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Car Companies Tap Amazon Alexa And Google Android For New Car Tech

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bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Orangutan

This orangutan saw a man wading in snake-infested water and decided to offer a helping hand

The natural world never fails to surprise us, and this moving encounter between an orangutan and a man in Borneo has melted hearts all over the world.Amateur photographer Anil Prabhakar captured the fleeting moment, in which one of the Indonesian island's critically endangered apes stretched out its hand to help…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Stalingrad

Russian sisters separated during WWII reunited after 78 years

published : 8 Feb 2020 at 01:45 The Battle of Stalingrad in WWII saw devastating losses with more than a million troops killed on each side. MOSCOW: Two Russian sisters have been reunited 78 years after they were separated by the turmoil of World War II, thanks to a television…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Bushfire

Fire-hit Australia faces flooding threat

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption'Sydney has had its wettest day in well over a year'The Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) is braced for severe wet weather this weekend as downpours ease the bushfire crisis in the region. Severe weather warnings for rain, winds and…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Belt and Road

Dynamic analysis of agricultural carbon emissions efficiency in Chinese provinces along the Belt and Road

Loading metrics Open Access Peer-reviewed Research Article Hua Zhang, Sidai Guo, Yubing Qian, Yan Liu, Chengpeng Lu x Published: February 7, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0228223 AbstractTo better understand the agricultural resources and environmental problems of the provinces along The Belt and Road in China, it is critical to investigate their agricultural carbon…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Filter Bubble

The BBC should stop placating bullies and apply these simple fixes

UKIP's Nigel Farage and Labour's Angela Rayner on a Question Time election special, December 2019 | BBC/Fair use The BBC had a poor election and a poor Brexit, being accused of political bias by both Left and Right, both Leave and Remain. It tends to respond in such circumstances that…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Joker

Explaining the Joker’s Minimal But Crucial Role in Birds of Prey

Harley Quinn gets her own supervillain spinoff with Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn). But her longtime paramour, the Joker, doesn’t join her onscreen for the movie. The two break up in the opening minutes. Harley (Margot Robbie, reprising her Suicide Squad role) talks about…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Tesla

Perfect Visual Effects Replace an Ugly Car With an Even Uglier Tesla Cybertruck in Back to the Future

Rich white dudes have a storied history of making aesthetically-challenged vehicles that look like jigsaw puzzles of stainless steel panels as demonstrated by a Toronto-based visual effects studio who seamlessly replaced the time-traveling DeLorean in Back to…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Slavery Abolition

Oscars So Very Incredibly Racist: Investigating 92 Years Of Academy Awards For Acting

In 2016, inspired by the #OscarsSoWhite conversation and other conversations about racial diversity at the Oscars that have started since then, I volunteered to write a post listing all the white actors who had been nominated for Oscars for playing people of color. As I did the research for that…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

SpaceX

SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program

Getting a satellite to space used to be incredibly expensive. Thanks to SpaceX's new Smallsat Rideshare Program, companies and researchers can get their payload into orbit for a far smaller fee. The program supports payloads up to 1,000 lbs. in its 15" ports and 1,830 lbs. in its 24" ports,…

bubmagFebruary 7, 2020

Car Companies Tap Amazon Alexa And Google Android For New Car Tech

This orangutan saw a man wading in snake-infested water and decided to offer a helping hand

Russian sisters separated during WWII reunited after 78 years

Fire-hit Australia faces flooding threat

Dynamic analysis of agricultural carbon emissions efficiency in Chinese provinces along the Belt and Road

The BBC should stop placating bullies and apply these simple fixes

Explaining the Joker’s Minimal But Crucial Role in Birds of Prey

Perfect Visual Effects Replace an Ugly Car With an Even Uglier Tesla Cybertruck in Back to the Future

Oscars So Very Incredibly Racist: Investigating 92 Years Of Academy Awards For Acting

SpaceX Smallsat Rideshare Program

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