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Privacy Concerns

NHS track and trace app: how will it work and when can you download it?

With Britain in lockdown, the Government has been racing to find ways to ease restrictions without putting public safety at risk. One solution is a contact-tracing app that can enable digital contact-tracing on a large scale. On May 5, the Government revealed its first attempt at a contact-tracing app. But…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Feudalism

Sudhir Mishra live on Instagram @thehinduweekend

The director will discuss Abrar Alvi’s Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, current developments in the US and the controversy around Gone With The Wind Meena Kumari’s splendid performance as the lovelorn Chhoti Bahu caught in a bad marriage with a zamindar, the indefinable relationship between her and simpleton Bhootnath (Guru Dutt) who has come to…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

World War 2

UKTV remove German episode from Fawlty Towers catalogue

Updated / Friday, 12 Jun 2020 22:10 John Cleese in Fawlty Towers A classic episode of 1970s sitcom Fawlty Towers is to be reinstated on streaming service UKTV after it was removed because it contains "racial slurs". UKTV confirmed in a statement that the famous "don't mention the war" episode…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Doping Test

US boxer escapes ban after failing dope test due to sex

Updated / Friday, 12 Jun 2020 08:09 Virginia Fuchs (R) fights during U.S. Olympic Boxing Team Trials last December US Olympic team boxer Virginia Fuchs has been cleared of a doping violation after the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) determined that banned substances in her sample had been transmitted during…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Soundcloud

Byta, the private music sharing service for pre-releases and more, raises seed round

Byta, the music sharing service for pre-releases and other use cases where there is a need to share sound files privately, has picked up around $1.4 million in seed funding. The round was led by the Canada Media Fund, with participation from of private investors. They include musician Scott Kannberg,…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Liam Gallagher

MTV Unplugged [Live at Hull City Hall] by Liam Gallagher

The New York TimesJun 12, 2020 70 The arrangements on “MTV Unplugged” are occasionally overstuffed with stately “Eleanor Rigby” strings, but I prefer them to much of the studio material, since they’re airy enough to allow the unvarnished snarl of Gallagher’s voice to come through loud and clear. ... The…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Food Industry

Luxury food industry turns sour amid global coronavirus lockdowns

View photosFILE PHOTO: Meat from a 278kg bluefin tuna, priced with a bid over $3 million at Toyosu fish market's first tuna auction of the year, is pictured at Sushi Zanmai restaurant in Tokyo, JapanBy Naveen Thukral, Yuka Obayashi and Sybille de La HamaideSINGAPORE/TOKYO/PARIS (Reuters) - Global demand for premium…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Idlib

Syria economic meltdown presents new challenge for Assad

BEIRUT (AP) — In scenes not witnessed for years in government-controlled parts of Syria, dozens of men and women marched through the streets this week, protesting a sharp increase in prices and collapse of the currency, some even calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad and his ruling Baath…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Syria

Looming US sanctions shake Syria, hasten economic meltdown

BEIRUT (AP) — In scenes not witnessed for years in government-controlled parts of Syria, dozens of men and women marched through the streets this week, protesting a sharp increase in prices and collapse of the currency, some even calling for the downfall of President Bashar Assad and his ruling Baath…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

Astroturfing

Devolution to Revolution: An Already Demoralized U.S. is Now Being Destabilized

The two destabilizing events recently occurring back-to-back, the response to the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic, and the George Floyd rioting, illustrate well how America is now institutionally incapable of making decisions in her own best interests. That is, the overreaction to the disease and under-reaction to the rioting reflect a country…

bubmagJune 12, 2020

NHS track and trace app: how will it work and when can you download it?

Sudhir Mishra live on Instagram @thehinduweekend

UKTV remove German episode from Fawlty Towers catalogue

US boxer escapes ban after failing dope test due to sex

Byta, the private music sharing service for pre-releases and more, raises seed round

MTV Unplugged [Live at Hull City Hall] by Liam Gallagher

Luxury food industry turns sour amid global coronavirus lockdowns

Syria economic meltdown presents new challenge for Assad

Looming US sanctions shake Syria, hasten economic meltdown

Devolution to Revolution: An Already Demoralized U.S. is Now Being Destabilized

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