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Self-driving Vehicles

Shanghai ride-hailers can now call for an AutoX self-driving taxi

Autonomous driving tech company AutoX has partnered with the Alibaba Group's Amap mobility platform to offer folks in Shanghai the option to hail a ride in an AutoX RoboTaxi.Reported to be the first time such an option has been made available through a major ride-hailing platform in China, a ride-hailer…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Pope Francis

Italy bishops scold government for excluding Mass from lockdown easing

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Italy’s Roman Catholic Church has reprimanded the government for not allowing the faithful to return to Masses at the start of a gradual staged end to Europe’s longest coronavirus lockdown. FILE PHOTO: Pope Francis leads Mass and the Regina Coeli prayer in Rome's Santo Spirito in…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

SpaceX

SpaceX’s first full-scale Starship passes key test

Elon Musks Starship SN4, which the entrepreneur hopes will one day lead to a successful mission to Mars, became SpaceXs first full-scale Starship prototype to pass a cryogenic proof test at the companys launch site in Boca Chica, Texas on Sunday. The cryoge… Read More

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Greenland

Greenland to receive US development funds

Greenland on Thursday said it had accepted an offer of $12.1 million in funds from the US for civilian projects in its massive and coveted Arctic territory. The money would primarily be used for projects that will "benefit the economic development of Greenland," the territory's government said in a statement,…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Body Shaming

Jenelle Evans: Screw This Pandemic! I Need My Hair Done!

Jenelle Evans may or may not have been caught stealing money from charity this month. But the former Teen Mom star was definitely caught at a hair salon over the weekend ... ... despite a clear shelter-at-home order remaining in place for all North Carolina residents. A significant majority of…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Meritocracy

Letter Grades Get Erased From School, With Little Consensus On How To Replace Them.

Please enable cookies on your web browser in order to continue. The new European data protection law requires us to inform you of the following before you use our website: We use cookies and other technologies to customize your experience, perform analytics and deliver personalized advertising on our sites, apps…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Android

Wot I Think: Cloudpunk

Cloudpunk could have been a lot of things, many of them disappointing. It could have taken itself far too seriously. It could have been far too lightweight or by-the-numbers. It could have been a miserably realistic sisyphean chore. If I wanted to be cruel, I’d say it could have been…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Kim Jong Un

What would happen to North Korea if Kim Jong Un died

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has not been seen in public for more than two weeks, missing commemorations for a key political anniversary, and reports he underwent a cardiovascular procedure have spiralled into speculation he could be incapacitated or even dead.Both Seoul and Washington have played them down, but…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Matteo Salvini

Tired and Stumbling, Conte Struggles to Exit Italy Lockdown

View photos(Bloomberg) --Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, taken to task by critics for being slow to put Italy into a lockdown as the coronavirus outbreak struck, is now struggling to map a way out and restart the country’s crippled economy.During a Sunday news conference to announce what many hoped would be…

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Barack Obama

Trump plots new election strategy: tie Biden to China – and attack them both

Meet Beijing Biden, also known as Sleepy Joe. According to Donald Trump and his allies, he is both a comrade of Crazy Bernie and an establishment creature of Washington, whose coziness with China and long history of verbal stumbles make him unfit for the pres… Read More

bubmagApril 27, 2020

Shanghai ride-hailers can now call for an AutoX self-driving taxi

Italy bishops scold government for excluding Mass from lockdown easing

SpaceX’s first full-scale Starship passes key test

Greenland to receive US development funds

Jenelle Evans: Screw This Pandemic! I Need My Hair Done!

Letter Grades Get Erased From School, With Little Consensus On How To Replace Them.

Wot I Think: Cloudpunk

What would happen to North Korea if Kim Jong Un died

Tired and Stumbling, Conte Struggles to Exit Italy Lockdown

Trump plots new election strategy: tie Biden to China – and attack them both

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