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Global Warming

The tobacco farmers chasing a sweeter crop

Image copyrightStevia Hellas CooperativeImage caption The Stevia Hellas Cooperative says its sale are rising by 12% per year Seven years ago, a group of Greek farmers stopped growing tobacco and switched to a trendy alternative to sugar - stevia. They mad…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Bubble

How to protect users from harassment in social VR spaces

For the ongoing series, Code Word, were exploring if and how technology can protect individuals against sexual assault and harassment, and how it can help and support survivors. Imagine its your first time entering a social virtual reality experience. You qu…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Korean Peace Talks

End of the deadline: What now for US-North Korea talks?

Kim Jong Un has made it clear there will "never be denuclearisation on the Korean peninsula" if Washington adheres to "its hostile policy", as the North Korean leader's year-end deadline for the Trump government to restart negotiations elapsed. Kim and US Pr…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Solar Storm

EMP law toughens defense from attack – Washington Times

The latest defense authorization bill signed into law by President Trump on Dec. 20 contains new measures requiring the federal government to protect the nation from the danger of nuclear-blast-produced electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attacks and similar solar-pr…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Putin

Pompeo Cancels Ukraine Trip Amid Protests at Embassy in Iraq

The State Department on Monday announced Mr. Pompeos trip, which also had stops planned in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus. The department had said Mr. Pompeo intended to reaffirm U.S. support for Ukraines sovereignty and territorial integrity on h…

bubmagJanuary 2, 2020

Yellow Vests

David Stern death: Former NBA commissioner dies at 77

Former NBA commissioner David Stern has died at 77. Stern, who was at the head of the National Basketball Association for 30 years until 2014, died after suffering a brain haemorrhage on 12 December. He was the longest-serving commissioner of the NBA and pr…

bubmagJanuary 1, 2020

Yellow Vests

Politician punched in antisemitic attack in Venice’s St Mark’s Square

A left-wing politician was the victim of an antisemitic attack in Venice on New Year's Eve. Police are investigating the attack and the city's mayor Luigi Brugnaro has said that such assaults which he described as an incident of fascism would not be tolerate…

bubmagJanuary 1, 2020

NATO

Gen. Wesley Clark Tosses Phone After It Rings During CNN Interview

A ringing phone helped retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark ring in the New Year on CNN though it clearly wasn’t intended. Clark, the former supreme allied commander in Europe for NATO, was discussing Tuesday’s attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq when his phone ra…

bubmagJanuary 1, 2020

Solar Storm

The AI That Looked at the Sun by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

As excerpted from Acausal Drift: An Oral History of Machine Sentience, Second Edition. It all started with the solar flare. I do mean all of it—the story I’m about to tell, and the revolution of sorts that sprang from it, and my life, such as it is. I was s…

bubmagJanuary 1, 2020

Plastic Pollution

Pattnaik wows New Year revellers with sand sculpture

About 90,000 people visited a sand sculpture made by well-known sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik on Puri beach even as lakhs thronged the Lord Jagannath temple a few km away in the coastal Odisha town on the occasion of New Years Day on Wednesday. Mr. Patnaik c…

bubmagJanuary 1, 2020

The tobacco farmers chasing a sweeter crop

How to protect users from harassment in social VR spaces

End of the deadline: What now for US-North Korea talks?

EMP law toughens defense from attack – Washington Times

Pompeo Cancels Ukraine Trip Amid Protests at Embassy in Iraq

David Stern death: Former NBA commissioner dies at 77

Politician punched in antisemitic attack in Venice’s St Mark’s Square

Gen. Wesley Clark Tosses Phone After It Rings During CNN Interview

The AI That Looked at the Sun by Filip Hajdar Drnovšek Zorko

Pattnaik wows New Year revellers with sand sculpture

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