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Moon Mission

Japanese billionaire seeks significant other for SpaceX moon trip

As matchmaking endeavors go, this has to be one of the weirder ones. Wealthy Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa announced on Sunday that hes searching for a significant other to accompany him on a trip to the moon in 2023. The moon mission is being organi…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

GitHub – daviddao/awful-ai: Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI – hoping to raise awareness

Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness to its misuses in society Artificial intelligence in its current state is unfair, easily susceptible to attacks and notoriously difficult to control. Nevertheless, mor…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Brexit

Brussels Edition: Seeking a Trade Reset

Photo Illustration: Tom Hall/Bloomberg Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every weekday morning. As the U.S. and China prepare to sign t…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Censored Internet

Gibson Dunn Offers 2019 Year-End FCPA Update

2019 was, by many measures, the most significant year ever in Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement. More than $2.6 billion in corporate fines sets a new high-water mark, driven by the two largest corporate resolutions in the statutes history. Fift…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Panda

Canadian-born panda twins return to China

Canadian-born panda twins, Jia Panpan and Jia Yueyue, flew to Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, early Sunday morning. The twins will be kept in quarantine for a month at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding. The twin cubs …

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Yellow Vests

Trump Backs Down; Iran Conflict Continues

Trump blinked. After threatening to bomb military and cultural sites in Iran, President Donald Trump has apparently backed down on further escalation in his quasi-war with Iran. He tried to spin his decision as a US victory, claiming his administrati…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Korean War

Faith Consolo and “The False Self”

Julie Satow has written a riveting exposé of Faith Hope Consolo who was a glamorous figure in late 20th-century world of New York City real estate. (Full disclosure: Julie Satow is my niece.) Ms. Consolo told the world she was born into the real estate busin…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Alexander von Humboldt

Colombia thwarts bid to kill ex-FARC rebel leader Timochenko

Colombian police have said they foiled an assassination attempt on Rodrigo Londono, better known as Timochenko, the former top Marxist FARC rebel leader. General Oscar Atehortua, director of the Latin American country's national police, said Sunday officers …

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Geely

Aston Martin may get much-needed cash from Geely

It looks like Geely is looking to dip its hands into another prominent automaker. The Financial Times reported that Geely is in talks with the management and investors of Aston Martin, with the possibility of pumping much-needed cash into the luxury British c…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Chinese Economy

Wold Bank’s Raiser Discusses China’s Economy Policies

Jan.12 -- Martin Raiser, country director for China and Mongolia as well as director for Korea at the World Bank, talks about the challenges the Chinese economy faces. He speaks on the sidelines of the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong with David Ingles on "…

bubmagJanuary 13, 2020

Japanese billionaire seeks significant other for SpaceX moon trip

Brussels Edition: Seeking a Trade Reset

Gibson Dunn Offers 2019 Year-End FCPA Update

Canadian-born panda twins return to China

Trump Backs Down; Iran Conflict Continues

Faith Consolo and “The False Self”

Colombia thwarts bid to kill ex-FARC rebel leader Timochenko

Aston Martin may get much-needed cash from Geely

Wold Bank’s Raiser Discusses China’s Economy Policies

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