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Unwelcome Refugees

What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?

At 11 P.M. on Friday, Britain will leave the European Union. Big Ben will not bong—it’s too expensive—but the United Kingdom will secede from its defining economic and political relationship of the past fifty years. In Parliament Square, under the silent clock, Nigel Farage, the country’s most influential populist politician…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Geely

Aston Martin Shares Leap 25% As Billionaire Stroll Buys Big Stake

Aston Martin DBX (Photo by Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images) Sjoerd van der Wal/Getty Images Aston Martin shares accelerated ahead Friday after news Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll will buy up to 20% in the ailing luxury sports car and SUV maker, according to Reuters. Aston Martin will raise a total…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Water Pollution

Membranes Market Worth $8.3 Billion by 2024

CHICAGO, Jan. 31, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- According to the new market research report "Membranes Market by Material (Polymeric, Ceramic), Technology (RO, UF, MF, NF), Application (Water & Wastewater Treatment, Industrial Processing), Region (North America, APAC, Europe, MEA, South America) - Global Forecast to 2024", published by MarketsandMarkets™, the Membranes Market is…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Chinese Economy

Gold inches higher on virus concerns

Gold prices inched higher on Friday and were set to post their biggest monthly gain in five, as the coronavirus epidemic fuelled economic slowdown concerns, despite the World Health Organization's confidence that the outbreak could be controlled. Spot gold r…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this

Computer systems must do no harm? ... Ha ha ha... Something for the Weekend, Sir? Greetings from civilisation, for one more day at least. After tonight, I will no longer be a European citizen but an immigrant of indeterminate status. Don't worry, this won't be a Brexit diatribe. I resigned…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Feudalism

Here are 10 things you should know about socialism

What do we mean when we talk about socialism? Here are ten things about its theory, practice, and potential that you need to know. Over the last 200 years, socialism has spread across the world. In every country, it carries the lessons and scars of its parti…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Alibaba

Warren Buffett’s $4.6 million crypto lunch was eBay’s priciest purchase in 2019. It still hasn’t happened.

Dave Weaver/AP Warren Buffett's $4.6 million charity lunch was the biggest purchase on eBay last year.The billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO donated the auction proceeds to GLIDE, a homeless charity.Cryptocurrency entre…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Alibaba

Warren Buffett’s $4.6 million crypto lunch was eBay’s priciest purchase in 2019. It still hasn’t happened.

Warren Buffett's $4.6 million charity lunch was the biggest purchase on eBay last year.The billionaire investor and Berkshire Hathaway CEO donated the auction proceeds to GLIDE, a homeless charity.Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin S…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Big Data

Need for “Big Data Biology” as Users Create More Data

Speaking at the DigiCert Security Summit in San Diego, DigiCert senior director of business development, Dean Coclin, said that “identity data is created on us all of the time,” but asked how protected it is. He said that as we browse we create more and more…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Biological Warfare

The scariest part about the coronavirus? Misinformation

Yesterday, the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global health emergency, a move that to some felt belated. Though the novel coronavirus only first emerged 31 days ago, there has been a public debate over whether China is taking an appropri…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

What Will Brexit Britain Be Like?

Aston Martin Shares Leap 25% As Billionaire Stroll Buys Big Stake

Membranes Market Worth $8.3 Billion by 2024

Gold inches higher on virus concerns

Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this

Here are 10 things you should know about socialism

Warren Buffett’s $4.6 million crypto lunch was eBay’s priciest purchase in 2019. It still hasn’t happened.

Warren Buffett’s $4.6 million crypto lunch was eBay’s priciest purchase in 2019. It still hasn’t happened.

Need for “Big Data Biology” as Users Create More Data

The scariest part about the coronavirus? Misinformation

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