Image copyright Getty Images Sesame Street has produced nearly 5,000 episodes, won 193 Emmy awards, and now broadcasts in 150 different countries. But these five milestones in its first 50 years say so much about its success. Since first airing on television on 10 November 1969, millions of children have grown up hearing the classic […]
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The 2020 Formula 1 season will feature 20 drivers from 10 teams competing at 22 races Formula 1 has launched a plan to become carbon neutral by 2030. The intention is to wipe out the carbon footprint of activity at race tracks, including road and air transport of staff and equipment to the events. F1
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Kevi Donat’s tour around Paris comes with a twist: it celebrates the unsung black people who helped to shape French history. “People often imagine that their guide will be a white man wearing a striped sweater and a beret,” Kevi says. From WW2 resistance fighters to the writers who spoke out against French colonialism, his
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SAN FRANCISCO — Last fall, Google unveiled a breakthrough artificial intelligence technology called BERT that changed the way scientists build systems that learn how people write and talk. But BERT, which is now being deployed in services like Google’s internet search engine, has a problem: It could be picking up on biases in the way
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Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton is expected to be sidelined for up to a month after suffering a left thigh contusion November 12, 2019, 12:49 AM 1 min read Milwaukee Bucks forward Khris Middleton is expected to be sidelined for up to a month after suffering a left thigh contusion. Middleton was hurt during Sunday
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Former Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts has told Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democratic officials that he is considering making a last-minute entry into the presidential race, the latest evidence of how unsettled the party’s primary is less than three months before the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Patrick told Mr. Biden in a phone conversation
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Image copyright Ewan Fisher A teenage boy nearly died after vaping caused a catastrophic reaction in his lungs, doctors in Nottingham say. Ewan Fisher was connected to an artificial lung to keep him alive after his own lungs failed and he could not breathe. Ewan told BBC News e-cigarettes had “basically ruined me” and urged
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It seems like actor Manny Jacinto is in a pretty good place in his life right now. Jacinto, who plays the loveably dim embodiment of Florida Man on the NBC sitcom “The Good Place,” confirmed during a panel at Vulture Festival 2019 Saturday that he is engaged, Vulture reported. And no, it’s not to a Siri-like
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Image copyright Cynthia Tuck Image caption Cynthia Tuck was married to her husband George for 39 years “I felt devastated, absolutely devastated and so guilty. My life collapsed really”. Cynthia Tuck remembers the moment she realised she had been conned out of her life savings, and those of her late husband, George. She’d become one
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Nearly a million angry customers of India’s Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative bank are panicking as they struggle to access their money. The bank is under investigation for alleged fraud totalling $500m (£390m), with police in India’s financial capital Mumbai arresting its managing director last month. Its customers, who have been protesting for weeks, have been
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