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Boris Johnson

‘New dawn’ Brexit to do list: money, charming Trump and making friends

LONDON (Reuters) - The United Kingdom leaves the European Union at 2300 GMT on Friday but Prime Minister Boris Johnson has a bulging to-do list for what he has cast as a “new dawn” for the country. Below are the biggest issues he has to deal with. TRADE As soon…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Drones

U.S. Department of Interior Grounding All Drones

The Department of Interior is grounding all non-emergency drones due to security concerns: The order comes amid a spate of warnings and bans at multiple government agencies, including the Department of Defense, about possible vulnerabilities in Chinese-made drone systems that could be allowing Beijing to conduct espionage. The Army banned…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Electric Car

Tesla Management Talks Cybertruck, Model Y, Coronavirus, and More

Don't miss these must-read quotes from the electric-car company's fourth-quarter earnings call. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) crushed it in Q4. Investors cheered the company's better-than-expected adjusted earnings per share, $1 billion of free cash flow, and announcement that the Model Y is already in production. Shares surged on the news, climbing 10%…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Filter Bubble

OSMF-Vorstand kodifiziert englischsprachige und anglo-amerikanische kulturelle Dominanz in der OSMF

Der OSMF-Vorstand hat gestern in seiner monatlichen Vorstandssitzung die Annahme eines neuen Grundwerte-Dokuments beschlossen, nachdem dieses zweieinhalb Stunden vorher den OSMF-Mitgliedern vorgestellt worden war. Ich möchte hier den Inhalt dieses Dokumentes kritisch beleuchten. Warum mach ich dies auf Deutsch? Zum einen, weil ich vor einiger Zeit beschlossen habe, Diskussionen zum…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Brexit

Brexit day: What you need to know about traveling between the UK and EU

This post contains references to products from one or more of our advertisers. We may receive compensation when you click on links to those products. Terms apply to the offers listed on this page. For an explanation of our Advertising Policy, visit this page. After years of back and forth,…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Astroturfing

Are these suspicious Pete Buttigieg stan accounts legit?

It started with a CNN town hall in March. Thirty-seven-year-old South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg told CNN’s Jake Tapper to call him “Mayor Pete,” then proceeded to charm audiences by leveling calm, measured insults at Vice President Mike Pence. “At least he believes in our institutions, and he’s not…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Elon Musk

The Morning After: Apple finishes rebuilding its US maps

The next step? Remapping Europe.Apple is officially done rebuilding its maps in the US Apple Maps didn't launch with success. Comparatively skeletal, its competition did everything better. But Apple didn't give up. It has been rebuilding the most fundamental…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Belfast

A year after Bank of Valletta ‘cyber heist’, cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues

Nearly a year after Malta's Bank of Valletta (BOV) yanked itself from the internet amid a "cyber intrusion", Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA) has made three arrests. Around £800k was transferred to a number of accounts during the 2019 "cyber heist", acc…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

Anharmonic Lattice Vibrations in Small‐Molecule Organic Semiconductors

Small‐molecule semiconducting crystals are studied extensively due to their potential for (opto)electronic applications such as light‐emitting diodes, field‐effect transistors, and solar cells.1-8 Linear oligoacenes are an archetypical family of such organic crystals that serve as an excellent testbed to study intrinsic properties of π‐conjugated solids. This is due to their…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Doping in Cycling

Lance Armstrong’s former manager sets up sports management company

Johan Bruyneel ties up a few loose ends before the start of stage one. Johan Bruyneel, the former team manager of US Postal, Astana and RadioShack, who helped guide Lance Amstrong to seven Tour de France titles before they were struck from the record books for doping, has launched a…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

‘New dawn’ Brexit to do list: money, charming Trump and making friends

U.S. Department of Interior Grounding All Drones

Tesla Management Talks Cybertruck, Model Y, Coronavirus, and More

OSMF-Vorstand kodifiziert englischsprachige und anglo-amerikanische kulturelle Dominanz in der OSMF

Brexit day: What you need to know about traveling between the UK and EU

Are these suspicious Pete Buttigieg stan accounts legit?

The Morning After: Apple finishes rebuilding its US maps

A year after Bank of Valletta ‘cyber heist’, cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues

Anharmonic Lattice Vibrations in Small‐Molecule Organic Semiconductors

Lance Armstrong’s former manager sets up sports management company

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