ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. It is optimized for large streaming reads, but with integrated support for finding required rows quickly.

For years, he and Lisa Kiziuk, his wife and colleague at the WCT, toured the country with their ”Food and Feathers” program that explains how sustainable farming can complement bird conservation. She ...

“Oftentimes the fluorescent areas were bordered by really darkly pigmented feathers, which contrasted against that fluorescence,” Martin said. “A lot of these birds-of-paradise have also ...