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Belt and Road

NATO is finally talking about China, and there are 3 big problems it has to address

Leaders of the NATO alliance countries, and its secretary general, join Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles the Prince of Wales, for a group picture during a reception at Buckingham Palace in London, Tuesday Dec. 3, 2019, as they gathered to mark …

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Hrant Dink

Resolution recognizing Armenian genocide blocked in U.S. Senate

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Senator Kevin Cramer prevented the U.S. Senate from voting on a resolution on Thursday that would recognize as a genocide the mass killings of Armenians a century ago, saying it was not an appropriate time to pass legislation…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Alibaba

SoftBank ‘no bailout’ pledge tested as tech stress spreads – Nikkei Asian Review

TOKYO -- When Masayoshi Son meets with Alibaba founder Jack Ma in Tokyo on Friday, two thoughts are likely to be uppermost in the mind of the SoftBank CEO: debt and money. Alibaba Group Holding, in which SoftBank Group owns an over $130 billion stake, is the…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Mia Farrow Celebrates Illegal Alien Jumping ‘Trump’s Stupid Wall’ as ‘Triumph of Human Spirit’

Actress Mia Farrow called an illegal alien who jumped a wall along the United States-Mexico border a “triumph of the human spirit.” On Thursday, Farrow posted a screenshot of a viral video that showed an illegal alien climbing over a wall in the El Centro, C…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Filter Bubble

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Inherent Blackness of Meme Culture

We often think of memes as units of culture without context. A funny picture, a viral video, a joke tweet all of which are universally applicable to any demographic. But thats not actually how the internet works. On platforms like Twitter, for instance, and V…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Barack Obama

Good deal on Kindle Unlimited

When I was younger, I would feel so badly about abandoning a book that didn’t grab me, I’d force myself to slog through it until the bitter end. Then I realized that there are only so many books I’ll have time to read in my lifetime so it’s better to…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Blockchain

A blockchain expert is accused of helping North Korea’s leaders. But what would they want from him?

Virgil Griffith must have known there was a chance that his decision to attend a cryptocurrency conference in North Korea was going to land him in trouble. Now hes experiencing firsthand the heavy force of US sanctions against the country: he faces up to 20 y…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

SpaceX launches beer malt, caring robot and ‘mighty mice’ – OttawaMatters.com

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. SpaceX launched a 3-ton shipment to the International Space Station on Thursday, including mighty mice for a muscle study, a robot sensitive to astronauts' emotions and a miniature version of a brewery's malt house. The Dragon capsule al…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Korean War

Jonathan Majors To Co-Pilot Black Label’s Korean War Pic ‘Devotion’

EXCLUSIVE:Jonathan Majors, who is racking up awards noms for this year’s indie hit The Last Black Man in San Francisco, has been set to star opposite Glen Powell in Devotion, Black Label Media’s movie based on the true story of two elite U.S. Navy fighter pil…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

New, Emotionally Intelligent Robot CIMON 2 Heads to Space Station

Another robot with artificial intelligence is headed for the International Space Station (ISS). The astronaut assistant known as CIMON 2 just launched for the orbiting lab aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule , which lifted off today (Dec. 5) from…

bubmagDecember 5, 2019

NATO is finally talking about China, and there are 3 big problems it has to address

Resolution recognizing Armenian genocide blocked in U.S. Senate

SoftBank ‘no bailout’ pledge tested as tech stress spreads – Nikkei Asian Review

Mia Farrow Celebrates Illegal Alien Jumping ‘Trump’s Stupid Wall’ as ‘Triumph of Human Spirit’

Lauren Michele Jackson on the Inherent Blackness of Meme Culture

Good deal on Kindle Unlimited

A blockchain expert is accused of helping North Korea’s leaders. But what would they want from him?

SpaceX launches beer malt, caring robot and ‘mighty mice’ – OttawaMatters.com

Jonathan Majors To Co-Pilot Black Label’s Korean War Pic ‘Devotion’

New, Emotionally Intelligent Robot CIMON 2 Heads to Space Station

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