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Tesla

NTSB blasts Tesla, CalTrans, and NHTSA for Autopilot death

distracted driving is bad — There was plenty of blame to go around for the Apple engineer's death in 2018. Jonathan M. Gitlin - Feb 26, 2020 6:04 pm UTC On Monday, the National Transportation Safety Board met to discuss its investigation into the March 2018 crash that killed Tesla…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Huawei

Huawei’s app store is still mostly irrelevant to anyone in the west

When I was but a youngster, my father was a mechanic for one of the local stock car drivers. At the risk of showing my age, I can remember that somehow local promoters convinced Richard Petty to race at the little local track. In the weeks before that day, I…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Antibiotics

The full economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak could be yet to come

AssessmentsSenior Analyst for Global Economics, StratforThe chief factor in forecasting the coronavirus outbreak's effects on the global economy will be how quickly the virus can be contained.(yingko/Shutterstock)Several weeks into the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, it's clear the economic impact will be significant,…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Christianity

Trump evangelicals abandoned the Sermon on the Mount and replaced it with the ‘Trumpian order’: Historian Jon Meacham

In an op-ed for the New York Times this Tuesday, historian Jon Meacham discusses the state of Christianity in America during the age of Donald Trump. He points out that Christianity, especially in the hands of Trump-supporting evangelicals, has lost its moral authority in the eyes of many Americans. Understandable,…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Super Heroes

Marvel United Reveals Awesome Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel Painted Game Pieces (Exclusive)

CMON and Spin Master Games' Marvel United has been a huge hit on Kickstarter, and as a result, fans will have plenty of their favorite Marvel heroes to play as when the anticipated game releases later this year. While we've seen some of the fantastic game piece sculpts revealed through…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Dalai Lama

Disney’s Attempts To Avoid The Errors Of Mulan’s Original Chinese Debut Might Be Undone By The Coronavirus

Liu Yifei takes aim as Disney’s new Mulan. (Image: Disney) In 1998, Disney’s attempts to launch its animated take on the fable of Hua Mulan in China hit a snag that delayed its release by nearly a year. Now, on the precipice of releasing its live-action remake aimed even further…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

SpaceX

Earth has tiny temporary second moon, after “capturing” asteroid

With the illustrious name Temporarily Captured Object 2020 CD3, Earth's new moon might not be entertaining a manned landing at any time in the future. Especially since it's only a few feet wide. But the tiny sattelite, spotted February 15 with the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona, is something to…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Tories and Labour

An Identity Crisis Hits British Politics

The British Labour Party recently celebrated its 120th birthday. Lately, that’s all it has had to celebrate. December’s general election shrunk the party’s number of MPs to 202, its lowest level since 1935. And with four more years of Tory rule to come, the candidates fighting to replace the disastrous…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

NSA

House Dems fear last-minute move by Lofgren jeopardizes FISA renewal

There had been staff-level discussions between Lofgren's staff and the committees negotiating the bill, who believed until Tuesday that there would be no amendment effort. "The committee and Chairman Nadler have been working very carefully in intense negotiation for months with all the interest groups and had worked out a…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

Pandemic

Coronavirus: What does pandemic mean?

TORONTO -- As the list of countries dealing with COVID-19 grows, a Toronto infectious disease expert says the virus outbreak is already likely at pandemic level – but that’s not clear because some countries are hiding the extent of their outbreak. “People are kind of dancing around the word pandemic,”…

bubmagFebruary 26, 2020

NTSB blasts Tesla, CalTrans, and NHTSA for Autopilot death

Huawei’s app store is still mostly irrelevant to anyone in the west

The full economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak could be yet to come

Trump evangelicals abandoned the Sermon on the Mount and replaced it with the ‘Trumpian order’: Historian Jon Meacham

Marvel United Reveals Awesome Moon Knight and Ms. Marvel Painted Game Pieces (Exclusive)

Disney’s Attempts To Avoid The Errors Of Mulan’s Original Chinese Debut Might Be Undone By The Coronavirus

Earth has tiny temporary second moon, after “capturing” asteroid

An Identity Crisis Hits British Politics

House Dems fear last-minute move by Lofgren jeopardizes FISA renewal

Coronavirus: What does pandemic mean?

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