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Mexico Border Wall

11 Chinese migrants found hiding inside furniture at US-Mexico border

Federal agents have arrested the driver of a moving truck at the southern United States border after finding nearly a dozen Chinese migrants hiding inside furniture within the vehicle. U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers inspected the truck when it arriv…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Nancy Pelosi Announces Agreement On New North American Trade Pact

WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday announced agreement on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win on the very same day that Democrats announced their impeachment charges against him. Th…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Peter Handke controversy: Several countries to boycott Nobel ceremony over literature winner

Several countries are boycotting the Nobel ceremony to protest the Academys choice to award the literature prize to Peter Handke. The Austrian author has been criticised for his stance on the wars in former Yugoslavia and on late Serbian leader Slobodan Milo…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Facebook Portal TV Expands Streaming Options, Amazon Video Goes Live

Portal TV Watch Together feature with Facebook Watch Facebook Tis the season to be streaming and as such Facebook has added more premium content to Portal. The December 10th holiday update brings Portal TV's content partners to 16 and includes:

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Singapore

Bangkok plants Asia’s biggest rooftop farm

Bangkoks Thammasat University, one of the oldest in Thailand, has a new claim to fame: Asia's largest urban rooftop farm. The 7,000 sq mt (75,000 sq ft) space mimics rice terraces in northern Thailand and can help curb some of the impacts of climate change, s…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

VR

Oculus Link beta is ready to turn your Quest into a PC VR headset

If you expect to use the Quest frequently with your PC, you'll have a better cable option very shortly. Oculus plans to ship a 16.4-foot custom optical fiber cable that will deliver "maximum throughput" while giving you more freedom than most existing USB cab…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

NATO

Pensacola naval base gunman complained when a Navy instructor nickname him ‘Porn Stash’

The Saudi national who opened fire at a Navy base in Florida was outraged at his peers who slapped him with the nickname "Porn Stash." Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, 21, opened fire, killing three and wounding seven, at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Flor…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Air Pollution

Sydney Is Choking on the Most Toxic Air on Earth

Australia has been on fire for more than a month, but the flames are hardly the only impact. Smoke from Australias bush fires engulfed Sydney in a smoke on Tuesday, creating the most toxic air on the planet. Scientists measure air quality using an index that…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Facebook Portal gets WhatsApp, Amazon Prime Video, Crave music

Facebook has rolled out a major update to its family of Portal smart displays that adds new features and services, including, most notably, WhatsApp. Now, you can log into Portal with their WhatsApp account to make video calls and access features like Story …

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

Big Data

Leveraging Big Data that Data Websites Should Track

Creating a product that solves customers problems is not just a matter of intuition, expertise, or brainstorming. Often, marketers get so overly confident in their knowledge of the market. A marketer may believe that theres always the option to look at the st…

bubmagDecember 10, 2019

11 Chinese migrants found hiding inside furniture at US-Mexico border

Nancy Pelosi Announces Agreement On New North American Trade Pact

Peter Handke controversy: Several countries to boycott Nobel ceremony over literature winner

Facebook Portal TV Expands Streaming Options, Amazon Video Goes Live

Bangkok plants Asia’s biggest rooftop farm

Oculus Link beta is ready to turn your Quest into a PC VR headset

Pensacola naval base gunman complained when a Navy instructor nickname him ‘Porn Stash’

Sydney Is Choking on the Most Toxic Air on Earth

Facebook Portal gets WhatsApp, Amazon Prime Video, Crave music

Leveraging Big Data that Data Websites Should Track

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