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Be Evil

Inside X, Google’s top-secret moonshot factory

Eric "Astro" Teller, X's Captain of MoonshotsDamien Maloney Gandalf arrives on rollerblades. It’s morning in the cafeteria at X – formerly Google X – and Astro Teller, X’s Captain of Moonshots, glides over dressed in coarse grey robes and a pointed hat, carrying oatmeal. Jedi stroll past to their desks,…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Alibaba

Blackstone’s builder

The Inside the Mind of the CEO interview series explores a wide range of critical decisions faced by chief executives around the world. For more insight, see PwC’s CEO Survey. This interview was conducted in January 2020 by Daniel Gross, executive editor of strategy+business, together with Neil Dhar, financial services industry…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Protectionism

Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition

Yves here. While most people respond better to positive messaging, I find “degrowth” to be far too sanitized a term for the sort of consumption cutbacks we all have to make to have any hope of averting the worst climate and species loss outcomes. A big problem is most of…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Antarctica

Earth’s glacial cycles enhanced by Antarctic sea-ice

IMAGE: North-South ocean currents are shown at different depths in the ocean, with their strength and direction indicated by the arrows. The density of the water increases with depth, from low... view more Credit: IBS During past glacial periods the earth was about 6ºC colder and the Northern hemisphere continents were…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

NASDAQ

Upland Software, a cloud-based enterprise work management platform, acquired mobile app personalization and analytics provider Localytics for ~$68M in cash (FinSMEs)

February 17, 2020, 12:45 AM Top News More: Alex's Personal Blog and MediaSquared Tweets: @balajis, @karaswisher, @rashmi, @chr1sa, @mikeisaac, @jason, @tayhatmaker, @arrington, @mathewi, @antoniogm, @karaswisher, @jarroddicker, @alexstamos, @anildash, @alexstamos, @alex, @arrington, @sfiegerman, @ricmac, @karaswisher, @hunterwalk, @stevesi, @tolles, @webdevmason, @zebulgar, @ktmboyle, @nw_horadam, @antoniogm, @jason_kint, @brij, @martinsfp, @susanthesquark, @justglew, @yaserbi, @cnyari, @antoniogm, @edmundlee,…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Silk Road

The Siren Call of a ‘System Leader’

A considerable spectrum of the liberal West takes the American interpretation of what civilization consists of to be something like an immutable law of nature. But what if this interpretation is on the verge of an irreparable breakdown? Michael Vlahos has argued that the US is not a mere nation-state but a…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Hurricane

Player grades: Josh Archibald the unlikely overtime hero as Oilers weather Hurricanes

Oilers 4, Hurricanes 3 (OT)OK, everybody, maybe it’s time to take everything we thought we knew about “schedule losses” and throw it all into the compost pile.The Edmonton Oilers, who so often have aggravated home fans by losing games where they have the rest advantage in their favour, have consistently…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Air Pollution

The secondhand smoke you’re breathing may have come from another state

Scientists estimate that each year in the U.S., outdoor air pollution shortens the lives of about 100,000 people by one to two decades. As it turns out, much of this pollution originates not in a person's own neighborhood, but up to hundreds or even thousands of miles away in neighboring…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Brexit Negotiator

The Japanese Economy Takes a Beating as Focus Shifts Brexit and the Pound

Earlier in the Day:It was a relatively quiet day on the Asian economic calendar this morning. Economic data was limited to 4th quarter GDP numbers out of Japan.Updates from China and the rest of the world on COVID-19 cases and the number of deaths also influenced early in the day.According…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Palestine

UN Publishes List of Companies Profiting from Israel’s Illegal Settlements in Palestine

Read the list here After years of unexplained delays, the United Nations this week released a list of over 100 companies with ties to illegal Israeli settler colonies in the occupied West Bank of Palestine. In a statement released on Wednesday, the UN Human Rights Office identified 112 businesses profiting…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Inside X, Google’s top-secret moonshot factory

Blackstone’s builder

Breakdown or Breakthrough? Degrowth and the Great Transition

Earth’s glacial cycles enhanced by Antarctic sea-ice

Upland Software, a cloud-based enterprise work management platform, acquired mobile app personalization and analytics provider Localytics for ~$68M in cash (FinSMEs)

The Siren Call of a ‘System Leader’

Player grades: Josh Archibald the unlikely overtime hero as Oilers weather Hurricanes

The secondhand smoke you’re breathing may have come from another state

The Japanese Economy Takes a Beating as Focus Shifts Brexit and the Pound

UN Publishes List of Companies Profiting from Israel’s Illegal Settlements in Palestine

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