Det är osäkert om dödläget i förhandlingarna mellan Malis regering och tuaregrebellerna i landets norra delar kan brytas.

För 18 år sedan rymde en man från rättspsyk i Sundsvall och sedan till Kanada. Där har han enligt egen uppgift i dag ett normalt liv med bostad, sambo och goda sociala relationer. Han får varken mediciner eller behandling för någon psykisk störning, berättar allehanda.se.

StartsWithABang writes You're used to real numbers: that is, numbers that can be expressed as a decimal, even if it's an arbitrarily long, non-repeating decimal. There are also complex numbers, which are numbers that have a real part and also an imaginary part. The imaginary part is just like the real part, but is also multiplied by i, or the square root of -1. It's a simple definition: the Mandelbrot set consists of every possible complex number, n, where the sequence n, n^2 + n, (n^2 + n)^2 + n, etc.—where each new term is the prior term, squared, plus n—does not go to either positive or negative infinity. The scale of zoom visualizations now goes well past the limits of the observable Universe, with no signs of loss of complexity at all.

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StartsWithABang writes You're used to real numbers: that is, numbers that can be expressed as a decimal, even if it's an arbitrarily long, non-repeating decimal. There are also complex numbers, which are numbers that have a real part and also an imaginary part. The imaginary part is just like the real part, but is also multiplied by i, or the square root of -1. It's a simple definition: the Mandelbrot set consists of every possible complex number, n, where the sequence n, n^2 + n, (n^2 + n)^2 + n, etc.—where each new term is the prior term, squared, plus n—does not go to either positive or negative infinity. The scale of zoom visualizations now goes well past the limits of the observable Universe, with no signs of loss of complexity at all.

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Antalet döda i flyktingkatastrofer i Medelhavet i år överstiger siffran vid samma tid förra året – och det värsta är att vänta under sommaren, säger Karolina Lindholm Billing, regionchef vid FN:s flyktingorgan UNHCR.

Det offentliga Sverige upphandlar varor och tjänster för drygt 600 miljarder kronor varje år, men långt ifrån alla sker i enlighet med upphandlingsreglerna. Nu lanseras ett nytt program för att bidra till att utveckla offentliga upphandlingar och stimulera nya lösningar, skriver civilminister Ardalan Shekarabi (S) tillsammans med Lena Micko, ordförande för Sveriges Kommuner och landsting (SKL), och Åke Svensson, vd för Teknikföretagen, i Dagens Industri.

Det är inte bara chanserna att USA får sin första kvinnliga president som har ökat på sistone. Även gräsrotskampanjen för att hedra en kvinna med porträtt på landets sedlar har vind i seglen.

Hoppet att hitta fler överlevande efter nattens förlisning i Medelhavet, då uppåt 700 migranter befars ha drunknat, är ute.

River Tam writes The next version of Chrome, Chrome 43, promises to take out some of the work website owners — such as news publishers — would have to do if they were to enable HTTPS. The feature might be helpful for publishers migrating legacy HTTP web content to HTTPS when that old content can't or is difficult to be modified. The issue crops up when a new HTTPS page includes a resource, like an image, from an HTTP URL. That insecure resource will cause Chrome to flag an 'mixed-content warning' in the form of a yellow triangle over the padlock.

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River Tam writes The next version of Chrome, Chrome 43, promises to take out some of the work website owners — such as news publishers — would have to do if they were to enable HTTPS. The feature might be helpful for publishers migrating legacy HTTP web content to HTTPS when that old content can't or is difficult to be modified. The issue crops up when a new HTTPS page includes a resource, like an image, from an HTTP URL. That insecure resource will cause Chrome to flag an 'mixed-content warning' in the form of a yellow triangle over the padlock.

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Basic HTTP Auth Helper Plus

Basic HTTP Auth Helper Plus

Perl interface to the JSON-GLib library