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A new iPhone and iPad setting gives you control over how loud your device’s built-in speakers get, which can help you avoid being startled by loud auto-playing videos, waking up someone sleeping nearby, hurting your ears, or degrading your speakers’ quality and performance. You could already reduce loud audio levels for AirPods […]
Article content A study into the devastating wildfires that struck the Okanagan in 2023 has recommended that government and industry limit development in high-fire-risk areas. Article content The study, conducted by non-profit FP Innovations on the request of the B.C. FireSmart Committee and the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction, looked into the 2023 Grouse complex […]
1 The government has issued an ordinance raising the age limit for entering public sector jobs to 32. President Mohammed Shahabuddin issued the ordinance on Monday. The gazette of the ordinance was also published by the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division to expose information to the people yesterday. It sets the same age limit for […]
An L-plater has been slapped with a fine and had their permit suspended after allegedly twice-exceeding the legal speed limit before crashing into a house in western Sydney. Officers were patrolling Nottinghill Road in Regents Park, western Sydney about 5.10pm Monday afternoon when they detected an SUV allegedly exceeding the speed limit. Camera IconAn L-plater […]
NEW DELHI (AP) — Authorities in India’s capital shut schools, halted construction and banned non-essential trucks from entering the city on Monday after air pollution shot up to its worst level this season. Residents of New Delhi woke up to thick, toxic smog enveloping the city of some 33 million as the air quality became […]
Residents of India’s capital New Delhi choked in a blanketing toxic smog Wednesday as worsening air pollution surged past 50 times the World Health Organization’s recommended daily maximum. Cooler temperatures and slow-moving winds trap deadly pollutants. At dawn on Wednesday, “hazardous” pollutant levels in parts of the sprawling urban area of more than 30 million […]
Der Fall der neunköpfigen syrischen Großfamilie, der mit 4.600 Euro Mindestsicherung finanziert von den österreichischen Steuerzahlern ein sorgenfreies Leben in Wien beschert wird, sorgte im Sommer für einen Skandal. Während sich die Bevölkerung fassungslos zeigte und der zuständige SPÖ-Stadtrat Peter Hacker diesen Geldsegen verteidigte – Zitat: “Da gibt es nichts zusätzlich zu deckeln. Jedes Kind […]
16 min read · Sep 10, 2024 By Karthik Yagna, Baskar Odayarkoil, and Alex Ellis Pushy is Netflix’s WebSocket server that maintains persistent WebSocket connections with devices running the Netflix application. This allows data to be sent to the device from backend services on demand, without the need for continually polling requests from the device. […]
In a previous blog post, we’ve advertised the use of SQL EXISTS rather than COUNT(*) to check for existence of a value in SQL. I.e. to check if in the Sakila database, actors called WAHLBERG have played in any films, instead of: SELECT count(*) FROM actor a JOIN film_actor fa USING (actor_id) WHERE a.last_name = […]