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It is not the first time Wikipedia has come up with such donation messages. In the past, Wikipedia has asked donation from its readers to keep the non-profit organization running. In blog, WMF had clarified that the donation helps the organization to pay salaries of all editors and staff.

The fund also helps to keep Wikipedia and its sister sites secure, fast and easily accessible. Latest News. T20 World Cup. Meanwhile, a report published today from the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Future of Work said that "use of algorithmic surveillance, management and monitoring technologies that undertake new advisory functions, as well as traditional ones, has significantly increased during the pandemic.

F designer Don Syme said this week that the new version, 6. There was a telling moment in the. A developer asked: "What is the best way to do optional values in records in F? NET evangelist Scott Hanselman, with commendable honesty, acknowledged that "I know how to say the words but I don't know what they mean," while even Dollard was uncertain how to answer. Autonomy's former chief financial officer has alleged the firm collapsed partly because two financial analysts agreed to badmouth it in the hope of making a profit from its demise.

He accused former JP Morgan analyst Daud Khan and industry colleague Paul Morland, once of analyst firm Peel Hunt, of carrying out "concerted and improper efforts to depress Autonomy's share price for their and their short-selling clients' benefit" and being "vehemently antagonistic towards Autonomy and its management.

If you struggled to get into your Gmail this morning, it wasn't just you. Unhappy users from Europe all the way to South Africa reported a significant outage. The issues kicked off at around 8. Interview New Zealand's Rocket Lab is set to launch another Electron rocket - a precursor to the rocketeer's first attempt at catching a descending booster.

The launch, dubbed "Love at First Insight", is currently scheduled for no earlier than 16 November owing to an "out of family ground sensor reading" when the launch window opened yesterday morning and has the primary objective of popping a pair of Earth-observation satellites into orbit for Black Sky. Also featuring on the launch is Rocket Lab's latest evolution of its recovery technology.

Unlike SpaceX's crowd-pleasing propulsive antics, the first stage of the Rocket Lab Electron will descend by parachute and attempt a controlled splashdown into the ocean, making it the third ocean recovery if all goes well. The eventual plan is for a helicopter to snag the stage as it descends. This time, however, everything will be done except an attempt to catch the rocket.

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Now this is an outage. Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping. We're making F more normal as a language, says its creator Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6. Love for life. Wikimedia Conference — Group photo. How we use your donations. Support from around the globe Donors from around the world support over Wikipedias, represent nearly 30 countries and more than 20 languages.

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