I London har delegater från 46 olika länder och elva FN-organisationer undertecknat en deklaration om att tjuvjakt och handel med hotade arter ska stävjas.

Elva personer dödades när det största fängelset i Jemens huvudstad anfölls med bomber, granater och skjutvapen i ett försök att frita fångar.

Beväpnade män har tagit kontroll över en del av en stad och närliggande byar i norra Irak.

diegocg writes "Germany has outlined the details of the new 800km (497mi) high voltage power link that will transport renewable power from the north to the industrial south. It is part of the Energiewende plan to replace nuclear power and most other non-renewable energy sources with renewable sources in the next decades. However, the power link is facing a problem: popular resistance from affected neighborhoods."

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kc123 writes "The latest version of Chrome includes improvements in JavaScript compilation, according to the Chromium blog. Historically, Chrome compiled JavaScript on the main thread, where it could interfere with the performance of the JavaScript application. For large pieces of code this could become a nuisance, and in complex applications like games it could even lead to stuttering and dropped frames. In the latest Chrome Beta they've enabled concurrent compilation, which offloads a large part of the optimizing compilation phase to a background thread. The result is that JavaScript applications remain responsive and performance gets a boost."

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David Smith investigates the claim (which I’ve made) that people who don’t upgrade their OS are, in general, the kind of people who don’t buy apps.

It seems clear that the distribution of people who are purchasing your apps follows closely the overall adoption of users. There doesn’t seem to be anything about their speed of update that impacts their purchasing habits.