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Skateboard

New Balance and Preduce Revamp Numeric Silhouettes With Thai Pillow Patterns

For the first time ever, New Balance‘s Numeric skateboarding line is teaming up with Thai skate brand Preduce for a collaborative pack comprised of two shoes. Growing up skating in the ’90s, Preduce riders wanted to revive the concept of “having one pair of s…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Putin

Russia and Ukraine leaders meet in Paris push to end their conflict

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday met his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, for the first time ever at a Paris summit aimed at agreeing on measures to help end five years of conflict in the east of Ukraine.

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Popular ‘Arcadia Earth’ Exhibit Extends Lease

After the success of his New York-based pop-up museum, “Arcadia Earth,” designed to raise awareness for sustainability and circular design, founder Valentino Vettori is extending the lease till the end of 2020 and taking it to Los Angeles next. An experience…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Economic Bubble

et Ready For An Economic Wake-Up Call This Holiday Season

This article was originally published by Brandon Smith at Alt-Market. If we are to measure the concept of economic recovery in real terms, then we would have to look at the fundamentals (not stock markets) and whether or not they’re improving. Unfortunately…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Recycling

Ships Recycling Bill sails through in Rajya Sabha

New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha on Monday passed the Recycling of Ships Bill, 2019 which will pave the way for safer environment in which ships are recycled in India. The Bill, passed by the Lok Sabha last week, will make for India’s accession to the Hong Kong Co…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Is Alphabet’s New CEO Sundar Pichai Ready for What’s to Come?

To call it the end of an era might be hyperbole. In fact, most investors won't initially even notice Alphabet(NASDAQ:GOOG)(NASDAQ:GOOGL) has a new CEO. But, Sundar Pichai -- previously the head of all things Google but still subject to company founders Larry …

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Non-renewable Resources

Why it’s time for India to change the way it measures growth

By Varun GandhiEngland fought the Dutch three times, with local landowners facing high taxes on their estate’s income to fund the war. William Petty found this quite unjust and decided to compile a set of national accounts for England and Wales, asserting tha…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business—the Reassurances Are Demonstrably False

Facing opposition claims that it will sell off the NHS to the Americans after Brexit, the Conservatives have been eager to reassure us. Quizzed on the threat to the NHS of a US-UK trade deal, and on Labours publication of leaked notes of the trade talks so fa…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

Yellow Vests

France strikes as Macron pushes ahead with pension reforms

France grappled with a fifth day of mass strikes on Monday, with public sector workers like train drivers, teachers and hospital employees staying away from work to protest against the government's proposed pension reforms. In Paris, train, bus and metro …

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

VR

Oculus Quest keeps getting better, adds VR hand tracking this week

2 with 2 posters participating Let's fly through the skies with Oculus Quest hand tracking. (Be warned: this is a 360-degree video within a media app, not a hand-compatible VR game.) So long as you hold your hands in front of the cam…

bubmagDecember 9, 2019

New Balance and Preduce Revamp Numeric Silhouettes With Thai Pillow Patterns

Russia and Ukraine leaders meet in Paris push to end their conflict

Popular ‘Arcadia Earth’ Exhibit Extends Lease

et Ready For An Economic Wake-Up Call This Holiday Season

Ships Recycling Bill sails through in Rajya Sabha

Is Alphabet’s New CEO Sundar Pichai Ready for What’s to Come?

Why it’s time for India to change the way it measures growth

The NHS Is Opening Up to US Business—the Reassurances Are Demonstrably False

France strikes as Macron pushes ahead with pension reforms

Oculus Quest keeps getting better, adds VR hand tracking this week

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