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Hebron

A look at Israel’s settlements ahead of possible annexation

JERUSALEM (AP) President Donald Trump’s plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict paves the way for Israel to annex most or all of its settlements in the occupied West Bank. The settlement enterprise began immediately after Israel captured east Jerusa…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Beyond Meat

For alternative meat manufacturer Beyond Meat, fast food chains giveth and taketh away

Beyond Meat, the publicly traded producer of plant-based protein replacements for meat, is currently giving other companies in the alternative meat space an education in just how finicky appealing to consumer tastes can be. On the same day that the Canadian …

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Hydrogen

World car production may have peaked, says Bosch as it preps for the downturn

STUTTGART, Germany Global automotive production may have peaked, auto supplier Robert Bosch said on Wednesday, announcing job cuts and a review of its business to cope with a 44% drop in full-year operating profit and a downturn in demand for cars. Global au…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Cursor

Pillars Of Eternity II Is Okay On Consoles If You Don’t Mind Long Load Times

Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire is the latest classic-style role-playing game to make its way from PC to console. The console port of the 2018 game comes with a lot of compromises, but some new negatives are offset by the turn-based combat mode that was adde…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Alibaba

7 Observations About AI In 2019

A Turing Award for a new AI Spring After years in the (mostly Canadian) wilderness followed by seven years of plenty, Deep Learning was officially recognized as the “dominant” AI paradigm and “a critical component of computing,” with its three key proponents, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Yoshua Bengio, receiving…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Food Industry

Scientists create sensors with traps for free radicals

Sensor operation diagram. Credit: Tomsk Polytechnic University Scientists of Tomsk Polytechnic University and partners from the Czech Republic and France have designed extremely sensitive sensors for free oxygen-containing radicals that are able to disrupt cell function. According to the researchers, these sensors are an alternative to traditional analytical chemical methods…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Times Square

Krispy Kreme Will Glaze New York City With 6 New Stores

Photo: Krispy Kreme Donuts A decade ago, Krispy Kreme gave up on New York City following its own financial troubles and since then, there has been just one place in the entire city to get their brand of hot glazed doughnuts fresh off a conveyer belt: Penn Station. In 2020,…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Panda

Photos: Berlin zoo’s panda twins take their first public tumbles

BERLIN (AP) — Pit and Paule, the new star attractions at Berlin's zoo, have made their first foray into the limelight, climbing and tumbling around their cub-proof indoor enclosure to the delight of the cameras.Keepers had prepared the glass-enclosed space for the five-month-old twins' public premiere on Wednesday, removing any…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Catalonia

Catalan Elections Carry Risk for Premier Sanchez in Madrid

(Bloomberg) -- Catalonias separatist President Joaquim Torra said he will call early elections, adding a fresh element of instability to Spains national political scene by bringing his two-year-old administration to an end. The Catalan legislature has reache…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

Refugees

‘Now they can chase their dreams’: Bangladesh allows Rohingya children to study

By Ruma PaulDHAKA (Reuters) - Rohingya refugees reacted with surprise and joy on Wednesday to the news that Bangladesh would provide formal education to their children, two and a half years after they were forced to flee Myanmar.Human rights groups have long campaigned for the nearly half a million effectively…

bubmagJanuary 29, 2020

A look at Israel’s settlements ahead of possible annexation

For alternative meat manufacturer Beyond Meat, fast food chains giveth and taketh away

World car production may have peaked, says Bosch as it preps for the downturn

Pillars Of Eternity II Is Okay On Consoles If You Don’t Mind Long Load Times

7 Observations About AI In 2019

Scientists create sensors with traps for free radicals

Krispy Kreme Will Glaze New York City With 6 New Stores

Photos: Berlin zoo’s panda twins take their first public tumbles

Catalan Elections Carry Risk for Premier Sanchez in Madrid

‘Now they can chase their dreams’: Bangladesh allows Rohingya children to study

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