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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

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

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

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

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