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From I to We Self-driving Vehicles

From I to We

The Upswing, Robert Putnam and Shaylyn Romney Garrett’s ambitious new study of American Progressivism found and lost, opens with a disturbing vision. If Alexis de Tocqueville, who chronicled the flowering of American democracy in the 1830s, were transported into the present, the authors imagine, this is what he would see:…
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September 17, 2020
Instant Opinion: Internal Market Bill ‘isn’t radical enough’ Brexit

Instant Opinion: Internal Market Bill ‘isn’t radical enough’

The Week’s daily round-up highlights the five best opinion pieces from across the British and international media, with excerpts from each.1. Stephen Daisley in The Spectatoron winding up Scottish nationalistsThe Internal Market Bill isn’t radical enough“The more the SNP decries the Internal Market Bill, the more I warm to it.…
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September 17, 2020
Can Nikola become the next Tesla? Hydrogen

Can Nikola become the next Tesla?

Not if a suspicious short-seller has its wayONE WAY to try to emulate Tesla’s success is to name your firm after the same person. Nikola, founded in 2014 to make electric and hydrogen-powered lorries, is, like Elon Musk’s carmaker, named after Nikola Tesla, a Serbian-American pioneer of electricity. Nikola’s market…
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September 17, 2020
Hashtag Trending – iOS 14; Facebook’s new VR headset; Database drama overseas VR

Hashtag Trending – iOS 14; Facebook’s new VR headset; Database drama overseas

iOS 14 is here, Facebook’s new VR headset, and an overseas Chinese information database has some inside scoops on influential people.It’s all the tech news that’s popular right now. Welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Tuesday, Sept. 17, and I’m your host Baneet Braich.It was an exciting day for most iPhone…
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September 17, 2020
Kim Jong Un’s fawning letters to Donald Trump revealed in Bob Woodward book Kim Jong Un

Kim Jong Un’s fawning letters to Donald Trump revealed in Bob Woodward book

US President Donald Trump (left) meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in the Demilitarised Zone. Photo / APNew details have emerged about the rollercoaster relationship between US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim…
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September 17, 2020
Lakers’ Dwight Howard Says Life in NBA Bubble Has Been ‘Extremely Difficult’ Bubble

Lakers’ Dwight Howard Says Life in NBA Bubble Has Been ‘Extremely Difficult’

Mike Ehrmann/Associated PressLos Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard spoke about the difficulties of being on the NBA's Walt Disney World campus, where the end of the regular season and entire postseason is being held because of the COVID-19 pandemic."There's really nothing to do," Howard told reporters Wednesday. "If I can…
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September 17, 2020
Sally Downgraded to Tropical Depression After Making Landfall Hurricane

Sally Downgraded to Tropical Depression After Making Landfall

The weather event formerly known as Hurricane Sally, a cyclone that left half a million people in Florida and Alabama without power this week, has been downgraded to a tropical depression, according to the National Hurricane Center and Central Pacific Hurricane Center (NHC/CPHC).A tropical depression is an atmospheric low-pressure system…
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September 17, 2020