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Facebook has built a tool called Getafix that automatically finds fixes for bugs and offers them to engineers to approve. This allows engineers to work more effectively, and it promotes better overall code quality. We believe Getafix is the first tool of its kind to be deployed to production at Facebook scale, contributing to the …

A tomb that was buried thousands of years ago and revered by ancient Romans as the resting place of their city’s mythical founder Romulus has now been rediscovered beneath the Forum in Rome.

The underground tomb and the temple built around it are thought to date from the sixth century B.C., according to archaeologists.

We are at the dawn of the 2020s, what will the rest of the decade be like?


Future Day is a way of focusing and celebrating the energy that more and more people around the world are directing toward creating a radically better future.

How should Future Day be celebrated? That is for us to decide as the future unfolds!

The world’s species and natural ecosystems are in crisis. When nearly 200 countries gather in ten days’ time to thrash out a major plan to stem the precipitous decline, China is expected to take a prominent role. The high-stakes negotiations will set the stage for a major biodiversity summit in October, which the country will also host — marking the first time the nation will lead global talks on the environment.


A major United Nations summit could see China push for ambitious targets and spotlights the country’s own conservation efforts.

WASHINGTON — Puerto Rico has felt hundreds of aftershocks after the Jan. 7 magnitude 6.4 earthquake. And throughout history, earthquakes are not an unheard-of occurrence on the island. This is because of plate tectonics.

Puerto Rico and the adjacent islands surrounding it are sitting on the convergence between two tectonic plates. The islands are on the edge of the Caribbean Plate, which extends to the south in the Caribbean Sea, while the North American Plate is just north of the island.

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