Currently our non-Parquet IO depends on GeoPandas or DuckDB. These are great workarounds but they don't leverage the generic pushdown/pruning capability that DataFusion gives us. While we could hook ...

New Zealand kiwifruit grower Zespri is forecasting another record crop year but has selectively narrowed the price guidance for the 2025/26 season. Although the so-called orchard gate return (OGR) ...

Soon to be the official tool for managing Python installations on Windows, the new Python Installation Manager picks up where the ‘py’ launcher left off. Python is a first-class citizen on Microsoft ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - Omaha Girls Rock, an organization that’s been empowering youth through music education since 2011, is joining The Bay. Andrew Norman ,executive director of The Bay, said in a ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI - Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) unveiled its trailblazing 2025-26 season, “East Meets Midwest: Celebrating Asian Brilliance and Artists from Michigan,” at its annual gala last week. The ...

Opera Grand Rapids (OGR) has announced its trailblazing 2025-2026 season during the “A Night with the Opera: Hip Opera” gala, held Thursday evening at GLC Live at 20 Monroe. Themed “East Meets Midwest ...

The widespread adoption of AI is creating a paradigm shift in the software engineering world. Python has quickly become the programming language of choice for AI development due to its usability, ...

The winners of a 10-day hunt for Burmese pythons, which had more than 850 participants from 33 states and Canada collectively removing 195 of the invasive species from south Florida, were announced ...

Police body cameras have been front and center over the past few decades, bringing images from the job to the forefront of the public since the 1990s. The cameras are used for police departments to ...

Golf returns to the Olympics for the third time in the modern era and will head to a prominent venue that is no stranger to golf’s premier stage. Le Golf National, which hosted the 2018 Ryder Cup, ...

The Florida Python Challenge is fast approaching, when hunters can sign up to euthanize as many invasive Burmese pythons as possible in 10 days to help protect the Everglades (and potentially win up ...