*Warning: this article contains some spoilers for the series – but none for the final episode* Image copyright HBO/Sky Atlantic Female characters in Game of Thrones speak about three times less than male characters in the show, according to new data. Although the hugely popular show ended this week after eight seasons, the debate on […]
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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Dan Bricklin, inventor of the first spreadsheet In 1978, a Harvard Business School student named Dan Bricklin was sitting in a classroom, watching his accounting lecturer filling in rows and columns on the blackboard. Every time the lecturer changed a figure, he had to work down and across the
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Lawmakers clashed Tuesday over the Trump administration’s move to send hundreds of Transportation Security Administration employees to the U.S.-Mexico border, and one airport official warned it could lead to long checkpoint lines this summer. The TSA is asking federal air marshals, airport screeners and others to volunteer to support a buildup of federal agents along
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A fleet of 16 miniature cars have been programmed to communicate with each other to avoid traffic jams. Researchers at Cambridge University set up a track and stopped one of the driverless cars, blocking one of two lanes, to see how they reacted. When the communication system was switched off, a tailback soon appeared in
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Majors matter more than any other golf tournament. They are not the sole measure of greatness. And that might be one reason it took Brooks Koepka winning four majors — as many as Rory McIlroy, one more than Jordan Spieth among his contemporaries — for the 29-year-old Floridian to get the kind of attention his
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Local governments in China “don’t understand the industry,” Mr. Gu said. They are merely using up resources that private companies know how to spend more effectively, he added. China’s role as the world’s leading assembler of electronics, and its vast consumer market for electronics, has convinced some observers that given enough time, the country would
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The hottest pitch in real estate is the opportunity zone, one of 8,700 geographic areas in the United States in need of economic investment. Opportunity zones encompass three enticements that make real estate attractive to professional investors: the promise of change in underserved areas, the chance of an outsize investment return and the opportunity for
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Oregon will use ground-penetrating radar to search for bodies buried on the campus of a now-defunct psychiatric hospital where the movie “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was filmed before a developer builds housing on the land. The facility, which opened in 1883, once had a cemetery, but all the 1,500 bodies buried there should
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A new billboard advertisement hinting that Hilary Mantel is ready to release her next novel has sprung up in London. The long-awaited book, the title of which has previously been announced as The Mirror and the Light, will complete the author’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy. The first two novels in the trilogy – Wolf Hall and
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Image copyright Jamie Oliver Restaurant Group Image caption Mr Oliver shot to fame 20 years ago Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has said he is “devastated” after his restaurant group went into administration, with 1,000 jobs being lost. The group, which includes the Jamie’s Italian chain, Barbecoa and Fifteen, has appointed KPMG as administrators. Twenty two
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