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Donald Trump has extended a doomsday deadline for Iran after high-stakes negotiations spearheaded by JD Vance.

It's often dubbed one of the cleanest countries in the world - so, it's no wonder that homes in South Korea are filled with incredible cleaning tech.

Shelly Kittleson, 49, was released Tuesday after being abducted in Baghdad on March 31. The hostage was released in exchange for six members of an Iran-backed militia.

Visitors in their droves made their way to Butser Hill in Hampshire over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend after interest in the cows 'exploded' online.

I'm A Celebrity viewers have praised Ashley Roberts for admitting having children 'isn't top of the list'. 

Zendaya gave a rare glimpse of her 't' tattoo tribute to Tom Holland at the Euphoria season three premiere in LA on Tuesday - amid ongoing speculation the pair are married.

Cheryl was raised alongside Andrew and their siblings Garry, Gillian and Joe, by mother Joan Callaghan and father Garry Tweedy on a council estate in Newcastle.

BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends raw data back to Earth for later analysis, the satellite performed the computation itself while still in orbit. The system used an NVIDIA Jetson Orin module to run the object detection model moments after the image was taken. Traditionally, Earth observation satellites capture images and transmit large datasets to ground stations where computers process them hours later. Running AI directly on the satellite could reduce that delay dramatically, allowing spacecraft to analyze events like disasters, infrastructure changes, or aircraft activity almost immediately. "This success is a glimpse into the future of what we call Planetary Intelligence at scale," said Kiruthika Devaraj, VP of Avionics & Spacecraft Technology. "By running AI at the edge on the NVIDIA Jetson platform, we can help reduce the time between 'seeing' a change on Earth and a customer 'acting' on it, while simultaneously minimizing downlink latency and cost. This shift toward integrated AI at the edge is a technological leap that can help differentiate solutions like Planet's Global Monitoring Service (GMS), providing valuable insights for our customers and enabling rapid response times when it matters most."

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NASA has released the first set of photos taken by the Artemis II moon mission. The first image was taken from the far side of the moon, and shows Earth dipping beyond the lunar horizon.

The rapper, 48, sparked controversy late last month when it was announced that he would be headlining the three-day event in Finsbury Park despite his history of pro-Nazi outbursts.

President Brad Smith tells an interviewer that Microsoft is reconsidering datacenter design in light of Iran war

Microsoft is reevaluating how it designs and builds datacenters in conflict-prone regions after Iran began targeting Middle Eastern bit barns in retaliation for US military operations.…

Boldface names galore flocked to see honors showered on such designers as Yves Saint Laurent's longtime creative director Anthony Vaccarello.

The father of the "billion dollar mistake" left us last month. His pointer is finally null. Speaking of null handling, Randy says he was "spelunking" through his codebase and found this pair of functions, which handles null.

public String getDataString() { if (dataString == null) { return Constants.NOT_AVAILABLE; } return asUnicode(dataString); }

I assume Constants.NOT_AVAILABLE is an empty string, or something similar. It's reasonable to convert a null into something like that. I don't know where this fits in the overall stack; I'm of the mind that you should retain the null until you absolutely can't anymore; like it or not, a null means something different than an empty string. Or, if we're going that far, we should be talking about using Optional or nullable types.

But that call to asUnicode seems curious. What's happening in there?

private String asUnicode(String rawValue) { if (rawValue != null) { return HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape(rawValue); } else { return rawValue; } }

This function, which is only called from getDataString, checks for a null. Which we know it won't get, but it checks anyway. If it isn't null, we unescape it. If it is null, we return that null.

Well, I suppose that fits my rule of "retaining the null", but like, in the worst way you could do it. It honestly feels like, if the "swap the null for an empty string" happens anywhere, it should happen here. If I ask for the unescaped version of a null string, an empty string is a reasonable return. That makes more sense that doing it in a property getter.

This code isn't a trainwreck, but it makes things confusing. Maybe it's because I've been doing a lot of refactoring lately, but confusing code with unclear boundaries between functions is a raw nerve for me right now, and this particular example is stepping on that nerve.

While we're talking about unclear boundaries, I object to the idea that this class is storing dataString as an HTML escaped string that we unescape any time we want to look at it. It implies that there's some confusion about which representation is the canonical one: unescaped or escaped. We should store the canonical one, which I think is unescaped. We should only escape it at the point where we're sending it into an HTML document (or similar). Convert at the module boundary, not just any time you want to look at a string.

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Oil prices dropped across the board on Tuesday after Donald Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran that would see the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.

Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, radiated elegance as she attended the Reasons For Hope Gala in London, stepping out in a luxurious new gown from Zimmermann.

Fiji Airways flight FJ914 reached airspace above Fiji on Monday but was forced to make a sharp turn towards the Tongan capital of Nuku'alofa where it landed.

Scroll through TikTok and you'll quickly realise there's one hair colour that's got celebs and influencers in a chokehold: ash brown.

Iconic Auctioneers will offer a low-mileage 2022 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS and a characterful 1972 Fiat 500 - which has been converted to electric power.

Jane Coyle (pictured, with the shed), 64, and her husband Anthony, 67, submitted plans to build the property in the village of Edwyn Ralph, Herefordshire, back in 2020.

PC Mark Roberts, 57, went through a red light and hit motorcyclist Ronald Pinkney and his wife Muriel in a marked police car.