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Blockchain

UN Pilot In Mongolia Uses Blockchain To Help Farmers Deliver Sustainable Cashmere

Two young Mongolian children play with the goats that provide cashmere. Photo provided by Convergence.tech With wild price changes in cryptocurrencies, sometimes it can be helpful to get back to use cases: areas where distributed nodes and decentralization…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Privacy Concerns

How CES keeps gadget enthusiasm going amid the backlash against Silicon Valley – CNET

The Google Assistant ride at CES 2019 -- those were the days. James Martin/CNET This story is part of CES 2020, complete coverage of the showroom floor for the hottest new tech gadgets around. CES is a celebration of the latest and greatest in tech, with n…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Grexit

How Brexit grew from an awkward encounter on the campaign trail 10 years ago

Gordon Brown had been heckled during a TV interview at an event in Rochdale, a Liberal Democrat seat that Labour was trying to win back in the 2010 election. After the interview, the prime ministers aides brought Gillian Duffy, the 65-year-old heckler, to mee…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Xenophobia threatens to undermine Sudan’s revolution

Sudan's new rulers are celebrating the first anniversary of the popular revolt that led to the military overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir and their rise to power. Politicians from the transitional government led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok are spendi…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Venezuela

New shipping rules expected to impact Canadian oilsands industry in 2020 – Global News

A new wave of cold water is about to hit Canada’s much-buffeted oilsands industry but whether it will be a perfect storm or a tempest in a teapot is yet to be seen. Tighter pollution rules by the International Maritime Organization are set to take effect Jan…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Trade War

Huiyao Wang: US-China trade war ‘unprecedented’ and ‘alarming’

Huiyao Wang: US-China trade war 'unprecedented' and 'alarming'

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

Japan police find human remains in boat suspected from North Korea: Coast Guard

PHOTO: Reuters TOKYO: Japanese police found the remains of at least five people in a wooden boat suspected to be from North Korea on the coast of one of Japans outlying islands on Saturday, a Coast Guard official said. Police made the discovery in the wood…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Monsanto

As trade settles, US, China veering on tech – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

If President Donald Trump's trade deal with Beijing works as planned, Chinese purchases from American manufacturers and farmers will more than double over the next two years and American investors will finally be welcome to own some of China's financial servi…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Big Data

A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)

As you can see, the ascp client performs over 200x faster than FTP, and can download the whole file in 9 seconds. Its pretty magical. Its also necessary for our projects basic feasibility. Without Aspera, it would take us months to years to download the mill…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

Protectionism

Exports to rebound, growth subdued in 2020

The continuous contraction in India's exports is likely to stop next year but the rate of growth will be subdued on account of the uncertain global trade situation due to rising protectionism. Commerce Secretary Anup Wadhawan said the current slowdown in exp…

bubmagDecember 28, 2019

UN Pilot In Mongolia Uses Blockchain To Help Farmers Deliver Sustainable Cashmere

How CES keeps gadget enthusiasm going amid the backlash against Silicon Valley – CNET

How Brexit grew from an awkward encounter on the campaign trail 10 years ago

Xenophobia threatens to undermine Sudan’s revolution

New shipping rules expected to impact Canadian oilsands industry in 2020 – Global News

Huiyao Wang: US-China trade war ‘unprecedented’ and ‘alarming’

Japan police find human remains in boat suspected from North Korea: Coast Guard

As trade settles, US, China veering on tech – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

A Desperate Plea for a Free Software Alternative to Aspera (2018)

Exports to rebound, growth subdued in 2020

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