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Google

Sonos Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Speaker Technology

Accusing the tech giant of blatantly and knowingly infringing on its technology patents, smart-speaker maker Sonos on Tuesday filed two lawsuits against Google after years of quiet talks between the pair apparently fell through. Sonos has filed complaints in…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Venezuela

Venezuela’s Guaido forces his way into parliament, takes oath in darkness

"This is a show of what can happen when we are united," Guaido yelled. The dramatic events follow several days of upheaval after government-backed lawmakers announced they were taking control of the National Assembly in what the opposition has decried as an …

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Star Wars

Here’s the most downloaded PlayStation games of December 2019

While 2020 is now underway, PlayStation has shared the stats of the most downloaded games on the PlayStation Store from last month. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare topped the list, with Grand Theft Auto V and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order right behind it. The Wit…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Biological Warfare

Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76

Jeanne Guillemin, a medical anthropologist and biological warfare expert, died on Nov. 15, 2019, at her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was 76. Guillemin received her bachelors degree in social psychology from Harvard University in 1968 and her doctora…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

NATO

NATO taking ‘some personnel’ out of Iraq due to safety concerns

NATO will take "some personnel" out of Iraq because of the increased danger after the US assassination of an Iranian general triggered revenge threats. The withdrawal is temporary but "the safety of our personnel is paramount," a NATO official said in a stat…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Machine Learning

ExtraHop BrandVoice: Why Faster Is Possible In Cloud Migration

Embracing the new wave of digital transformation is not always a quick process in cybersecurity. While the complexity of the move will always dictate the timeline of cloud migration to some degree, concerns over security and systemic problems can lead to ques…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

New York City

“I Stayed At The Cheapest Airbnb In NYC,” just $30/night

We've been writing about Reverend Billy and his Church of Stop Shopping for nearly 20 years, tracing his remarkable spectacles of anti-consumerism around the world. Aestetix writes, "Our 13th conference is taking place next summer in a brand new location as …

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Electric Scooter

Someone charged hundreds of dollars to my wife’s Chase Freedom Unlimited, and the experience reinforced my decision to use credit cards instead of debit

A couple of months ago I was in Denver visiting my parents. My mom had the kids and I was driving down the road with my wife enjoying a nice fall day. Then her phone buzzed. It was Chase. There was suspicious activity on her account. We opened up her…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

Moon Jae-in Wants Peace with North Korea. There’s Just One Problem.

The Year 2019 was a long and lonely road for South President Moon Jae-in. His poll numbers were dropping. Relations with the United States were rocky, due in part to a time-consuming negotiation about defense cost-sharing on the peninsula (those talks remain …

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Chernobyl

Fukushima’s Exclusion Zone Is Being Overtaken by Wild Animals

The success of wildlife in the Chernobyl exclusion zone has been well documented, most recently in the Netflix series Our Planet. New research shows that wildlife are experiencing a similar flourishing in the Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan. No matter how m…

bubmagJanuary 7, 2020

Sonos Sues Google for Allegedly Stealing Its Speaker Technology

Venezuela’s Guaido forces his way into parliament, takes oath in darkness

Here’s the most downloaded PlayStation games of December 2019

Jeanne Guillemin, biological warfare expert and senior advisor at MIT, dies at 76

NATO taking ‘some personnel’ out of Iraq due to safety concerns

ExtraHop BrandVoice: Why Faster Is Possible In Cloud Migration

“I Stayed At The Cheapest Airbnb In NYC,” just $30/night

Someone charged hundreds of dollars to my wife’s Chase Freedom Unlimited, and the experience reinforced my decision to use credit cards instead of debit

Moon Jae-in Wants Peace with North Korea. There’s Just One Problem.

Fukushima’s Exclusion Zone Is Being Overtaken by Wild Animals

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