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Aspiring big data software companies find themselves training, advising and building pilot projects for their customers — acting far more as services companies than they hope to be eventually.
Charles C. Johnson, a blogger based in California, may be the ultimate expression of a certain kind of citizen journalism — one far more toxic than we’re accustomed to seeing.
The Gulf of Maine’s waters are warming — faster than almost any ocean waters on earth, scientists say — and fish are voting with their fins for cooler places to live.
Sony’s executives now say they knew that basing a film on the assassination of Kim Jong-un of North Korea had inherent risks.
Founded in 2010 to sell cheap phones online, the company has become the No. 3 producer worldwide behind Apple and Samsung and is looking toward Brazil and India.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 10, 2014, covering December 15, 2014.
Taylor Swift
Pentatonix
Various Artists
One Direction
Sam Smith
2014Donald Metcalf, Australian physiologist and immunologist (born 1929)[†]
Donald Metcalf AC FRS FAA was an Australian medical researcher who spent most of his career at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne. In 1954 he received the Carden Fellowship from the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria; while he officially retired in 1996, he continued working and held his fellowship until his death in December 2014.
2014Fausto Zapata, Mexican journalist, lawyer, and politician, Governor of San Luis Potosí (born 1940)[†]
Fausto Zapata Loredo was a Mexican lawyer, politician, diplomat, journalist and television presenter. A member of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), he briefly served as governor of San Luis Potosí in 1991 before being forced to resign amid post-election fraud accusations. He had previously served in both chambers of Congress and also held a variety of diplomatic positions.
2014Gunman Man Haron Monis takes 18 hostages inside a café in Martin Place for 16 hours in Sydney. Monis and two hostages are killed when police raid the café the following morning.[†]
Man Haron Monis was an Iranian-born refugee and Australian citizen who took hostages in a siege at the Lindt Chocolate Café at Martin Place, Sydney on 15 December 2014, lasting for 17 hours, until the early hours of the following morning. The siege resulted in the death of Monis and two hostages.
In 2014, the world population was approximately 7,381,616,244 people[†]