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Trump Organisation pressed on US president’s Chinese bank account Times Square

Trump Organisation pressed on US president’s Chinese bank account

US President Donald Trump listens during the second and final presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22. Photo: AP Democrat lawmakers want company to reveal name of financial institution and provide detailed accounting of transactions Senators also want more information on Ivanka Trump’s trademarks in China Topic |   US Presidential…
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October 28, 2020
Are You Fracking Kidding Me, Trump? Black Thursday

Are You Fracking Kidding Me, Trump?

Donald Trump, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, is mulling an executive order to make federal agencies perform an economic analysis of fracking—on the theory, presumably, that there’s no voter-seducing soundbite better than one involving the words “capital allocation.” It’s an odd last-minute play for fuel-producing swing states like…
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October 28, 2020
Google’s Transporter Network uses minimal data to teach robots to stack blocks Google

Google’s Transporter Network uses minimal data to teach robots to stack blocks

Researchers at Google say they’ve developed an AI model architecture — Transporter Network — that enables object-grasping robots to reason about which visual cues are important and how they should be rearranged in a scene. During experiments, the researchers say their Transporter Networks achieved “superior” efficiency on a number of…
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October 28, 2020
Greenland ice melt is changing the shape of its coastline Greenland

Greenland ice melt is changing the shape of its coastline

Home News NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft spies the Upper Baffin Bay coast on March 27, 2017, above Greenland. (Image: © Mario Tama/Getty Images) Rapid melt is reshaping coastal Greenland, potentially altering the human and animal ecosystems along the country's coast. New research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth…
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October 28, 2020
China Tech Digest: TikTok To Partner With Shopify, Huawei Still No. 1 Phone Seller In China TikTok

China Tech Digest: TikTok To Partner With Shopify, Huawei Still No. 1 Phone Seller In China

TikTok to recruit 3000 engineers worldwide, and cooperates with Shopify On Tuesday, the short video platform TikTok (TikTok Overseas Edition) announced that the company plans to hire about 3,000 engineers in the next three years, mainly in Europe, Canada and Singapore. This move shows that although the uncertainty about ownership…
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October 28, 2020
Billie Jean King on Health Care, Climate Change, and the Coronavirus Pandemic Climate Change

Billie Jean King on Health Care, Climate Change, and the Coronavirus Pandemic

Legendary tennis champion Billie Jean King knows how devastating this year has been—especially for people with chronic health conditions. King, 76, who was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 2007, wasn’t able to attend much of the U.S. Open this year due to safety protocols. “Remember, this year more than…
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October 28, 2020
Hangzhou City Proposes Laws Prohibiting Mandatory Facial Recognition Clearview

Hangzhou City Proposes Laws Prohibiting Mandatory Facial Recognition

On October 26, a new regulations was submitted to the 30th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th Hangzhou Municipal People’s Congress for deliberation. The revised draft clearly stipulates that it is forbidden to force owners to enter a residential community through biometric information such as fingerprints and face…
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October 28, 2020