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Big Data

Cartoon: Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey Data Science…

For the Thanksgiving holiday, we revisit a classic KDnuggets Thanksgiving cartoon, which takes a look at what could be predicted from data trends? A Turkey Data Scientist: "I don't like the look of this. Searches for gravy and turkey stuffing are going thr…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

VR

Even Half-Life: Alyx wasn’t enough to convince Xbox boss of console VR

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images What’s it going to take to convince Xbox boss Phil Spencer to make a VR-compatible Xbox? Earlier this week, Spencer said in an interview with Stevivor that “nobody’s asking for VR” on Microsoft’s consoles, and has foll…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

eSports

Streaming startup Genvid nets $27 million to expand ‘dev-grade’ broadcasting platform

Game streaming startup Genvid has secured $27 million in Series B funding to create new tools for its "developer-grade" broadcasting platform and hire more staff. As reported by VentureBeat, the funding round was led by Galaxy Interactive and means the compa…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

New York City

The Death of the Black Utopia

Classical Philosophy in the Park The question of how Seneca Village got its name remains unresolved. Nevertheless, the argument that villagers derived it from the Native American tribe seems unlikely, given that Manhattan was not Seneca territory. Leslie M. …

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

Brexit

The EU’s University in Exile

The arbitrary ouster of Central European University from Hungary highlights two realities about the European Union. First, the EU has relatively little power to protect the non-economic rights of the bloc's citizens, and, second, leading European politicians …

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

Silk Road

The life of Xi Jinping, China’s authoritarian leader who is fighting Trump in the trade war, and presides over the mass oppression of the Uighur Muslim minority

china xi jinping Nicolas Asfouri/Pool Photo via AP Xi Jinping is the current president of the People's Republic of China and has been in power since 2013. During the early years of his leadership, Xi became known for launching a nationwide…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

VR

Is the Valve Index the best high-end VR headset?

As VR becomes more and more mainstream, a key to its success will be the choice of headsets available. On the entry-level end is the HTC Vive, at $99. On the upper end is Valve's Index, which features two RGB LCDs running at 1,440 x 1,600 pixels, capable of a…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

NATO spat: Macron slams Ankara’s operation in Syria, Turkish FM calls him ‘sponsor of terrorism’

French President Emmanuel Macron warned Turkey on Thursday that it is alienating allies, and should not depend on support from the multinational alliance while also carrying out widely-condemned military operations against Kurds in northern Syria as a “fait a…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

China's Strategy

World’s Best Go Player Retires As He Can’t Win Against AI, ‘An Entity That Can’t Be Defeated’

Artificial intelligence (AI) is definitely the thing to look for in tech today. It is advancing at an accelerating rate and is simplifying complex things in life. And now, it has made a legendary Go player literally quit the arena forever. Go is a Chinese st…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

Boeing 737max

Business this week

In the biggest-ever takeover in the luxury-goods industry, LVMH, a French global conglomerate, announced its acquisition of Tiffany, an American jeweller founded in 1837 and known for its flagship store on Fifth Avenue in New York. LVMH is paying $16.9bn, mor…

bubmagNovember 28, 2019

Cartoon: Thanksgiving, Big Data, and Turkey Data Science…

Even Half-Life: Alyx wasn’t enough to convince Xbox boss of console VR

Streaming startup Genvid nets $27 million to expand ‘dev-grade’ broadcasting platform

The Death of the Black Utopia

The EU’s University in Exile

The life of Xi Jinping, China’s authoritarian leader who is fighting Trump in the trade war, and presides over the mass oppression of the Uighur Muslim minority

Is the Valve Index the best high-end VR headset?

NATO spat: Macron slams Ankara’s operation in Syria, Turkish FM calls him ‘sponsor of terrorism’

World’s Best Go Player Retires As He Can’t Win Against AI, ‘An Entity That Can’t Be Defeated’

Business this week

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