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Nukes

US considers sending thousands of troops to Middle East to deter Iran

Washington (CNN)The Pentagon is considering sending thousands more troops to the Middle East as part of an effort to beef up air defense capabilities in the face of Iranian moves that include its recent transfer of short-range missiles into Iraq, CNN has lear…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Man built fake border to trick migrants: Officials

Russian authorities have detained a man accused of building a fake fence in the woods close to the countrys border with Finland in order to trick a group of migrants into believing he had smuggled them across into the European Union. The man set up fake bord…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Hiroshima

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Everything You Should Know About Doctor Manhattan

HBOs Watchmen, which comes from the mind of Lost creator Damon Lindelof and is adapted from the late 80s DC Comics Watchmen series authored by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons, has, in short, taken pop culture by storm. For longtime fans of the ser…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Bubble

Goodbye

Three years after anime fan Dr. Steve Brule told me in a Kotaku comment to fuck off after I wrote the blog Girls Fight With Their Butts And Boobs In This Wretched New Anime, finally, I am taking his advice. Thanks, Doc. Today is my last day at Kotaku. I…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

A new video shows that a sick 16-year-old migrant died in a Border Patrol cell and lay motionless for 4 hours before agents realized he was dead

Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez, a 16-year-old Guatemalan migrant, was seriously ill when immigration agents put him in a small South Texas holding cell with another sick boy on the afternoon of May 19. A few hours earlier, a nurse practitioner at the Bord…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Black Hole

Make your website a black hole to big tech

Google analytics is present on at least 70% of all websites on the internet. So, not only does Google know what most of the world is searching for through its search engine, it also knows what most people are doing on most sites once they click links from the…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An intelligent robot equipped with emotion-sensing voice detectors was headed to the International Space Station after launching from Florida on Thursday, becoming the latest artificial intelligence-powered astronaut workmate in orbit. …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Singapore

AM BestTV: Roles of Brokers, Underwriters Are ‘Blurring,’ Says AM Best Senior Director

OLDWICK, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In this AMBestTV episode, Catherine Thomas, senior director of analytics, AM Best, said the roles of brokers and underwriters are blurring in the London market as participants look to improve efficiency and drive down costs. Cl…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

New York City

Bloomberg Proposes Sweeping Gun Agenda, Including Federal Licensing

Mr. Bloombergs endorsement of a federal licensing policy is likely to ripple widely in the world of gun-control advocacy, where many groups, including those funded by Mr. Bloomberg, have focused chiefly on tightening background checks. The idea of a national …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Yellow Vests

Hundreds of thousands march as France paralysed by strike

PARIS: A nationwide strike brought much of France to a standstill on Thursday (Dec 5) to protest the government's planned overhaul of the pension system, one of President Emmanuel Macron most ambitious reforms. The CGT union said 1.5 million people hit the s…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

US considers sending thousands of troops to Middle East to deter Iran

Man built fake border to trick migrants: Officials

HBO’s ‘Watchmen’: Everything You Should Know About Doctor Manhattan

Goodbye

A new video shows that a sick 16-year-old migrant died in a Border Patrol cell and lay motionless for 4 hours before agents realized he was dead

Make your website a black hole to big tech

Emotion-sensing robot launches to assist space station astronauts

AM BestTV: Roles of Brokers, Underwriters Are ‘Blurring,’ Says AM Best Senior Director

Bloomberg Proposes Sweeping Gun Agenda, Including Federal Licensing

Hundreds of thousands march as France paralysed by strike

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