On November 14, 1889, Nellie Bly set off on her race around the world in an attempt to beat the "record" set in Jules Verne's fictional book, "Around the World in 80 Days." People from around the ...

While pure vector databases can be tuned for extreme high performance, pgvector may not be. However, for medium-sized retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) applications (involving around 100K ...

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Steve Fossett became the first person to single-handedly fly around the world by balloon on 2 July 2002. The American millionaire landed in Australia after two weeks in flight over the Southern ...

President Joe Biden—after being introduced by respected leader, Ruth Glenn, President of Survivor Justice Action—during remarks at an event marking the 30th anniversary of the Violence Against ...

As the Israeli military pounded Hezbollah targets, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister said that diplomatic efforts to secure a pause in the fighting had “intensified.” By Euan Ward and ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's most celebrated poets and philosophers, was born to a Boston Brahmin family on May 25, 1803, just 28 years after the clashes in Lexington and Concord. His ...

A cruise ship taking passengers on a 3 ½-year around-the-world voyage has finally sailed from Belfast, after spending four months stuck in the Northern Ireland capital LONDON -- A cruise ship ...

After digging around, I found a 1967 government report ... was built by IBM and was one of the fastest computers in the world when it was first installed in 1954. The NORC’s I/O facilities ...

Kazakhstan appears to be moving towards appointing some form of international consortium to construct its planned nuclear ...

After an epic election defeat in July, opposition lawmakers have presented their party’s dues-paying members with an unexpected choice of two candidates from the right. By Mark Landler and ...