall.
Last year it was announced RAF Mildenhall was one of 56 MoD sites earmarked for closure.
The base is due to shut in 2022, with its 3,000 military personnel and their families due to move to Germany.


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Ruthless Vapor Eliquid is for those cloud chasers who don’t want to miss out on flavor at the same time! With tons of options that are truly unique in their combinations (seriously, where else are you going to find a lychee and jackfruit juice?!) you are sure to find something that is going to rock your world, or at the very least, your taste buds. Ruthless vape juice is a high VG blend with 85% VG / 15% PG but don’t let that deter you in thinking that they are lacking in flavor. Ruthless E-juices aspiration to produce delicious candy vapes delivers with every hit you take of any of the flavors they have come up with! From simple Grape Drank giving you with that delicious grape soda flavor you’ve been dreaming of, to Swamp Thing that packs a punch of sour apple hard candy, there is 0 chance that you’ll want to put this line down once you’ve tried it yourself!


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 Describe the history of the US government’s apology for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Her use of the phrase “now considered” is worth noting. In that case, it took decades for the White House and lawmakers to admit that the U.S. government had been wrong.
It’s been just about 30 years since President Ronald Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act of 1988. That law paid out reparations of about $20,000 to every survivor of those internment camps “to right a grave wrong,” as he put it, which the law blamed on “racial prejudice, war hysteria and a failure of political leadership.” But, as noted by Mae Ngai, professor of Asian American Studies and professor of History at Columbia University, the apology and reparations came more than a generation after President Franklin Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 led to the rounding up of 120,000 Japanese-Americans, most of whom were U.S. citizens.
In early 1942, when Roosevelt signed that now-infamous order, the attack on Pearl Harbor of Dec. 7, 1941, was at the top of Americans’ minds. Many worried that, though actual sabotage was confined to rumor, the tens of thousands of American citizens whose families had come from Japan would turn on them. Roosevelt’s order allowed the military to exclude people from certain areas in the name of national security, and that translated to removing the Japanese-American population from much of the West Coast and putting them in camps for years.
Some protested at the start. Sen. Robert Taft was notably, according to historian Eric Foner’s overview of the debate, the only person to speak out in Congress against the order. The Quaker community opposed the move too, and TIME carried a reader letter that asked rhetorically whether there were any “greater atrocity in the annals of American history.” But the decision generally went down well in Washington. Groups like the NAACP and the American Jewish Committee that might be assumed to have opposed the internment did not speak up, and TIME described the mood on the West Coast as a “sigh of relief” that Roosevelt was protecting the people. Sen. Taft eventually stopped his protest. And in 1944, in the case of Fred Korematsu, an Oakland-born steel welder who tried and failed to resist the order to relocate, the Supreme Court upheld the idea behind the internment camps.
It was after the war ended, amid a shift in post-war relations with Japan, Ngai says, that public opinion began to change — slowly.
“As early as the 1950s, once the Communist revolution happened in China, and the Korean War, the U.S. considered Japan its number-one ally,” says Ngai.
By the early 1960s, TIME referred to the internment camps as “an ugly footnote” to the story of the war. Even so, the public apology was still decades away; acknowledging that the camps were “ugly” was not the same as saying they were a bad decision. When the government settled claims for property lost during that period, it avoided passing judgment on FDR’s choice.
It was later in the 1980s, after Congress established a Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, that the public learned the grisly details of the relocation process and life inside the camps, as internees testified at public hearings.
Japanese Americans at the Tule Lake segregation center in 1944.
Tule Lake Photo essay by Carl Mydans from the Mar. 20, 1944 issue of LIFE magazine.
A turning point came when Peter Irons, a political scientist at the University of California at San Diego, obtained key documents through a Freedom of Information Act request. The records detailed an internal investigation revealing that the federal government knew that Japanese-Americans weren’t actually a national security threat at all. In one document, “FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover stated that he could find no evidence to support the War Department’s contention that West Coast Japanese were signaling Japanese warships off the coast,” according to TIME’s reporting back then.
Those revelations formed the basis of a new case for Fred Korematsu. Nearly 40 years later after the original judgment in his case, he was able to show that the government lied to justify the evacuation. The claim that the internment of Japanese-Americans was justified by security concerns had never been based on serious threats.
In November of 1983, a federal judge in California vacated his conviction. As TIME summed up the legal perspective on both sides, “The Justice Department did not acknowledge any Government misconduct, but decided against fighting the case on the ground that the evacuation program was ‘an unfortunate episode in our nation’s history’ that would best be ‘put behind us.’ U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel pronounced the Government’s mealymouthed statement ‘tantamount to a confession of error.’ She added that the Supreme Court’s decision was ‘based on unsubstantiated facts, distortions and misrepresentations.'” Though the Supreme Court precedent technically still stands, Korematsu was effectively overturned.
Five years later, more than four decades after one of his predecessors signed the original order, President Reagan signed the official apology.
Ngai notes that there are some key differences between situation today and how Japanese-Americans were detained during World War II, but she says she sees value in Bush’s having drawn the connection. After all, a lesson that took 40 years to be confirmed is one that ought not be forgotten quickly.


Question: Who is Frank Huang?

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Huang Fu-yuan or Frank Huang (; born 10 October 1956) is a politician in the Republic of China. He was the Minister of the Directorate-General of Personnel Administration of the Executive Yuan from 28 March 2012 until 20 May 2016.


Question: Explain China's new Arctic policy and its implications for Canada. Respond in 51 sentences.

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Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s Northern tour didn’t come with any new spending announcements. Instead he talked up the importance of projects nearing completion, that he says will bolster Canada’s claim to Arctic sovereignty.
Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan's Northern tour didn't come with any new spending announcements. Instead he talked up the importance of projects nearing completion that he says will bolster Canada's claim to Arctic sovereignty.
Sajjan spent a day at CFS Alert and visited the Nanisivik refuelling station, near Arctic Bay, Nunavut, last week. Those visits followed a stop in Yellowknife to deliver new rifles to the Canadian Rangers.
At Alert, Canada's northernmost military base, he spoke about $10 million of ongoing infrastructure and equipment upgrades at the facility. Those include new firefighting systems, upgrades to fuel tanks and power generators.
"Arctic sovereignty is much more than national defence," he said. "These are Canadians, these are communities [of people] who actually live up in the North. Sovereignty is far more real because it's making sure communities have support so they can live.
"But let's also be very clear we want to ensure we have the national defence resources that we can equip the Canadian Armed Forces so we can protect our sovereignty."
"We need to do the proper research in the North to make sure we're making the right decisions as a government," Sajjan said.
"From a national defence perspective, we're going to be investing in research and development about what type of equipment is needed, what infrastructure's in place to guarantee Canada's sovereignty."
These upgrades to Canada's presence in the Arctic come as global interest focuses on the region. Russia, the United States, Denmark and Norway are all trying to assert their jurisdiction over parts of the Arctic as shrinking polar ice creates new opportunities for exploration.
China also has expressed interest in expanding its presence in the Arctic, issuing its "Polar Silk Road" policy last year. That policy encourages building Arctic infrastructure and Chinese economic activity in the region.
"I would describe the Arctic as the most dynamic area of geopolitics in the last five years," said Rockford Weitz, a professor at the Fletcher School at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
"The dominant current is one of co-operation, but there is an undercurrent of competition," he said. "That is driven by Vladimir Putin's investment in military infrastructure, largely for domestic reasons — to project a powerful Russian naval and military presence on Russia's longest coastline."
Though NATO countries should monitor these developments, there's still little incentive for countries to become aggressive about their claims in the near future, Weitz explained.
"The Arctic is still the Arctic," he said. "It is a warmer Arctic, but it's still, generally speaking, a cold part of the planet and a harsh environment. When things go wrong, search and rescue efforts happen, and they have to be collaborative.
"It's such a huge geography, the weather is so harsh, the population is so sparse, that co-operation is the dominant current in international relations in the High North," Weitz said.
So far, that's happened, he said. For example, the Arctic is one of the only areas where the Russian and United States militaries continue to communicate on a regular basis.
Rob Huebert, a professor at the University of Calgary who studies Canada's Arctic defence policy, says the Liberal government is meeting this situation with a playbook similar to the one used by the former Conservative government under Stephen Harper.
"When it came to the Arctic defence issues, it was fascinating to see the manner in which almost every single one of the [Harper-era] Arctic initiatives, offshore vessels, the modernization of NORAD, all of these were not only continued, but given enthusiastic support," he said.
"To a very large degree, at least in terms of the policy, we've seen a widespread acceptance of a traditional security policy when it comes to the Arctic."
During Sajjan's trip to Alert, he didn't talk about addressing Russia specifically, preferring to speak in general about how Canada is monitoring the Arctic.
The strength of Canada's Arctic defence policy lies in its commitment to international diplomacy, Sajjan said.
"We have ships from other nations that do follow the appropriate procedure. We will always work with like-minded partners for the research and development [of the Arctic]," Sajjan said. "But, Canada's sovereignty is something we take very seriously."
Those soothing words are just rhetoric, Huebert says. The Arctic isn't exempt from Russian actions and Canada is preparing for any potential conflict with Russia in the Arctic whether the government talks about it or not, he says.
"What all governments want to talk about in the Arctic and everything is peace and kumbaya. That's the rhetoric," he said. "But if you look at what we're actually preparing to do, you can see the focus is preparing for a much more darker future."
At this point, Canada doesn't have everything it needs to properly patrol the Arctic, Huebert said, but it is improving.
"We have the proper plans in position, but do we have them built? No. In Canada we know how difficult it is once we've decided on something, to actually build it," he said.
Alex Brockman is a CBC News reporter based in Yellowknife. He's worked in the North since 2016, covering territorial politics, Canada's military and the Sahtu region of the N.W.T. Follow him on twitter @BrockmanCBC. Have a story idea? Email him at alex.brockman@cbc.ca.
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Question: Could you tell me more about Higher Order Components in React?

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ReactJS Higher Order Components Tutorial is today’s leading topic. A higher-order component is a function that takes a component and returns a new component. A higher-order component (HOC) is the advanced technique in React.js for reusing a component logic. Higher-Order Components are not part of the React API. They are the pattern that emerges from React’s compositional nature. The component transforms props into UI, and a higher-order component converts a component into another component. The examples of HOCs are Redux’s connect and Relay’s createContainer.
2 Step 2: Create one new file inside src folder called HOC.js.
Just look at the syntax of Higher-Order Components.
Let us say; we have one component, which just lists the stocks id and its name.
So, first, we are going to create one StockList.js component.
In above, you can also write <Stocks></Stocks> in render() function. At that time, Stocks component will be rendered.


Question: "Describe Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh" Respond in 1 sentences.

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Muireadhach Albanach Ó Dálaigh ("Scottish Muireadhach") was a Gaelic poet and crusader and member of the Ó Dálaigh bardic family.


Question: Respond in 5 sentences. Describe the MBB 223 Flamingo aircraft.

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The MBB 223 Flamingo was a light aircraft developed in West Germany in the 1960s in response to a competition for a standard trainer for the country's aeroclubs. Designed by SIAT, it was a conventional low-wing monoplane with fixed tricycle undercarriage. The cockpit was enclosed by a large bubble canopy. SIAT had not undertaken much production of the type before the firm was acquired by MBB in 1970. Eventually, the new owners transferred production to CASA in Spain.


Question: Tell me about Blue River Technology's new 3D crop scanner.

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Startup Blue River Technology's new 3D crop scanner for breeders.
Blue River Technology — the startup that brought weed-killing lettuce robots to farms around California — quietly launched a 3D crop scanning tool last month in order to be ready for this year’s farming season, Blue River Technology CEO Jorge Heraud told Fortune. The tool, called Zea, has been under development for a year and a half, and like the lettuce robot, uses computer-based vision to scan farm fields and gather data about crops.
Blue River Technology is starting out by selling its 3D crop scanning tool as a service to corn plant breeders (with a fee per acre) who are keenly interested in gathering information about crops grown from various seeds in field trials. The breeders want to measure attributes of the crops such as the size of leaves, the effect of drought on plants, and how quickly crops are growing.
Evaluating crop breeding field trials is currently a tedious task that is mostly done manually by breeders walking down fields with analog tools, such as rulers. Fields sometimes need to be scanned multiple times to determine how quickly crops are growing.
The company’s initial corn breeder customers are mostly working in the midwest’s corn belt, but Blue River is also working with farms in California to gather data about trials for drought-tolerant crops. Universities are interested in using Zea for crop genetic research as well, says Heraud. Down the road, the four-year-old startup plans to sell the machines themselves to breeders.
The company’s lettuce robot — which scans a field using computer vision and douses just the weeds with deadly fertilizer — seems to be gaining traction in the market. Heraud says that 5 percent of the lettuce produced in the U.S. has been grown in California and Arizona using Blue River lettuce robots. “If you’ve eaten lettuce over the last few months, odds are the lettuce has been scanned by the lettucebot,” says Heraud.
The lettuce bot, which is in its fourth generation, can boost the yield of farms by 10% and can reduce operation costs by replacing human labor. Manually spraying and pulling weeds on a lettuce farms is a difficult job.
The Zea data scanner isn’t Blue River’s only new product coming to market. Next year Blue River hopes to deliver a prototype of a weed-killing robot that can operate in a similar way to its lettuce bot but for other crop types. “For the majority of farmers, weeds are not dying anymore. It’s an industry in crisis,” says Heraud. The idea would be to very selectively deliver fertilizer, chemicals or herbicides in ways that kill weeds only, but not the plants. Different substances would be needed for different crops.
The company is funded by Data Collective Venture Capital, Khosla Ventures, Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors, Steve Blank, Ulu Ventures, and Stanford Angels. The company closed on a $3.1 million seed round in 2012, and a $10 million round in 2014.


Question: Hey, I heard Telegram has new options for customizing the look of the app - is that true?

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We believe in freedom. This is why Telegram is a free and open platform – for stickers, for bots, and even for third-party client apps. We believe that if we give you freedom, you’ll know what to do with it.
Starting today, 85% of Telegram users can completely change what Telegram looks like for them. We are rolling out Custom Themes on Android, and will later support them on less popular platforms.
To switch to a different theme or create a new one, go to Settings > Theme. We‘ve included a Dark Theme in that menu for those of you who don’t want to use Telegram as a flashlight in dark places.
We've also added a Theme Editor to the app. You can now create new themes and easily share them with other users.
Check out the @AndroidThemes and Desktop Themes channels for more new themes made by Telegram users.
If you're using our iOS app, hold on for a couple of weeks. You‘ll get themes eventually, but for now we’re building something different for you – and it’s truly epic.