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The Game Awards Will Let You Try Upcoming Games On Steam For A Limited Time

The Game Awards is just a day away, airing live on December 12 at 5:30 PM PT / 8:30 PM ET. Show host Geoff Keighley has announced a brand-new digital consumer festival that lets you play a handful of demos on Steam for free. The Game Festival is billed as…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Brexit

Brexit Bulletin: Watching From Behind the Sofa

Days to General Election: 1 Sign up here to get the Brexit Bulletin in your inbox every weekday. What’s Happening? This is the final Brexit Bulletin before the U.K. goes to the polls. We’ll take a break tomorrow and return on Friday to chew over the result.…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Nukes

America Cannot Stop North Korea’s Ballistic Missiles

Key point (This is from our archive and appeared several years ago): Only an invasion of North Korea would likely stop the regimes missiles for good but that would entail a horrendous war. Both of these following statements are true. (1) Attempts to encoura…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

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Jersey City suspect posted anti-Semitic, anti-police materials online

One of the suspects in yesterdays Jersey City mass shooting that left six dead, including the shooters, posted anti-Semitic and anti-police materials online, the New York Times reports. The shooting began yesterday morning at a cemetery. There, Detective Jos…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Climate Change

Greta Thunberg criticizes world leaders for finding loopholes to avoid action on climate change

Shortly before Greta Thunberg was chosen as Time magazine's 2019 Person of the Year, the 16-year-old delivered a searing speech at a U.N. climate summit in Madrid. In it, Thunberg admonished world leaders for failing to act with the urgency required to fix t…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Little Italy

Meet the Boston mom who makes $400 an hour — eating cannoli with strangers

Some people love their jobs. Some people hate them. Then theres 38-year-old mother of two Paula Noukas. Im living the dream, she jokes. I get perfect strangers from all around the world to sit down and eat together. Her job: Giving food-and-history tours of …

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

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Jersey City Shooters Targeted Jewish Deli In ‘Act Of Terror,’ Officials Say

The two suspects in the Jersey City shooting, which left six people dead during an hours-long gunfight on Tuesday, were specifically targeting a Jewish grocery store as part of an apparent anti-Semitic attack, law enforcement and elected officials said today.…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Plus.ai’s autonomous lorry ‘crosses US in three days’

Image copyrightPlus.aiImage caption The Plus.ai lorry relies on sensors, cameras, radar and Lidar (light detection and ranging) technology and computer vision software underpinned by artificial intelligence A Silicon Valley start-up says it has completed t…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Judge blocks Trump administration plan to use military funds for border wall

A federal judge has issued a nationwide block on the Trump administration's use of $3.6 billion military construction funds to build a wall along the border of the United States and Mexico, declaring that repurposing those funds would be "unlawful." The deci…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

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Jersey City’s mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) The gunmen in a furious firefight that left six people dead in Jersey City clearly targeted a Jewish market, the mayor said Wednesday, fueling growing suspicions the bloodshed was an anti-Semitic attack. Mayor Steven Fulop refused to c…

bubmagDecember 11, 2019

The Game Awards Will Let You Try Upcoming Games On Steam For A Limited Time

Brexit Bulletin: Watching From Behind the Sofa

America Cannot Stop North Korea’s Ballistic Missiles

Jersey City suspect posted anti-Semitic, anti-police materials online

Greta Thunberg criticizes world leaders for finding loopholes to avoid action on climate change

Meet the Boston mom who makes $400 an hour — eating cannoli with strangers

Jersey City Shooters Targeted Jewish Deli In ‘Act Of Terror,’ Officials Say

Plus.ai’s autonomous lorry ‘crosses US in three days’

Judge blocks Trump administration plan to use military funds for border wall

Jersey City’s mayor says gunmen targeted kosher market

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