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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

CCTV

Woman denies being negligent over Nora Anne’s death

SEREMBAN: A 76-year-old woman facing a civil suit from the parents of deceased Irish teenager Nora Anne Quoirin (pic) has denied being negligent over the girl's death. The woman, Helen Marion Todd, also denied that she was the operator or proprietor of The Dusun holiday resort, where the Quoirin family…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Cold War

Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds

I have a vivid memory of playing on a rocket ship playground in Los Angeles about 45 years ago. I've often wondered about what the playground really looked like, because I remember a tall, gleaming, multi-story rocket ready to take off. Thank you for posting these!posted by Crankatator at 4:32…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Rijksmuseum

Hacker snoops on art sale and walks away with $3.1m, victims fight each other in court

Hackers intercepted talks between an art dealer and a Dutch museum to scam the museum out of millions, and while they walked away with their ill-begotten proceeds, the victims are now fighting over who is responsible. As reported by Bloomberg, London-based veteran art dealer Simon Dickinson and Rijksmuseum Twenthe were…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Free Internet

Mexicans Building a Feminist Internet Face Challenges

When Patricia Azcagorta ran as a candidate for mayor of Caborca, Sonora, in Mexico in 2018, a video was circulated on social media of a woman dancing in her underwear, together with photos of Azcagorta, and messages accusing her of being a stripper. Using in…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Venezuela

Coronavirus Live Update: Countries bar infected citizens from returning homeland

The deadly novel coronavirus has so far spread to at least 22 countries, including Germany, Australia and the United States. The US State Department told Americans not to travel to China as the first case of person-to-person transmission reported in the country on Thursday. China has reported an increase in…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

Paris

Factbox: Countries evacuating nationals from China virus areas

(Reuters) - A growing number of countries around the world are evacuating or planning to evacuate diplomatic staff and citizens from parts of China hit by the new coronavirus. A chartered Boeing 747-400 plane carrying carrying evacuated South Koreans from Wuhan, the epicenter of a virus outbreak in China, arrives…

bubmagJanuary 31, 2020

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

Woman denies being negligent over Nora Anne’s death

Cold War era rocket ship playgrounds

Hacker snoops on art sale and walks away with $3.1m, victims fight each other in court

Mexicans Building a Feminist Internet Face Challenges

Coronavirus Live Update: Countries bar infected citizens from returning homeland

Factbox: Countries evacuating nationals from China virus areas

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