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Mexico Border Wall

What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years

Amanda Northrop/Vox A big tax cut, unprecedented environmental degradation, Wall Street unleashed, and a whole lot of judges. The scandals, the leaks, the outrages, and the bizarre tweets of the last three years can distract from an important fact about Presi…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma is the richest man in China — here’s how he spends his $38 billion net worth

Following is a transcript of a video. Narrator: Jack Ma is China's richest man, with an estimated worth of $38 billion. The 55-year-old is the cofounder of the e-commerce giant Alibaba. It's China's biggest digital marketplace, responsible for an estimated 8…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Super Heroes

Watchmen, The Boys, and The Tick turn superhero burnout into a TV movement

If you walked into either San Diego or New York Comic Con this year, youd have been bombarded by inescapable superhero marketing. But, unlike previous conventions where the Justice League-led DCEU or the Avengers-focused MCU pushed big reveals, 2019 was all a…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Xi Jinping

China suspends US Navy visits and sanctions American NGOs over bill supporting Hong Kong protests

She said: There is a lot of evidence proving that these NGOs have supported anti-China forces to create chaos in Hong Kong, and encouraged them to engage in extreme violent criminal acts and Hong Kong independence separatist activities. With China having alr…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

BUK-Missile

Russia let MH17 suspect return to eastern Ukraine, say Dutch prosecutors

THE HAGUE (AFP): Dutch prosecutors accused Russia on Monday (Dec 2) of allowing a suspect in the downing of flight MH17 to return to rebel-held eastern Ukraine in defiance of an extradition agreement. Vladimir Tsemakh, an alleged air defence specialist for p…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

eSports

Denmark-based Astralis, the world’s top Counter-Strike team, plans a December 9 IPO on Nasdaq Nordic’s Copenhagen exchange for SMBs, hopes to raise $18M-22M (Nick Rigillo/Bloomberg)

Denmark-based Astralis, the world's top Counter-Strike team, plans a December 9 IPO on Nasdaq Nordic's Copenhagen exchange for SMBs, hopes to raise $18M-22M (Nick Rigillo/Bloomberg)

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Julian Assange

Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief Calls For Australian Politicians To Support Julian Assange

Australian citizen and journalist Julian Assange is currently detained in high security prison as he awaits a case from the US government to extradite him for the release of sensitive material. He spent the last 7-years unable to leave the Ecuadorian embassy …

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Three Russian military police injured in bomb attack on Syrian border: RIA

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Three Russian military police officers were hurt in a blast from a home-made bomb on Monday as they carried out a routine patrol in Syria near the border with Turkey, the RIA news agency cited Russia’s Defense Ministry as saying. The bomb…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Machine Learning

How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story

Its August 2011 in Seattle and Manny is bored. Hes bored trying to shill the latest Windows phone to South America. He wants to build something that he loves. So what does he do? He quits Microsoft, dives into the Seattle underworld of startup hopefuls and…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

Big Data

The AI Frontier of Economic Theory

Until recently, data sets were small and costly, and computers were slow and expensive. So it is natural that as gains in computing power have dramatically reduced these impediments, economists have rushed to use big data and artificial intelligence to help t…

bubmagDecember 2, 2019

What Trump has actually done in his first 3 years

Alibaba cofounder Jack Ma is the richest man in China — here’s how he spends his $38 billion net worth

Watchmen, The Boys, and The Tick turn superhero burnout into a TV movement

China suspends US Navy visits and sanctions American NGOs over bill supporting Hong Kong protests

Russia let MH17 suspect return to eastern Ukraine, say Dutch prosecutors

Denmark-based Astralis, the world’s top Counter-Strike team, plans a December 9 IPO on Nasdaq Nordic’s Copenhagen exchange for SMBs, hopes to raise $18M-22M (Nick Rigillo/Bloomberg)

Wikileaks Editor-In-Chief Calls For Australian Politicians To Support Julian Assange

Three Russian military police injured in bomb attack on Syrian border: RIA

How to Build a SaaS Unicorn: The Outreach Story

The AI Frontier of Economic Theory

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