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Graphical abstract. Credit: Environmental Science & Technology (2022). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.2c03962 As a growing number of communities are forced to confront PFAS contamination in their groundwater, a key hurdle in addressing this harmful group of chemicals lies in unraveling how they move through a region of the environment called the unsaturated zone—a jumble of soil, rock and water sandwiched between the ground's surface…

An introductionPhoto by Annie Spratt on UnsplashAs a long-time SQL user, I’ve often had to run the same code over and over with minor changes in my where statement. In programming languages such as Python, this copy and replacement wouldn’t be necessary because I could create a function to pass in different parameter values to rerun the same code. Today I want to share how you can use BigQuery’s procedural language to set variables and conditional logic to run SQL statements.DECLARE and SETThe DECLARE statement…

In the fast-moving world, the priorities of clients change and so does the ecosystem of data management systems. Data management teams do their best to integrate the components to meet the requirements of the moment, i.e, development and experimentation cycles while not losing focus on the bigger picture, bringing out a viable product into the market. Businesses start by gathering volumes of data and in the end, find it difficult to optimize it to the toolsets available. Commvault is a data management and data security…

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Apple is reportedly working on a project to simplify the ‘Hey Siri’ phrase to just ‘Siri’. At present, Apple users have to say ‘Hey Siri’ to launch the voice assistant on the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and HomePod. But, as per Bloomberg’s…

Apple is working to simplify how users interact with Siri, according to . The company has reportedly spent the past few months training the digital assistant to respond to “Siri” instead of “Hey Siri.” On the surface, that’s a simple change, but one that Gurman says involves a “significant amount of AI training and underlying engineering work.” The reason for that is that a two-word trigger phrase like “Hey Siri” increases the likelihood of the software responding to a request. The change would make it easier to string…

Earlier this year, Samsung promised that it fully supports the new Matter (earlier CHIP) smart home standard and will bring Matter compatibility to SmartThings soon. During SDC 2022 last week, the South Korean firm said it would launch Matter support before the end of this year. Today, Samsung announced that support for Matter is now live on SmartThings. The latest version of the SmartThings app on Android supports Matter. Through this app, users can control Matter-compatible smart home devices. Second and…

The SuperSpeed USB branding is no more thanks to a new set of guidelines currently being rolled out by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), the body that manages and maintains the USB standard. It’s part of a rebranding initiative that the organization kicked off last year with the introduction of a new series of packaging, port, and cable logos. But with its latest set of branding and logo guidelines it’s going even further, simplifying its legacy branding and signaling the end of the decade-old SuperSpeed branding. If…

Understanding the anatomy of a pipelinePhoto by JJ Ying on UnsplashTLDRWhat makes up an Azure Synapse PipelineMake Azure Synapse Pipeline process easier by creating your datasets ahead of timeHere is a video on how to create Azure Synapse DatasetsLeveraging templates to create pipelinesIn my previous article, I mentioned Pipelines as one of the Top features in Azure Synapse. Now lets dive a bit more into what they are and how to use it.Pipelines in Azure Synapse are the same as Azure Data Factory pipelines. It’s just been…

Microsoft could be preparing to name its next big OS update as the “Windows 11 2022 Update.” References to this naming have appeared in near-final versions of the next big Windows 11 release, currently named 22H2. Twitter user XenoPanther spotted the Windows 11 2022 Update naming in the Get Started app that appears when you setup a new PC. The naming could simply be a placeholder, or it could indicate Microsoft is finally simplifying its often confusing update names for Windows. We’ve seen a variety of names over the…