Mina Basaran and her hen party pictured at a Dubai resortA bride-to-be and her hen party were killed when their private jet crashed in an Iranian mountain range on the way home from Dubai. According to reports in Turkish newspapers, the passengers on board were bride-to-be Mina Basaran, 28, and a group of friends who…

Hardware Now in its sixth generation, the X1 Carbon retains everything that’s made the line an ideal productivity machine over the past few years. It starts out at just 2.5 pounds and measures 16 millimeters thick. It’s noticeably lighter than the 2.7-pound XPS 13, so much so that it’s hard to tell that it’s actually…

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump Jr. has a previously undisclosed business relationship with a longtime hunting buddy who helped raise millions of dollars for his father’s 2016 presidential campaign and has had special access to top government officials since the election, records obtained by The Associated Press show. The president’s eldest son and Texas…

I wrote a program to clean up scans of handwritten notes while simultaneously reducing file size. Example input and output: Left: input scan @ 300 DPI, 7.2MB PNG / 790KB JPG. Right: output @ same resolution, 121KB PNG. Disclaimer: the process described here is more or less what the Office Lens app does already, and…

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11 mins ago Speaker John Bercow has allowed time for a discussion in the Commons about his conduct following accusations of bullying. Green Party co-leader Caroline Lucas has been granted an urgent question about the treatment of House of Commons staff, following claims by BBC Two’s Newsnight about alleged bullying of women officials responsible for running…