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Brexit

These earbuds created by Beats by Dre engineers are just as awesome and cost a whole lot less

With so many manufacturers out there these days, it’s tough to know who to trust in the ultra-competitive wireless earbuds market. If you’ve never heard of LinearFlux, you may soon. That’s because it’s a company with a stellar pedigree whose co-founders were two of the engineers behind the original success…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Food Industry

What’s up? CBD again.

I can hardly keep up with the accounts of the CBD business. The business is booming. The research? Not so much. The regulation? Lagging. Here are some recent items. NASDA, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, has a report on hemp. Plaintiff’s Bar turns attention to CBD with…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Hydrogen

Solar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback

Hydrogen is flowing in pipes under the streets in Cappelle-la-Grande, helping to energize 100 homes in this northern France village. On a short side road adjacent to the town center, a new electrolyzer machine inside a small metal shed zaps water with electricity from wind and solar farms to create “renewable”…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Solar Storm

How often do severe solar storms pummel the Earth?

Every now and again, the Sun gets testy. Huge storms erupt from its surface, some (called solar flares) firing out intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, some (called coronal mass ejections) blasting out billions of tons of subatomic particles that sleet across the solar system at incredible speeds. If these…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Electric Car

Tesla Raises $2.31 Billion in Its Stock Offering

Investors and underwriters quickly bought up the offering, helping the electric-car company raise the maximum amount of capital it was aiming for. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) surprised investors earlier this month when the electric-car company announced it would raise capital -- just two weeks after management said it didn't make sense to…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Neymar

LaLiga: Lionel Messi says Neymar eager to return to Barcelona, feels Catalans not good enough to win Champions League

Barcelona launched an offensive to bring the Brazilian back last year from PSG yet ultimately failed to agree a price with the Ligue 1 champions 'He is very excited about returning, he has always shown that he regrets what happened,' said the talismanic Barcelona forward Neymar formed a mesmeric partnership…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Targeted Killings

Drones and the Legality and Ethics of War

Drones and the Legality and Ethics of War Franklin C. Annis The use of drones is a natural evolution in the science of war. On the tactical level, militaries often seek to damage their opponent’s forces while presenting the least amount of risk to their own soldiers. Armed drones seem…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Christchurch

German Rampage Confirms Worst Fears of Security Chiefs

LONDON - Wednesday's massacre in the German town of Hanau, 25 kilometers east of Frankfurt confirmed the worst fears of Germany's top security officials. They have been preparing for months for more far-right violence, and the shooting by a lone wolf gunman in Hanau, leaving nine dead at two hookah…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Bolsonaro

Brazil senator Cid Gomes shot in stand-off with police

Image copyright AFP Image caption Cid Gomes is a senator and former governor of the state of Ceará A Brazilian senator, Cid Gomes, has been injured after shots were fired at him during a stand-off with police.Senator Gomes, 56, was driving a digger towards a fence behind which a group…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

Star Wars

Exclusive: Baby Yoda Steals the Show in Hasbro’s Adorable New Star Wars Vehicle Line

All wings, report in: Hasbro’s got a very cute new line of Star Wars toys!Image: HasbroToys and CollectiblesAction figures, statues, exclusives, and other merchandise. Beware: if you look here, you’re probably going to spend some money afterwards.Star Wars toys are all about getting the characters we love in playable plastic…

bubmagFebruary 20, 2020

These earbuds created by Beats by Dre engineers are just as awesome and cost a whole lot less

What’s up? CBD again.

Solar and Wind Power Could Ignite a Hydrogen Energy Comeback

How often do severe solar storms pummel the Earth?

Tesla Raises $2.31 Billion in Its Stock Offering

LaLiga: Lionel Messi says Neymar eager to return to Barcelona, feels Catalans not good enough to win Champions League

Drones and the Legality and Ethics of War

German Rampage Confirms Worst Fears of Security Chiefs

Brazil senator Cid Gomes shot in stand-off with police

Exclusive: Baby Yoda Steals the Show in Hasbro’s Adorable New Star Wars Vehicle Line

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