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AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era

As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale....

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Revealed: Mexico’s industrial boomtown is making goods for the US. Residents say they’re ‘breathing poison’

Polluting facilities in Monterrey, which has close ties to the US, are pumping toxic heavy metals into the city’s air and threatening residents’ h...

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Five of the best food books of 2025

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Fiscal headroom is a matter of guesswork | Brief letters

Economic obsession | Two-child benefit divide | Paddington stare | No Place | Word of the yearYour editorial (The Guardian view on OBR v the Treasury:...

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‘A doll to me and a trumptet to Jimmie’: six-year-old girl’s letter to Santa in 1883

Janet’s wishlist, which ran in Leeds Mercury, and letter from Hampshire girl in 1898 unearthed in newspaper archivesThe toys on the Christmas wishli...

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Friends to leave Netflix in UK at the end of the year

The comedy, which is one of the streamer's most popular shows, will leave the platform on 30 December....

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What Experts Are Saying

Ivy Thompson PhD
Ivy Thompson PhD

Visual Artist

5.6

Speak with Visualizations delivers exactly what it promises - expert knowledge on visualization in an accessible format.

Review of Speak with Visualizations

Jasmine Foster PhD
Jasmine Foster PhD

Risk Analyst

4.5

Straight to the point, Lying with Visualizations: Seeing Isn't Believing makes understanding Analytics effortless and engaging.

Review of Lying with Visualizations: Seeing Isn't Believing

Natalie Kim
Natalie Kim

Linguist

4.5

The author of Beginner's Guide to Game Animation Programming clearly knows their stuff when it comes to Game Animation, but the organization of material could be improved.

Review of Beginner's Guide to Game Animation Programming

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."