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Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a glossy feminist romp through competitive chess culture

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers.If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. By Brooke Bajgrowicz2020-10-23 10:00:00 UTC There is nothing I hate more than a slow-moving show. I like series that are easy to follow and…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Bushfire

Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?

The Bear fire was one of the largest of the over 8,000 wildfires that have beset California this year. Now incorporated into the still-burning North Complex Fire, the Bear started in the Plumas National Forest, sparked by a series of lightning strikes on August 17 across the northern Sierra Nevada.…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Cursor

The Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him

“I get it,” Mondaire Jones says into the camera, shaking his head. He is speaking on a Thursday night four weeks out from the election, to the virtual audience of a virtual rally hosted by Our Revolution, the PAC created by Bernie Sanders after his first presidential run in 2016;…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Peace

Marvel Realm of Champions, Kabam’s 3v3 MOBA, is now available to pre-register

Kabam's upcoming 3v3 MOBA Marvel Realm of Champions is now available to pre-register for iOS through the game's official website and Android via Google Play. There's no word on a specific release date just yet, however. The game takes place on Battleworld, a forbidden planet that was created by a…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Hongkong

900 out of work, food giant interdicts EC protests

The Labour Court has given Truda Foods the green light to stop about 100 people from harassing and intimidating its staff.Image: 123RF/ Stockstudio44One of Komani’s biggest employers, Truda Foods, has suffered about R10m in losses as protesters have effectively closed down the factory. Truda Foods, which manufactures products like soya…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

China warns UK not to offer citizenship to Hong Kong residents

Publishedduration2 hours agoimage copyrightReutersimage captionBritish National Overseas Passports will give Hong Kong people a pathway to the UKChina has told Britain to "immediately correct its mistakes" after the UK reaffirmed its plan to offer a route to British citizenship to almost three million people living there.The offer was made in…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Self-driving Vehicles

Books of the Week: Tom Stoppard: A Life, Munkey Diaries: 1957-1982, Trio

Hermione Lee’s biography of Tom Stoppard is an “astute and unfailingly clear” commentary on the playwright’s life and work. Jane Birkin’s diaries, addressed to her toy “Munkey”, reveal a troubled icon given to “self-loathing”. And William Boyd’s new novel set in Brighton in 1968 has a mood that’s a “mix…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

eSports

Overwatch League might be heading into a rough offseason

Going through this pandemic hasn’t been easy on any industry, and esports was no exception. Differing local rules and measures, countless cancelled events and travel bans have seriously hurt esports as a whole. While most major leagues successfully adapted and switched to remote and online-only competitions, things are still not…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Hrant Dink

Turkey's Armenians 'cannot breathe' as Karabakh rhetoric rages

Turkey's support of Azerbaijan in its conflict with Armenian separatists in Nagorno-Karabakh is loud and intensely partisan, and the tiny Armenian community in Turkey is feeling under pressure.Since the clashes erupted, pro-Azerbaijan convoys carrying Azerbaijani flags have passed through districts of Istanbul housing Armenian institutions, unverified pictures of "massacres" attributed…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Pandemic

Online faith services find place in pandemic spotlight

When the COVID-19 pandemic struck Canada in early 2020, many places of worship were caught off guard. Two Winnipeg congregations, however — Saint Benedict’s Table and Congregation Shaarey Zedek — were ahead of the game due to the foresight of respective visionaries. Saint Ben’s, as it is known, started moving online…

bubmagOctober 23, 2020

Netflix’s ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ is a glossy feminist romp through competitive chess culture

Has the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?

The Bernie Organizers Who Want to Elect Biden—Then Defeat Him

Marvel Realm of Champions, Kabam’s 3v3 MOBA, is now available to pre-register

900 out of work, food giant interdicts EC protests

Books of the Week: Tom Stoppard: A Life, Munkey Diaries: 1957-1982, Trio

Overwatch League might be heading into a rough offseason

Turkey's Armenians 'cannot breathe' as Karabakh rhetoric rages

Online faith services find place in pandemic spotlight

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