With the touch of the retweet button, Donald Trump — who has some 17.5 million followers — can program the news cycle. He can amplify formerly unknown accounts, signal what voices he's listening to, and tacitly endorse individuals and ideas, no matter how controversial: Trump, more than any politician or powerful figure with access to a smartphone, understands and uses the now-cliche “retweets are not endorsements” maxim to his advantage.

To better understand which individuals and institutions the President-elect relies on as social media surrogates, BuzzFeed News compiled a complete list of users Trump has retweeted since he launched his presidential campaign.

We reviewed 26,377 of Trump’s 34,152 tweets, which we received through the Twitter API and developer Brendan Brown, who has archived Trump’s tweets beyond what is accessible via the API (a stream of data that includes information like tweet text, time, and date). We filtered that data down to the 2,760 hyperlinks tweeted by Trump’s personal Twitter account since he announced his candidacy in June 2015 up until December 15 of this year.

By programmatically expanding the links we were able to narrow them down to the links he tweeted from Twitter (retweets show up as links from twitter.com when downloaded as data), filtered out the ones that were media tweets and were left with all the manual, regular and quote tweets Trump had sent through his account. Fourteen of the accounts that Trump has retweeted are no longer active. Among those fourteen, five accounts — White GenocideTM, babo_siren, Campaign_Trump, patrioticpepe, and TMoody — were suspended (Twitter suspends accounts when users violate its rules, most commonly if the account spams people, may have been hacked, or is engaging in abusive behavior).

Analysis of the accounts Trump has retweeted reveals several distinct patterns:

Trump appears willing to retweet almost anyone. Unlike most mainstream politicians, who carefully select the accounts they&039;ll amplify, Trump is comfortable retweeting a truly diverse array of accounts. Just last month, the President-elect retweeted a 16 year-old from California as evidence to support a Twitter feud with CNN. He does not discriminate based on number of followers (he retweeted an account with just 2 followers), number of tweets (he retweeted the first tweet from a woman who, to date, has only tweeted five times), or the contents of someone&039;s account bio (he retweeted one user whose bio at the time was: “Mexico, get ready to receive your finest citizens back! Rapists, Thieves & Perverts”).

But he is most likely to boost the signal from his inner circle and friendly members of the press. The accounts he retweets the most were those of campaign advisors and some chosen members of the press, including his social media lead, Dan Scavino (21 RTs); his son, Eric Trump (5); Fox News&039; Greta Van Susteren (4); MSNBC host Joe Scarborough (4); former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (3); Lifezette editor and conservative pundit Laura Ingraham (3); and Bloomberg Politics&039; Mark Halperin (2).

The President-elect, despite his repeated claims of a deeply biased mainstream media, retweets a high number of legacy media outlets. Among his most tweeted news accounts: Fox News (7 RTs), Fox And Friends (6), ABC (3), CNN (3), and Morning Joe (2). In nearly every instance, the retweeted accounts shared news items or memes about polls that favored Trump (many from the primaries), or negative articles about Hillary Clinton — many of them aggregations of WikiLeaks emails. Trump also appears to be eager to promote positive news about him from pop culture and entertainment accounts, as evidenced by his retweeting Saturday Night Live&039;s account three times.

On occasion, Trump will retweet a user from the other side of the aisle. This tends to happen under two circumstances:

#1) When an account says something positive about him (in one instance, Trump retweeted former Obama Senior Advisor Dan Pfeiffer, who suggested Trump understood the internet better than most democrats):

2.) To attempt to attack his opponents — as he did here last June with Hillary Clinton:

He has retweeted accounts with clear ties to the alt-right on numerous occasions. Trump recently told the New York Times he disavowed the movement and suggested he didn&039;t “want to energize the group.” However, throughout the 2016 campaign, Trump retweeted three separate users with the words “alt-right” in their bios. He retweeted “WhiteGenocideTM,” and four with “#nationalist” in their bios. One account that the President-elect retweeted (a bot, it turns out) had the phrase “#GoebbelsMindset” in the bio — a reference to Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister in Hitler&039;s Germany

Other items of note include:

- 151 of the 294 individual accounts Trump retweeted during the campaign mention the word “Trump” in the bio or account display name.

- 22 accounts have the Make America Great Again hashtag, #MAGA, in theirs.

-14 accounts have the word “deplorable” in the bio or account display name.

- 9 accounts have the word “veteran” in the bio or account display name.

- 2 accounts have a frog emoji in the bio or account display name, presumably a reference to Pepe.

But there&039;s no better way to get a peek into Trump&039;s Twitter mindset than to explore the accounts he&039;s retweeted for yourself. Below, we&039;ve included every account he&039;s retweeted, in order of the number of times Trump has RT&039;d the account (Of note: the bios and follower counts are current as of when BuzzFeed News scraped the data on December 7th, 2016, and may not necessarily reflect the bio or follower accounts on the day Trump retweeted them). There&039;s also a full graphic at the end of the list.

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ACCOUNT DISPLAY NAME (FOLLOWERS): ACCOUNT BIO.

21 Retweets:

Dan Scavino Jr (241,484 followers): June 2015 – Current: Director of Social Media & Senior Advisor to President-elect Donald J. Trump #Transition2017 • #TrumpTrain Conductor

18 Retweets:

Official Team Trump (372,885 followers): Welcome To The Official #TeamTrump Account. Together, We WILL #MakeAmericaGreatAgain&033; #AmericaFirst

7 Retweets:

Fox News (12,068,826 followers): America’s Strongest Primetime Lineup Anywhere&033; Follow America&039;s 1 cable news network, delivering you breaking news, insightful analysis, and must-see videos.

6 Retweets:

FOX & Friends (700,152 followers): America&039;s 1 cable morning news show

5 Retweets:

Eric Trump (725,051 followers): EVP of Development & Acquisitions, The Trump Organization. Founder of EricTrumpFDN benefiting StJude Children&039;s Research Hospital. Husband to LaraLeaTrump

4 Retweets:

Joe Scarborough (653,550 followers): We can love completely without complete understanding.

Greta Van Susteren (1,109,570 followers): Retweets are just retweets; RT does not mean I agree or disagree….I am merely retweeting;check out video reports https://t.co/BpGqSgCJU9

3 Retweets:

GENE (7,535 followers): blocked by rosie followed by marcuslemonis boygeorge & scottBaio Legal Italian Immigrant. Proud US Citizen,World Traveler With 25 Years of Business Dealings

Newt Gingrich (1,784,072 followers): Husband, father, grandfather, citizen, small businessman, author, former Speaker of the House.

Laura Ingraham (1,118,943): Mom, Editor-in-Chief of LifeZette. Host, The Laura Ingraham Show, 9 to Noon ET. Listen live, join Laura365 to listen 24/7. Fox News. https://t.co/Wu93dy29HT

ABC News (8,248,722 followers): See the whole picture with ABC News. Join us on Facebook: https://t.co/ewMNZ54axm

Saturday Night Live (1,749,560): The official Twitter handle for Saturday Night Live. Saturdays at 11:30/10:30c&033; #SNL

GOP (1,056,143 followers): Updates from the Republican National Committee #LeadRight2016

CNN (30,043,735 followers): It’s our job to #GoThere and tell the most difficult stories. Come with us&033;

2 Retweets:

Trump 4 Women (14,198 followers): SEE TheTRUMPetts 1 OFFICIAL TRUMP TRAIN Vid TeamTRUMP HIT SONGWRITERS =USMC / LEO VETS

Don Vito (23,804 followers): American Patriot MakeAmericaGreatAgain AmericaFirst

TheAmericanLifeStyle (3,616 followers): Our American journey Start Now. •blest• TeamTrump #TrumpPence16 MAGA DonaldJTrumpJr IvankaTrump EricTrump TiffanyATrump

Deplorable Vlad (8,582 followers): Waterboarding&039;s too good for them. I&039;m staking my vote on TRUMP&033;

Diamond and Silk® (197,218 followers): #STUMP4TRUMPBABY #CHOOCHOOBABY #DITCHANDSWITCHNOW #STUMP4TRUMPGIRLS #TheUnitedStatesNotTheDividedStates

Trump Phenomenon (2,863 followers): Trump Landslide 2016

Willie Robertson (2,441,160 followers): President of Duck and Buck Commander. Personality on both, Duck Dynasty and Buck Commander Protected by Under Armour.

Morning Joe (280,073 followers): Live tweet during the show&033; Links to must-read op-eds and other features. Feed managed by MJ staff. Retweets not necessarily endorsements.

Gravis Marketing (2,823 followers): Gravis Marketing is a communications company, specializing in public opinion polls, public relations, political strategy, and research.

Roni Seale (6,210 followers): But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Matthew 19:26 (KJV)

Piers Morgan (5,292,866 followers): &039;&039;One day you&039;re the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster.&039;

Mark Halperin (253,218 followers): Managing editor, Bloomberg Politics; host, With All Due Respect; correspondent/EP, SHO_TheCircus; co-author, Game Change & Double Down

Safety (3,215,464 followers): Helping you stay safe on Twitter.

#NRA (4,13,722 followers): National Rifle Association of America NRA

Emily Miller (58,635 followers): Senior Political Correspondent OANN. Armed. Wannabe Surfer. Author of Emily Gets Her Gun. https://t.co/kuOGeQfYgc

Ivanka Trump (2,498,905 followers): Wife, mother, entrepreneur. EVP, Trump Org. Founder, https://t.co/qWTVy424t8. Author, Women Who Work: Rewriting the Rules for Success (out in March)

Joseph Monaco (2,567 followers): I HATE racists&033; Proud to be followed by Bill Mitchell Mitchellvii I&039;m strongly supporting Mr. Trump for President&033; TrumpPence16 #NYPD #FDNY TrumpTrain MAGA

Tom Winter (12,664 followers): NBC News Investigations reporter based in NYC focusing on Police, Courts, Corruption, Financial Fraud, and Homeland Security stories across the Eastern U.S.

Katrina Pierson (242,737 followers): Senior Advisor Transition2017 & Former realDonaldTrump Natl Campaign Spokeswoman MakeAmericaGreatAgain Transition2017 MAGA

ABC News Politics (306,398 followers): Following ABC News&039; political team with tweets by: aabramson evanmcmurry and nickirossoll

Mark Cuban (6,040,253 followers): #DallasStrong

1 Retweet:

Richard Hernandez (979 followers): Formerly NVGOP. Conservative. Originalist. Prior intern at Kramerica Industries. Tweets are my own. Temeculan.

Trump2016Media (3,528 followers): My #Trump2016 Website is Updated Daily: 1000+ Interviews & Rallys, Articles, News, Media realDonaldTrump TrumpTrain MakeAmericaGreatAgain

Electra Goldwell (284 followers): I want God to make America Great again&033;

Amy Colley Tyson (403 followers): Follower of Christ, Wife, Mother, Family Nurse Practitioner, Former Miss Tennessee USA 2005, Supporter of H. Res. 752 and Animal Hope and Wellness Foundation

Donald Trump Florida (5,231 followers): Donald J. Trump for President (Florida – Official)

MariaRandisiErnandez (989 followers): Special Education Teacher &(Child Advocate).Interests:ELVIS, Hollywood,Music, Politics,Travel, Working Out,#TrumpStrong MAGATrumpTrain
*NO LISTS or B Blocked

RealBill (47 followers): [No Bio Listed]

Politics Today (54,257 followers): || CONSERVATIVE NEWS NETWORK|| News/Politics/Opinion – Reporter/Pundit #PoliticsToday Articles/Commentary Facebook: https://t.co/7wFggE8CL2 #Fact

Montana4Trump (1,452 followers): God Bless America. Conservative Catholic mother-daughter team Tweeted by: realDonaldTrump, mercedesschlapp, MattSchlapp, ktmcfarland.

USA For Trump 2016 (80,568 followers): Official USA for Trump 2016 Follow our new President Trump News Page TrumpsNewsDaily for great Trump news articles about his presidency&033;

Political Polls (46,266 followers): We are a non-partisan group dedicated to keep you informed with recent political polls from trusted polling companies and predictions from reputable pundits.

Antonio Valencia (18 followers): [No Bio Listed]

Karen Posey (15 followers): [No Bio Listed]

JohnnyBoy (2 followers): [No Bio Listed]

Corey R. Lewandowski (175,221 followers): CNN Political Commentator and former Campaign Manager for Donald J. Trump for President. MakeAmericaGreatAgain Trump2016

Eustace Bagge (291 followers): As seen on Fortune, Time, CSPAN. Aspiring Frogtwitterati.

Citizen Dale (19024 followers): Ind Engineer & business owner. Captain-Trumptbird Calling Team We&039;ve made over 80,000 calls for Donald J Trump&033; Producer of the Monster Vote video for Trump&033;

Deplorable C Lewis (1,223 followers): I VOTED for DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT If you support DONALD SPREAD THE TRUMP MESSAGE. #Trump45 #POTUS45 #DrainTheSwamp

Deplorable MP95B (15,705 followers): US Army MP Veteran (No Combat) firm believer in US Constitution & 2A. NRA Lifetime Member. Strong Trump supporter. MakeAmericaGreatAgain Trump2016 NRA #FL

RSBN TV (38,820 followers): Right Side Broadcasting Network. Following realdonaldtrump wherever he goes. 1 source for live political event coverage.

DiCristo Trump Won (4,833 followers): Love For God & Country. Make America Great Again&033; American Revolution Part Deus&033; TRUMP&033; Nov8 win gave us fighting chance&033; we have to beat Elites&033; MAGA

Polling Hub (44 followers): Polling averages for the 2016 U.S. presidential primaries. Accurate and up to date, we&039;re the most detailed poll aggregator tracking the 2016 presidential race.

Deplorable-Sweetie (22,432 followers): #Trumpette Put Americans first&033; Trump2016 ˚(*❛‿&x275B;)/&x2DA; MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN&033; I will fight for MY PEOPLE. Nationalist No rapefugees or illegals&033; TrumpStrong

Italians For Trump (57,540 followers): We are ITALIAN-AMERICANS who proudly support realDonaldTrump our President-elect of the USA&033; #Italians4Trump DrainTheSwamp MAGA #PEOTUS #IoVotoNo

NEPA for TRUMP (26,889 followers): Official realDonaldTrump Northeastern Pennsylvania #TeamTrumpPA Trump2016 MakeAmericaGreatAgain TeamTrump AmericaFirst #ImWithYou TrumpTrain TrumpPence16

TrumpCoastOfSC (8,678 followers): Retweets & quoted tweets do not equal endorsement or agreement. Follow me also at https://t.co/bkXkkAj4cU

Deplorable Distler (1,247 followers): Donald J Trump is Americas last chance. LET FREEDOM RING&033;&033;

Bryan Ranzetta (260 followers): when kids look at me I say this is because I didn&039;t eat my vegetables

Elsa Aldeguer (1752 followers): Proud Latina Trump supporter from Los Angeles California God bless America and our New President Donald J Trump

Valdosta Monkey (116 followers): Wild monkey roaming the City of Valdosta. Always down for Netflix and peel. Lets Make America Great Again.

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The 16 Celebrity GIFs People Used To Express Themselves In 2016

As per your keyboard.

GIFs aren't just contained in Tumblr posts anymore. Thanks to GIF keyboards that you can download right onto your phone, you don&039;t have to tell someone you want to #party — you can show them with a RuPaul GIF.

That can lead to some fun insights. Tenor, the company that makes the GIF keyboard for some of the world’s most popular messaging apps — iMessage, Facebook Messenger, Kik, Twitter, Google Gboard, and the Android’s Touchpal and Kika keyboards — has compiled data on how people used celebrity GIFs to express themselves in 2016.

According to the company, people search for GIFs on their keyboards 200,000,000 million times every day. Half of the company&039;s user base, according to CEO David McIntosh, is in North America, around a quarter is in Europe, and the remainder can be found in Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia.

Most GIFs in Tenor&039;s database use emotions or emotional actions as a primary tag — “sad,” “#smile,” “ewww” — so using a celebrity GIF usually has a tag that indicates the tone. You can, for instance, search “Steph Curry nervous” for a GIF of the basketball player biting his nails.

McIntosh told BuzzFeed News, “The world is voting with what they search for and share on how the world perceives these [celebrities].”

Here are the celebrities people turned to most in 2016 to express their emotions when words failed and only a GIF would do:

Kobe Bryant: Smile

This GIF is also tagged with “really,” “deal with it,” and “forreal.”

Tenor / Via tenor.co

LeBron James: #Eww

Gross.

Tenor / Via tenor.co

RuPaul: Party

San Diego searches for this tag more than any other city every night of the week, according to Tenor.

Tenor / Via tenor.co

View Entire List ›

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Apple Is Talking To The Indian Government About Manufacturing Locally: Report

Uncredited / AP

Apple is in talks with the Indian government to manufacture products in the country. The company is asking the Indian government for financial incentives to make its products in India, two senior government officials told the The Wall Street Journal.

The report corroborates what the Press Trust of India, a leading news wire service, published last month: that Apple had written a letter to the federal government in India outlining its plans to seek financial incentives as it strives to gain marketshare in a country where 97 percent of all smartphones run Android.

Apple did not respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment.

Apple has been negotiating with the Indian government to open Apple Stores in the country for years but has been unable to do so because of the country&039;s stringent regulations on foreign direct investment.

In June, the government relaxed some of these restrictions and allowed single-brand retailers like Apple to open stores in the country — provided that they purchased at least 30 percent of their raw materials from Indian vendors after the first three years.

Making its devices in India would help Apple overcome the local-sourcing requirement, making it possible to set up a retail presence in the country. But analysts say that the move would also help reduce the retail price of iPhones in the country — India is currently the most expensive country to buy an iPhone in.

“We estimate iPhone prices in the country to drop 12% to 13% if Apple makes its devices in India,” Tarun Pathak, senior analyst at market research agency Counterpoint, told BuzzFeed News.

India&039;s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has been trying to ramp up technology manufacturing in the country through a high-profile initiative called “Make In India”. Other smartphone makers such as Samsung, Xiaomi, and OnePlus, already assemble their phones in India to keep prices down.

Quelle: <a href="Apple Is Talking To The Indian Government About Manufacturing Locally: Report“>BuzzFeed

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Should Trump Protect Manufacturing Jobs From Automation? We Asked His Supporters

U.S. President-Elect Donald Trump speaks at an event at Carrier HVAC plant in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Chris Bergin / Reuters

At a rally last week in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, WI, President-Elect Donald Trump promised that his administration will focus on “three words: jobs, jobs jobs.” Two of the focal points of his post-election campaign have been keeping US factory jobs, like at the Carrier furnace factory in Indiana, from moving to Mexico, as well as prioritizing American workers over foreign ones.

In Milwaukee county, where factories employ almost 16% of the workforce, these kinds of promises are particularly popular with Trump’s supporters. But although Trump succeeded in convincing Carrier to keep its plant in the US with $7 million in tax breaks, the factory’s parent company has said it will invest $16 million into making the factory competitive through automation, which will ultimately cut human jobs.

For the most part, Trump supporters at the rally didn’t seem to mind. They’ve known the automation of factory jobs was coming whether they liked it or not, they told BuzzFeed News. For some, that means that the president-elect has no obligation keep factory jobs safe from the machines that would streamline them out of existence.

“I don't see any negative to innovation in automation. We&039;re ready to get moving with the times,” said Jodi Perkins, a supporter living in Milwaukee. “He doesn’t need to protect those frontline jobs. We’ve got to get the boot of government off the neck of business.”

Jodi Perkins, right, at Trump&039;s Wisconsin Thank You rally

Blake Montgomery

Mel Geschke, a forklift operator with Quad/Graphics who attended the Milwaukee rally, said automation threatens his job daily. Automated guided vehicles can do the work of forklift operators, though Geschke believes they do not work as well as humans in fast-paced situations.

Yet he feels ambivalent about whether Trump should protect his job. He said, “He&039;ll do what he can to protect my job from automation, but in some cases you&039;ve got to go with the flow.”

American manufacturing, by many measures, is succeeding even as the president-elect reiterates that America “is losing,” as he did at the Wisconsin rally. Mark Miro, a senior fellow at the Brookings research institute, writes in the MIT Technology Review that American manufacturing is now producing 254% of what it did in 1980 while employing just 66% of the workforce of that same year.

Reverting manufacturing processes from machines to people would likely be bad for the bottom line of many businesses. The Boston Consulting Group found in 2015 that it costs only $8 per hour for a robot to do the same job — spot welding to produce cars — that a human could do for $25 per hour. Trump’s own labor secretary pick Andy Puzder has spoken publicly about preferring robots to human workers.

Several supporters at the rally offered the consolation that workers who lost their jobs to automation could become repairmen or technicians in the same factories.

Tim Kempen summed up a common feeling at the rally: “If we don&039;t stay with new tech, we&039;ll be less productive and fall behind other countries. It&039;s sad that a machine may take jobs, but at least those people could go out and get jobs repairing the machines.”

But to Michael Gallant, head of communications at n-Join, a company that uses artificial intelligence to monitor manufacturing machines for deficiencies, the comparison of frontline factory jobs to more specialized occupations does not hold up. “That’s not an apples to apples analogy. Becoming a technician or an engineer requires a great deal training, whereas frontline manufacturing does not.”

And jobs for those without that training are fast disappearing. A recent Georgetown study found that of the 11.6 million jobs added after the economic crisis of 2008, workers with some degree of higher education took 11.5 million of them.

Workers with a high school education lost 5.6 million jobs in the recession, the study said, and regained less than 1% of them because many of the jobs for high school graduates like manufacturing and clerical work have been automated.

Tomas Jimenez, a sociologist of immigration at Stanford University, told BuzzFeed News Trump’s supporters’ ambivalence towards automation but enthusiastic support for the Carrier deal and his anti-illegal immigration agenda isn’t entirely surprising. “It’s easier to blame people than it is to blame things. It’s possible that among supporters there is a sentiment that machines have no agency, but people — Mexico and its emigrants — do.”

“Our responsibility is more to look for companies that manufacture their wares in the US,” said Jodi Perkins at the rally. “It’s more important to keep jobs in the US than to protect them from automation.”

Trump, for his part, hasn’t said much about the impact automation may have on his plans for the American economy. But in a wide-ranging interview with the New York Times, the president-elect said the US would build more factories under his administration because “we don’t make anything.” He did, however, acknowledge that “robotics is becoming very big.” His solution? “We’ll build the robots, too.”

Quelle: <a href="Should Trump Protect Manufacturing Jobs From Automation? We Asked His Supporters“>BuzzFeed

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Goat Simulator Will Change Your Life

This morning I opened up the iOS App Store and was astounded to find a thing called “Goat Simulator” at No. 4.

U serious? Goat Simulator?

So, I downloaded the game. And at first, it seemed very, very dumb. I was just a goat walking around in a yard. That was it!

But then, something magical happened. I found a “jump” button. Immediately upon discovering this, my goat leapt out of the yard and was free&033; Peace, other goats. Catch you never.

Freedom can be intoxicating. My goat immediately started making bad decisions, and showed a blatant disregard for traffic rules.

Then my goat found a protest. I'm all for democracy, but this game has a head-butt button, and I wasn&039;t going to spend all day staring at it.

The signs say “No pointy food.”

Then it was time to rough up the neighbors with the loud music.

Hope that sends a message. You fucked with the wrong goat.

My goat then dragged one of the neighbors around with its tongue for good measure.

Even though my goat was largely on a terrorizing rampage, it did do some productive stuff.

Like slide down this water slide and catapult itself into the bushes.

But breaking stuff was more fun. So my goat concentrated on that.

Into the drink you go, sir.

Sorry, can I help you with something?

Yeah, didn&039;t think so.

Things change fast in goat world.

Soon enough, my goat was wearing a jet pack and jumping on a trampoline.

Some may view my goat as a villain, and they may be right. But…

…remember, this goat world is a simulation. And those aren&039;t real people getting hurt. Maybe the goat is all of us, and those people are the kinds who would like to keep us down. The goat is hope, the goat is courage, the goat is triumph.

When life gives you hurdles, jump right over them.

Don&039;t try this at home.

Quelle: <a href="Goat Simulator Will Change Your Life“>BuzzFeed

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Several New Azure Services now available in UK

We’re pleased to announce the following services which are now available in the UK!

SQL Server Stretch Database now available in UK: SQL Server Stretch Database migrates your cold data transparently and securely to the Microsoft Azure cloud. SQL Server Stretch Database provides cost-effective availability for data you do not use regularly, doesn't require changes to your queries or applications, and keeps your data secure even during migration. Stretch Database targets transactional databases with large amounts of infrequently used data, which are typically stored in a small number of tables.
Learn more about SQL Server Stretch Database

Azure Functions now available in UK: Azure Functions is a solution for easily running small pieces of code ("functions") in the cloud. You can write the code you need for the problem at hand, without worrying about a whole application of the infrastructure to run it. You can also develop in the language of your choice, such as C#, F#, Node.js, Python, or PHP.
Learn more about Azure Functions

Power BI now available in UK: Power BI is a cloud-based business analytics service that enables anyone to connect to, visualize, and analyze data with greater speed, efficiency, and understanding. It connects users to a broad range of live data through easy-to-use dashboards, provides interactive reports, and delivers compelling visualizations that bring data to life.
Learn more about Power BI

Power BI Embedded now availble in UK: Power BI Embedded is an Azure service that enables application developers to embed stunning, fully interactive reports and visualizations in customer-facing apps without the time and expense of having to build custom controls from the ground up.
Learn more about Power BI Embedded

Azure DocumentDB now available in UK: Azure DocumentDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service built for fast and predictable performance, high availability, elastic scaling, global distribution, and ease of development. As a schema-free NoSQL database, DocumentDB provides rich and familiar SQL query capabilities with consistent low latencies on JSON data
Learn more about DocumentDB

Azure DevTest Labs now available in UK: Azure Devtest Labs is a service that helps developers and testers quickly create environments in Azure while minimizing waste and controlling cost. The goal for this service is to solve the problems that IT and development teams have been facing: delays in getting a working environment, time-consuming environment configuration, production fidelity issues, and high maintenance costs.
Since the launch, DevTest Labs has been helping our customers to quickly get “ready to test” with a worry-free self-service environment. The reusable templates in the DevTest Labs can be used everywhere once created. The public APIs, PowerShell cmdlets and VSTS extensions make it super easy to integrate your Dev/Test environments from labs to your release pipeline. In addition to the Dev/Test scenario, Azure DevTest Labs can also be used in other scenarios like training and hackathon. For more information about its value propositions, please check out our GA announcement blog post. If you are interested in how DevTest Labs can help for training, check out this article to use Azure DevTest Labs for training.
Learn more about Azure Devtest Labs
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Enhanced loading, monitoring, and troubleshooting experience for Azure SQL Data Warehouse

We are excited to share that Azure SQL Data Warehouse has introduced updates to the Azure portal and SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to provide a seamless experience when loading, monitoring, and developing your SQL Data Warehouse. The updates include integrated support for loading from 20+ data stores on premise and in the cloud, a simple process to troubleshoot common issues, and highly requested functionality within SSMS.

SQL Data Warehouse is your go-to SQL based view across data, offering a fast, fully managed, petabyte-scale cloud solution. It is highly elastic, enabling you to provision and scale up to 60 times larger in seconds. You can scale compute and storage independently, allowing you to range from burst to archival scenarios, and pay based off what you're using instead of being locked into a confined bundle.

Azure Portal

Quick Load

You can now quickly integrate your SQL Data Warehouse with Azure Data Factory (ADF) with the new task panel which consists of common commands to execute against your data warehouse.

Azure Data Factory is a fully managed cloud-based data integration service which can be used to populate a SQL Data Warehouse with data from your existing system. It saves you valuable time enabling you to focus on evaluating and building solutions and deriving faster insights. Here are the key benefits of loading data using Azure Data Factory with SQL Data Warehouse:

Rich data store support: built-in support for 20+ data stores on-premises and in the cloud.
Easy to set up: intuitive wizard with no scripting required.
Secure and compliant: data is transferred over HTTPS or ExpressRoute and the global service presence ensures your data never leaves the geographical boundary.
Unparalleled performance by using PolyBase: using PolyBase is the most efficient way to move data into Azure SQL Data Warehouse. To load from Azure Blob Storage, ADF uses PolyBase directly. To load from data stores other than Azure Blob Storage, ADF uses the staging blob feature to convert your source data into PolyBase compatible format, and then use PolyBase to load into SQL DW.

Troubleshooting

You can simply troubleshoot issues related to your SQL Data Warehouse with the new version of the troubleshoot blade. This provides instructions on how to self diagnose your SQL Data Warehouse for common issues.

Monitoring

In the query drill-down blade, you can now conveniently view the number of concurrency slots that your queries are consuming along with its resource class. This enables you to manage your workload.

SQL Server Management Studio

We have addressed issues across SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) allowing you to:

Execute the Generate Scripts wizard for database users and user defined functions
View your logical server name within the table properties of your database
Drop your database simply through the Object Explorer
Leverage templates for stored procedures and scalar-valued functions

Learn More

Create a data warehouse today or check out the many resources for learning more about SQL Data Warehouse, including:

What is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
SQL Data Warehouse best practices
Video library
MSDN forum
CAT team blogs
Stack Overflow forum

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Kobe Bryant: Smile

LeBron James: #Eww

RuPaul: Party

This morning I opened up the iOS App Store and was astounded to find a thing called “Goat Simulator” at No. 4.

So, I downloaded the game. And at first, it seemed very, very dumb. I was just a goat walking around in a yard. That was it&#033;

But then, something magical happened. I found a “jump” button. Immediately upon discovering this, my goat leapt out of the yard and was free&033; Peace, other goats. Catch you never.

Freedom can be intoxicating. My goat immediately started making bad decisions, and showed a blatant disregard for traffic rules.

Then my goat found a protest. I&#039;m all for democracy, but this game has a head-butt button, and I wasn&039;t going to spend all day staring at it.

Then it was time to rough up the neighbors with the loud music.

My goat then dragged one of the neighbors around with its tongue for good measure.

Even though my goat was largely on a terrorizing rampage, it did do some productive stuff.

But breaking stuff was more fun. So my goat concentrated on that.

Sorry, can I help you with something?

Things change fast in goat world.

Some may view my goat as a villain, and they may be right. But…

When life gives you hurdles, jump right over them.

So, I downloaded the game. And at first, it seemed very, very dumb. I was just a goat walking around in a yard. That was it!

Then my goat found a protest. I'm all for democracy, but this game has a head-butt button, and I wasn&039;t going to spend all day staring at it.