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Xi Jinping

China puts focus on development agenda amid ‘new challenges and conflicts’

State media releases full text of five-year development proposal and report delivered by Xi Jinping at plenary meeting last week Both stress that Beijing must keep a clear mind as the world faces ‘most profound changes in a century’ Published: 11:30pm, 3 Nov, 2020 Updated: 11:35pm, 3 Nov, 2020 Read…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Fortnite

Fortnite leak suggests the Rift-To-Go and Bush will return

Fortnite’s v14.50 patch is here, and on top of the return of Jetpacks and some next-gen preparations, we’ve also got a bunch of leaked skins and cosmetics to take a peak at. It’s been two weeks since the release of the 14.40 Fortnitemares patch, so it’s no surprise that Epic…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

NATO

Senators call out Parlade on issue of red-tagging

Senators call out Parlade on issue of red-tagging Senators called out Lieutenant General Antonio Parlade Jr. over his much-criticized warning on actress Liza Soberano and other personalities for their engagement with the Gabriela Women’s Party. General Antonio Parlade Jr. (PCOO / MANILA BULLETIN)During the Senate defense committee’s hearing on the…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Black Hole

Debate Erupts Over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow

Abstractions blogBy Adam MannNovember 3, 2020 Once missing in action, middleweight black holes have finally been detected. Now researchers are trying to figure out how they grow from small ones. Samuel Velasco/Quanta Magazine Until recently, black holes — those celestial spheres so dense that not even light can escape their…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Alibaba

China suspends Jack Ma’s Ant Group Shanghai IPO after warning

HONG KONG: China suspended Ant Group's $37 billion stock market listing on Tuesday, thwarting the world's largest IPO with just days to go in a dramatic blow to the financial technology company founded by billionaire Jack Ma. The Shanghai stock exchange announced that it had suspended the company's initial public…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

A Singaporean startup runs the world’s first robotics café

The food and beverage industry is a tough line to be in—from intense competition to rising manpower and rental costs and now, a global pandemic. According to Enterprise Singapore, only 60% of small F&B businesses survive in their first five years of operation, and a third of F&B outlets are replaced…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

NSA

Video: Ronaldo’s insane off-the-ball movement analyzed

It’s no secret Cristiano Ronaldo is a beast inside the box and a video has now gone viral, showing just how good he is. Ronaldo is 35 years old and still proving to be the best in the business. Not even a 16-day layoff, and three positive COVID-19 tests, could…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Antarctica

The growing cloud of China in Antarctica

Three decades after the creation of the ATS, the Protocol on Environmental Protection was signed in Madrid in 1991, designating Antarctica as a “natural reserve, devoted to peace and science.” Before 2048 — except if it is modified by unanimous agreement of all Consultative Parties — the protocol forbids all actions…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Twinfluencer

Hashtag Trending – Book sales are exciting again; Influencer marketing; Superspreader database

A revolutionary way to sell books catches people’s attention online, influencer marketing budgets are projected to double by 2022, and a new global database helps identity COVID-19 superspreader eventsIt’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, November 3, and I’m your host Baneet…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

Michelle Obama

It’s Already Happening Here

Fascism is the outcome of a collective incapacity to think. This is how, in 1939, Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges explained the success of Adolf Hitler. From his marginal observation post in Buenos Aires, Borges said that the predominance of an irrational logic was predictable in fascists who fanatically believed…

bubmagNovember 3, 2020

China puts focus on development agenda amid ‘new challenges and conflicts’

Fortnite leak suggests the Rift-To-Go and Bush will return

Senators call out Parlade on issue of red-tagging

Debate Erupts Over How ‘Forbidden’ Black Holes Grow

China suspends Jack Ma’s Ant Group Shanghai IPO after warning

A Singaporean startup runs the world’s first robotics café

Video: Ronaldo’s insane off-the-ball movement analyzed

The growing cloud of China in Antarctica

Hashtag Trending – Book sales are exciting again; Influencer marketing; Superspreader database

It’s Already Happening Here

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