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Palantir

Secretive, never profitable Palantir makes its market debut

BOSTON (AP) — Seventeen years after it was born with the help of CIA seed money, the data-mining outfit Palantir Technologies is finally going public in the biggest Wall Street tech offering since last year’s debut of Slack and Uber.Never profitable and dogged by ethical objections for assisting in the…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Boris Johnson

Covid-19 rebels emboldened by Boris Johnson’s lockdown confusion

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bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Singapore

Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore

A worker tends to a rooftop farming patch atop the Raffles City mall in Singapore On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas and papayas stand in colourful contrast to the grey skyscrapers of the city-state's business district. The 10,000 square-foot (930 square-metre)…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Panda

Baby boom at Taipei Zoo lightens pandemic blues

Black-capped squirrel monkeys waiting for food at Taipei Zoo Taiwan's largest zoo has celebrated a flurry of births in recent months—including pandas and pangolins—in a welcome boost during a visitor slump due to the coronavirus. Human footfall to Taipei Zoo may have dropped this year but officials have been kept…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Mexico Border Wall

Exposing Trump’s Ugly Fearmongering Over the Migrant Caravan

Blood on the Wall, the new film from Restrepo co-director Sebastian Junger, and co-directed by Nick Quested, is Junger’s most political yet. The film, out Sept. 30 on National Geographic, follows three groups in 2017 and 2018: a caravan of Central American migrants traveling through Mexico and hoping to make…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

NSA

Kylie Jenner Bikini Pic Has Insane Impact on Voter Registration

Kylie Jenner Bikini Voter Drive Works ... Vote.org Gets Crazy 1500% Boost!!! 9/30/2020 1:00 AM PT Exclusive Kylie Jenner is flexing her political influence in a very impressive way ... turning your standard IG thirst trap into nearly 50,000 potential new registered voters! TMZ's learned Kylie's smoke show bikini pics…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Panda

Pandas on board as Taipei Zoo’s baby boom lightens pandemic blues

Giant panda Yuan Yuan gave birth to Yuan Bao in June. Photo: AFPSecond female cub is born to giant panda Yuan Yuan, and the public may be able to see her at the zoo later this year Malayan tapir who appeared in Oscar-winning film Life of Pi also among the…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Unwelcome Refugees

Nazi Shanghai: Nazis and Jews Fought Bitter War of Agitprop

As the winds of war gathered menacingly throughout Europe and across the Pacific, Hitler’s Third Reich extended its odious apparatus to the farthest outpost in the East… Shanghai. The Nazis were everywhere in Old Shanghai – in the clubs, in the streets and on the Bund. They were a monstrous…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

NSA

Will we see more Australian businesses transact with cryptocurrency?

Listen to this story Cryptocurrencies have had a rocky road towards mainstream acceptance. In 2017, the CEO of JP Morgan, Jamie Dimon, called bitcoin “a fraud”. However in 2019, JP Morgan became the first US bank to successfully test its own digital coin. The growth of digital currency has…

bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Riots

Calling All Patriots: What Was The Best Moment From The First Debate?

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bubmagSeptember 30, 2020

Secretive, never profitable Palantir makes its market debut

Covid-19 rebels emboldened by Boris Johnson’s lockdown confusion

Green shoots: Rooftop farming takes off in Singapore

Baby boom at Taipei Zoo lightens pandemic blues

Exposing Trump’s Ugly Fearmongering Over the Migrant Caravan

Kylie Jenner Bikini Pic Has Insane Impact on Voter Registration

Pandas on board as Taipei Zoo’s baby boom lightens pandemic blues

Nazi Shanghai: Nazis and Jews Fought Bitter War of Agitprop

Will we see more Australian businesses transact with cryptocurrency?

Calling All Patriots: What Was The Best Moment From The First Debate?

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