New York — The New York City Department of Buildings has issued a construction advisory on the dangers of aging brick facades, which could create unsafe conditions that lead to catastrophic events.

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It's difficult to highlight any positives of the recent pandemic. However, if one exists in the business world, it's the virtual infrastructure that was built on the fly to allow companies to make the shift away from traditional brick and mortar operations. If you've been on the fence about a permanent shift in the virtual direction, this is your time to shine. The benefits of going virtual

The new AI-powered Project Market Scanner (PMS) engine helped the developers increase their reach by 65% and the lead-to-impression ratio on its platform by 80%.

Databricks, a San Francisco-based startup most recently valued at $38 billion, is among several tech companies, including Adobe Inc and Intel Corp, racing to use chatbots that can hold human-like conversations to sift through business data like sales transactions or written reports for answers.

Schwan’s Consumer Brands recently launched an authentic Red Baron Brick Oven Pizza in three varieties.

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Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen's book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

Celebrating Women's Fashion: Kristen d'Offay's Brick-and-Mortar Store Opens Its Doors in Historic Downtown Santa Barbara

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In the first part of this episode we discuss a couple of basics about SecondLife (scaling, partitioning, etc). The second part specifically looks at how the dev team tackled a number of interesting problems in the context of executing their own LSL scripting language on top of Mono.

Plus 4 more new releases to watch at home this week on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD!

If you have Spotify's soon-to-be-bricked Car Thing, there are a few ways you can give it a new lease on life. YouTuber Dammit Jeff has showcased modifications to Car Thing that makes the device useful as a desktop music controller, customizable shortcut tool, or a simple digital clock. Ars Technica's Kevin Purdy reports: Spotify had previously posted the code for its uboot and kernel to GitHub, under the very unassuming name "spsgsb" and with no announcement (as discovered by Josh Hendrickson). Jeff has one idea why the streaming giant might not have made much noise about it: "The truth is, this thing isn't really great at running anything." It has half a gigabyte of memory, 4GB of internal storage, and a "really crappy processor" (Amlogic S905D2 SoC) and is mostly good for controlling music. How do you get in? The SoC has a built-in USB "burning mode," allowing for a connected computer, running the right toolkit, to open up root access and overwrite its firmware. Jeff has quite a few issues getting connected (check his video description for some guidance), but it's "drag and drop" once you're in. Jeff runs through a few of the most popular options for a repurposed Car Thing: - DeskThing, which largely makes Spotify desk-friendly, but adds a tiny app store for weather (including Jeff's own WeatherWave), clocks, and alternate music controls - GlanceThing, which keeps the music controls but also provides some Stream-Deck-like app-launching shortcuts for your main computer. - Nocturne, currently invite-only, is a wholly redesigned Spotify interface that restores all its Spotify functionality.

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When you use SAS/ACCESS Interface to PostgreSQL to query a Yellowbrick database, the SAS OBS= option is not generating a limit clause on the query that is passed to the database. Click the

In rural Kentucky, teachers and students are awarded innovation grants to solve a challenge facing their community or classroom.

After completing the teachers training course, a young Zambian goes to Malawi where he serves as a father figure for 15 children.

In rural Kentucky, teachers and students are awarded innovation grants to solve a challenge facing their community or classroom.

To build the interest of students in pre-K through grade 12 in STEM fields, a team of aerospace engineering undergraduates built a fleet of LEGO models of vertical flight vehicles and demonstrate them at outreach events.

Israel's unreasonableness, backed by U.S. opposition to Palestinian statehood, is bound to isolate Israel and undermine American influence in the region.

Online gambling platforms are always open, meaning you can gamble when you feel like it

It's more of a desktop thing now, but it has picked up some new features.

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"It just had this appeal to me because you can create the things you don't have." Meet Ekow Nimako, a Ghanaian-Canadian artist who uses black LEGO bricks to build jaw-dropping sculptures. While some of his masterpieces take nearly one-thousand hours to create, he has the ability to prototype a new design in just one day. We tour his home studios where he began creating his breathtaking art and explore some of his custom builds inspired by Black mythology.Director: Charlie JordanDirector of Photography: Dave SandersEditor: Jordan CaligExpert: Ekow NimakoCreative Producer: Wendi JonassenLine Producer: Joseph BuscemiAssociate Producer: Brandon WhiteProduction Manager: D. Eric MartinezProduction Coordinator: Fernando DavilaCamera Operator: Jerome W. TanSound Mixer: Dave PlankProduction Assistant: Andrew VancePost Production Supervisor: Alexa DeutschPost Production Coordinator: Ian BryantSupervising Editor: Doug LarsenAssistant Editor: Justin Symonds

The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site features a picture of the book’s careworn cover along with two spreads from the […]

Across the world, people are chopping down trees to burn bricks to build their homes. The world’s largest cement manufacturer thinks there’s a better way

The recent High Court ruling brings into focus issues involved in temple renovation, writes S. Prabhu

The writer on why the humble brick scores over the much-cheaper block masonry

The Shyam Rai Temple at Bishnupur in Bengal’s Bankura district is massive in its scale and ornamentation.

Decision makers at Penske Entertainment are beginning to chart the course for a historic summer of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

A Forbes contributor notes that Belkin abruptly announced the end-of-life for its Wemo NetCams, which will discontinued on May 29 2020. But that's just the beginning... Unlike many other end-of-life announcements which simply render products ineligible for support or upgrades, Belkin is literally pulling the plug on its Cloud service, rendering its NetCam range of home security cameras as useless beige bricks... The question of how Belkin are deliberately bricking their products needs to be called out. When the NetCam was released, users had the option to use the Wemo software (which was lousy) or connect to the cameras using ffmpeg with their favourite NVS platform or even with VLC or equivalent. However, in a firmware update a few years back — Belkin disabled this capability. While workarounds do exist, such as the one published by Vladimir Sobolev in 2018, the whole premise of buying a Belkin product is for ease of use and simplicity. Belkin claim to design 'people inspired products'. All customers of Belkin need to look carefully at these words and see how they match up with their deeds? How many other Belkin products might be switched off on a whim? The criticism can be applied to cloud-enabled products as a whole, but in the main — vendors understand that to alienate customers by bricking their possessions is not a viable long term strategy to maintain trust... Forthcoming European legislation forcing technology companies to make their products easier to repair should go some way to address these concerns. The article points out that even Microsoft gave Windows 7 users five years of warnings about its 2020 end-of-life. And it also complains property owners now face two difficult choices: "Either leaving their property with no security system and zero surveillance capability, or breaking the quarantine orders in order to install new equipment."

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In conversation with ETCIO, Subodh Kumar, CTO, Magicbricks, shares how data comprising 75 attributes has helped the company generate 60% more quality leads

Grey got a gift he cannot use, Myke is still outfitting Mega Studio, and they both discuss clarity in projects.

When James Antonas and partner Kirilie Blythman bought their 1940s clinker-brick cottage in Coburg North in 2009, it was with their heads rather than their hearts.

Engineer Henry Liu is honored for inventing a way to transform toxic waste into environmentally friendly bricks used for construction.

Shock Top saves cheeky/ingenious conservation startup Drop-A-Brick from sinking.

If the whispers about Amazon are true, the few independents still left should be afraid, very afraid.

Losing weight and getting in shape doesn't happen overnight. Once you understand the truth about what it really takes to build a better body, you'll never fall prey to fads, gimmicks or scams ever again.

More than $117 billion passed hands from Internet shoppers to Internet vendors in 2004, according to the statistical research firm comScore. That's billion, with a B. Compared to the year before, the figure represents a whopping 24 percent increase in sales. Compared to the early 1990s, when the Web was a questionable commercial venture, today's $117 billion is proof-positive that the Web is the full-fledged money-making machine. It seems to be a big enough pie that any merchant with a Web site can cut out his heaping slice.

Masonry Cosmetics streamlines training process; develops quicker, safer, more cost-effective path to contractor certification

Music Tech Startup's Technology Lets Concert Goers Customize and Personalize Live Music Experiences Via Augmented Audio Reality; Now Offering Rentals at Canadian Dates of Elton John's Tour