Wikipedia picture of the day on September 25, 2019: Rib vault in the choir of the parish church Freistadt, Upper Austria https://ift.tt/2mqOAKB

jovial , adj : (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1). To mark the premiere of English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets on 29 September 1918, we are featuring …

Wikipedia picture of the day on September 25, 2019: Rib vault in the choir of the parish church Freistadt, Upper Austria https://ift.tt/2mqOAKB

jovial , adj : (comparable) Cheerful and good-humoured; jolly, merry. (not comparable, astrology, obsolete) Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Jupiter; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1). To mark the premiere of English composer Gustav Holst’s orchestral suite The Planets on 29 September 1918, we are featuring …

The Wikipedia article of the day for September 25, 2019 is SOLRAD 2. SOLRAD 2 was a surveillance and scientific satellite developed by the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. Like the similar SOLRAD 1 satellite (model pictured), it was intended to measure solar X-rays and ultraviolet radiation while conducting a covert surveillance mission, mapping the Soviet Union’s …

Vista Equity Partners has purchased the web content management and digital experience platform (DXP) company Acquia in a deal valued at $1bn. The private equity firm has a penchant for acquiring tech companies that are undervalued and turning them around for a large profit as it did with Marketo which it acquired in 2016 for …

A shock of hair, festooned with chunky highlights, is currently barreling toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The style is odd, and dated: shorter in the back than the front, with long, side-swept bangs framing its swirling storm winds of a face. It looks like reality star Kate Gosselin circa 2007. It was snubbed …

Major layoffs are all but inevitable at high-flying real estate startup WeWork after Adam Neumann succumbed to pressure today to step down as CEO and take the role instead of non-executive chairman of the company he cofounded nine years ago. Two well-placed sources tell us that the scope is likely to be massive, and includes …

“Can machines think?”, asked the famous mathematician, code breaker and computer scientist Alan Turing almost 70 years ago. Today, some experts have no doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will soon be able to develop the kind of general intelligence that humans have. But others argue that machines will never measure up. Although AI can already …