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Global Warming

The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires

On 1 January, the air in Canberra was the worst of any city in the world. With unprecedented bush fires raging nearby, a thick blanket of smoke smothered Australia’s capital for weeks, sending a surge of residents to the hospital with breathing problems. The toxic haze got so bad that…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Global Warming

The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires

On 1 January, the air in Canberra was the worst of any city in the world. With unprecedented bush fires raging nearby, a thick blanket of smoke smothered Australia’s capital for weeks, sending a surge of residents to the hospital with breathing problems. The toxic haze got so bad that…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Giphy

Mobile AR App Octi Evolves into Social Network via Facial Recognition Tech

In a world full of augmented reality camera effects apps, one app is going in a more social direction.On Tuesday, a rebooted version of Octi (which first debuted in 2018) dropped on the Apple App Store. Now, instead of merely adding AR effects to photos and videos, the app uses…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Yemen Civil War

The MBS–Bezos Hack Could Be a Ticking Time Bomb

In 2017, when Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud passed the reigns of power to his son, millennial Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the thirst was evident. The Wall Street Journals editorial board declared the political sands are shifting, while New Yor…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Holocaust

Survey on Americans’ Holocaust Knowledge

Survey on Americans' Holocaust Knowledge

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Jamal Khashoggi

Who honestly has a crown prince in their threat model? UN report officially fingers Saudi royal as Bezos hacker

The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammad bin Salman, has been officially fingered as the man responsible for hacking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s iPhone X, causing a massive stir in diplomatic circles. Following a report yesterday that Bezos’s smartphone had been compromised by a malware-poisoned video sent directly by bin…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Obamacare

Investor: Health stocks a buy with Obamacare here to stay, Medicare-for-All not likely

Health care stocks, which have been volatile in the run-up to the 2020 elections, are worth consideration even in light of uncertainty about a single-payer system, an investor told Yahoo Finance.Ben Phillips, chief investment officer at EventShares, sees value in health care — along with other government policy-sensitive sectors like…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Nuclear Disarmament

China has ‘no intention to participate’ in arms talks

China said Wednesday it has "no intention to participate" in trilateral arms control negotiations, a day after Washington called on Beijing to join its nuclear arms talks with Moscow. The United States has held two rounds of talks with Russia, aimed at reducing misunderstandings around critical security issues since the…

bubmagJanuary 23, 2020

Paris

French president loses his cool in argument with Israeli guards in Jerusalem

PARIS -- French President Emmanuel Macron got into a testy exchange with Israeli security guards at the Church of Saint Anne in Jerusalem on Wednesday, accusing the guards of violating rules preventing them from entering what is considered French territory.…

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

Astroturfing

The Yang Gang and Its Bots

While looking for something else I fell into a nest of automated accounts pretending to be Andrew Yang supporters. Photo credit Gage Skidmore How It Started: The MAGA Bots For the past month or so I have been building software to find, track and visualize …

bubmagJanuary 22, 2020

The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires

The race to decipher how climate change influenced Australia’s record fires

Mobile AR App Octi Evolves into Social Network via Facial Recognition Tech

The MBS–Bezos Hack Could Be a Ticking Time Bomb

Survey on Americans’ Holocaust Knowledge

Who honestly has a crown prince in their threat model? UN report officially fingers Saudi royal as Bezos hacker

Investor: Health stocks a buy with Obamacare here to stay, Medicare-for-All not likely

China has ‘no intention to participate’ in arms talks

French president loses his cool in argument with Israeli guards in Jerusalem

The Yang Gang and Its Bots

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