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TikTok

How TikTok decides who to make famous

Read part one of this post, “Leveraging TikTok for growth,” on TechCrunch. So what do we mean when we say then, the post is reviewed by an AI? TikTok is the most extensive content moderation system that has ever existed. The 411 on content moderation To ma…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

TikTok

Leveraging TikTok for growth

Once you have a product, distributing it becomes the next challenge for any entrepreneur. At TRASH (one-tap video editing), we looked to TikTok as a potential marketing channel. As early learnings started to roll in, we decided to share whats going on inside …

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Qassim Soleimani

Pro-Iranian Regime US Senator Held Secret Meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif in Munich, Germany

by Jim Hoft February 17, 2020 In early January the United States killed General Qassim Soleimani, a top commander of Iran’s al-Quds Force, in an airstrike at Baghdad’s International Airport. The strike also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the deputy commander of Iran-backed militias known as the Popular Mobilization Forces. Seven people were…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Water Pollution

Clamping down on financial greenwashing in the EU

Sébastien Godinot, Economist with the WWF European Policy Office, welcomes new European laws that will make it much clearer which investments are genuinely sustainable and help shift funding from fossil fuels to clean energiesA ray of light is set to penetrate the murky world of finance thanks to a new…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Virtual Reality

Wellness Travel Gets A High Tech Upgrade

Virtual reality spa treatments, ultrasound therapy, and data-driven wellness retreats are trending in Hawaii. Other destinations will soon follow. Four Seasons Hotel Lanai at Koele, A Sensei Retreat. Photo by Robb Gordon. Courtesy Four Seasons Hotels Is your circadian rhythm optimized? Has your facial collagen been refreshed lately? How’s the…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Elon Musk

Max Q: Spacex gets ready for first human flight

Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. This week turned out to be a surprisingly busy one in space news — kicked off by the Trump administration’s FY 2021 budget proposal, which was generous to…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Christianity

Vice article portrays abortion as a potential ‘religious right’

Should someone's religious beliefs give them the right to take the life of an unborn child? A story published at Vice last week raises the question by portraying abortion in terms of free exercise for some believers. Here's a sampling of the story: he success of the Christian anti-abortion movement…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Vietnam Veterans

Why The Limbaugh Buttigieg Comments Are A Strategic Political Blunder For Trump

Chasten Buttigieg (L) kisses his husband, Pete Buttigieg. Radio Host Rush Limbaugh said Democrats ... would be "scared" to nominate him. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Getty Images Rush Limbaugh’s taunt about Pete Buttigieg’s sexuality is a tactical error that Democrats should do their best to amplify. Though he artfully…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Rijksmuseum

A Formafantasma-Designed Exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

For the Rijksmuseum’s current exhibition, C aravaggio-Bernini. Baroque in Rome, the Netherlands-based multidisciplinary design duo Formafantasma produced the striking exhibit space. Using muted shades of blue, yellow, peach and pink; traditional textiles from…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

Brown Coal

Europe’s biggest economy is quitting coal, so far without sacking a single worker

Updated February 19, 2020 10:00:03 Deep underground in Germany's Ruhr valley, Uwe Seeger plunges a drill into the black earth just as thousands of coal miners in this region have done before him. "My grandpa did it like this, we used it like this to destroy the big stones," he…

bubmagFebruary 17, 2020

How TikTok decides who to make famous

Leveraging TikTok for growth

Pro-Iranian Regime US Senator Held Secret Meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif in Munich, Germany

Clamping down on financial greenwashing in the EU

Wellness Travel Gets A High Tech Upgrade

Max Q: Spacex gets ready for first human flight

Vice article portrays abortion as a potential ‘religious right’

Why The Limbaugh Buttigieg Comments Are A Strategic Political Blunder For Trump

A Formafantasma-Designed Exhibition at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum

Europe’s biggest economy is quitting coal, so far without sacking a single worker

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