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Trade War

Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US

Chinas foreign ministry labeled Canadas detainment of smartphone giant Huaweis CFO as a serious political matter, and again called for her release ahead of the first extradition hearing later today, Reuters reports. Canadian authorities arrested Meng Wanzhou…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

The Queen

Is Harry Still A Prince? & Other Questions About Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s New Roles, Answered

Photo: Pool/Samir Hussein/WireImage.What does it mean to give up royal titles? Will Harry get a last name? Is he still in line for the throne? Here are the answers to these burning questions and everything else you need to know about what will happen now that Harry and Meghan are…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Fortnite

Fortnite and TikTok Partner to Host Emote Contest

Source: Epic GamesWhat you need to knowFortnite and TikTok are partnering together to create the Emote Royale Contest. Players can create their own personalized dance and upload it to TikTok, with the chance to have their dance animated into the game. Other prizes include 25,000 V-Bucks, real-life swag, and more.…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Elon Musk

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai explains why AI needs to be regulated

Artificial intelligence should be regulated. This is the stance of Alphabet (parent company of Google) CEO Sundar Pichai, expressed in the form of an op-ed article in the Financial Times Monday. Pichai calls AI "one of the most promising new technologies,…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Star Wars

HBO Probably Won’t Make a Second Season of Watchmen

Hello, welcome to an all-new edition of The Monitor, WIREDs entertainment news roundup. Whats been happening the last few days? Lots of television news. Lets dig in. Have you been wondering what happened to Regina King after she stepped into that pool in the…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Moravec‘s Paradox

12 AI Milestones: 1. Shakey The Robot

Developed at the Artificial Intelligence Center of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) from 1966 to 1972, SHAKEY was the worlds first mobile intelligent robot. According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Silk Road

‘Kissinger’s Nightmare’: How Russo-Chinese Arctic Cooperation May Upset US Control Over the Sea

Russia and China are stepping up cooperation in the Arctic region, which is now regarded by Washington as the "principle challenge" to US security and prosperity. Glenn Diesen, a Norwegian author and academic, explains how Russia's Northern Sea Route (NSR) ma…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Times Square

Determined Crowds Braved Snow To Join Fourth Women’s March

When hundreds of thousands of people flooded the streets of Manhattan for the first Women’s March in January 2017 and marched in tandem with millions of people across the country, the demonstration represented part of the collective, visceral reaction to President Donald Trump taking office. The diminished but determined crowds…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Exoskeleton

Tesla Cybertruck is ‘incredibly cheap’ to bring to production, says manufacturing expert

Tesla Cybertruck could be “incredibly cheap” to bring to production, thanks to its novel body technology, according to a manufacturing expert. Sandy Munro is a manufacturing expert who rose to fame in the Tesla community after his breakdown of an early Model 3. At first, he made many unfavorable comments…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Nuclear Disarmament

Trump Should Offer Diplomatic Ties to North Korea – but Insist on Talking about Human Rights

The U.S. also came under fire. A foreign ministry spokesman criticized Washington’s “malicious words” and “grave political provocation.” Pyongyang warned that the U.S. would “pay dearly” for its statements, which “will only produce a result of further aggravating the already tense situation on the Korean peninsula.” Despite the DPRK’s fulminations, the Trump…

bubmagJanuary 20, 2020

Huawei CFO in Canadian court on fraud charges, faces extradition to US

Is Harry Still A Prince? & Other Questions About Prince Harry & Meghan Markle’s New Roles, Answered

Fortnite and TikTok Partner to Host Emote Contest

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai explains why AI needs to be regulated

HBO Probably Won’t Make a Second Season of Watchmen

12 AI Milestones: 1. Shakey The Robot

‘Kissinger’s Nightmare’: How Russo-Chinese Arctic Cooperation May Upset US Control Over the Sea

Determined Crowds Braved Snow To Join Fourth Women’s March

Tesla Cybertruck is ‘incredibly cheap’ to bring to production, says manufacturing expert

Trump Should Offer Diplomatic Ties to North Korea – but Insist on Talking about Human Rights

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