With an initial aim of becoming an online bookstore, Jeff Bezos and a handful of angel investors launch Amazon.com, just as e-commerce is about to take off . Twenty-four years later, after expanding from books to the so-called "Everything Store" and growing a business selling cloud services to companies like Netflix and Instagram, Bezos has become the world’s richest man. Amazon.com, meanwhile is racing with Apple to become the world’s first trillion-dollar American company.

"The summer of 2018 was very dry and this caused a lot of forest fires in Sweden. Some of these occurred around my hometown, including this one on an evening in July. The fire department extinguished the fire during the night and the next morning there were around 10 volunteers still working to secure the area and prevent the fire from starting to burn again. The ground was still very hot and there were some small fires visible from where I was. The fires cause a lot of serious damage, but at the same time I love the beauty of them." — Sven Tegelmo, Sweden

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An app on your phone, this estimates your percentage of body fat from simply scanning an uploaded full-length photograph. The maker says the app does this by ‘machine-learning algorithms’.

Homes are inundated with flood waters from the Arkansas River near South 145th West Ave. near Oklahoma 51 on Thursday, May 23, 2019. TOM GILBERT/Tulsa World

Extending engine life and reducing the amount of rebuilds during the season are among several Supercars initiatives designed to cut costs in 2020.

We’ll jump right to the main problem, and the one that will allow me to drive this fine machine through salty Michigan winters without feeling too much guilt: This Jeep has rust. Not a lot, but enough that repairing this XJ to perfection would take some serious time and effort.

JULY 5: Unfortunately, the feeder bands that went to the north were dumping heavy volumes of rain into the northern Flint River. Macon measured 9 inches of rainfall. Ten inches fell in Atlanta, and the same amount was predicted there the following day.

Abstract: The invention relates to implementing a test data tool that generates test data based on production data patterns. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the test data tool comprises: a processor configured to: receive, via the data input, production data from the one or more production environments, the production data comprises personally identifiable information; identify a plurality of attributes from the production data; for each attribute, identify one or more data patterns; generate one or more rules that define the one or more data patterns for each attribute; generate a configuration file based on the one or more rules; apply the configuration file to generate test data in a manner that obscures personally identifiable information existing in the production data; and transmit the test data to a UAT environment.

Mexico’s finance minister, Carlos Urzúa, speaks as President Andrés Manuel López Obrador looks on during a news conference in February. (Henry Romero/Reuters)

[G06F] ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N)

After residents emptied mattresses and other furnishings from a previously flooded Foley home, Mississippi River floodwater rises again in Lincoln County for a scheduled third crest next week on Friday, May 24, 2019. Photo by Robert Cohen, [email protected].