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Riots

The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims

After bloody race riots rocked Chinas far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official fluent in Uighur, the language of the local Turkic Muslim minority. Now, newly revealed, c…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Tesla’s Cybertruck Will Have Solar Charging Options

The Tesla Cybertruck will have a solar charging option that can extend its driving range 15 miles a day, Chief Executive Elon Musk said Friday. On top of that, "fold-out solar wings" could increase that extra range to 30 to 40 miles per day, he said. "Would l…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Drones

Disney Is Basically Just Trying to Make Real X-Wings For Galaxy’s Edge Now

Star Wars: Galaxys Edgeis at the cutting edge (heh) of reality imitating fiction, with Disney spending massive sums of money on converting a little pocket of its park to looking, feeling, tasting, and smelling like its really a part of the Star Wars universe,…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Eamonn Sweeney: ‘Forever a Tour bridesmaid, Poulidor was first when it came to winning hearts of cycling fans’

The greatest runner-up of all-time died 11 days ago at the age of 83. His name was Raymond Poulidor, he finished second three times and third five times in the Tour de France and the French loved him as much as any sportsman has ever been loved in that countr…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Climate Change

Climate Planners Use VR to Show Communities How Sea-Level Rise Decimates Them

Earth is the hottest its ever been, it feels like a new mega gargantuan Godzilla storm record gets broken every other month, and environmental displacement is already threatening to upend certain communities livelihoods, and worse still, their histories. But…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Julian Assange

The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now

Newspapers and other media in the United States, Britain and Australia have recently declared a passion for freedom of speech, especially their right to publish freely. They are worried by the Assange effect. It is as if the struggle of truth-tellers like…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

A Harvard Business School professor says that it might be a good idea to shut down Facebook or Google for ‘a day or a week in order to show that it is democracy that rules here’

Our digital future is at stake, warns Shoshana Zuboff, professor emerita at Harvard Business School. The latest Axel Springer Award winner sat down with Mathias Döpfner, CEO of Axel Springer, to discuss her latest book, "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" …

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Solar Storm

Hear the Earth’s magnetic field sing as it is bombarded by a solar storm

In this image, Earth is the dot to the left of the image and the large arc around it is our planets magnetic bow shock. The swirling pattern to the right is the foreshock region where the solar wind breaks into waves as it encounters reflected particles from …

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Xi Jinping

Hong Kong elections draw record turnouts as pro-democracy protesters challenge establishment

Hong Kong's district council elections drew an overwhelming, record turnout Sunday as residents weighed in on months of tumultuous, pro-democracy protests sweeping the semi-autonomous Chinese territory. The Electoral Affairs Commission said at least 2.8 mill…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Here’s why AI deserves the same rights as animals

Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organizations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cogn…

bubmagNovember 24, 2019

The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims

Tesla’s Cybertruck Will Have Solar Charging Options

Disney Is Basically Just Trying to Make Real X-Wings For Galaxy’s Edge Now

Eamonn Sweeney: ‘Forever a Tour bridesmaid, Poulidor was first when it came to winning hearts of cycling fans’

Climate Planners Use VR to Show Communities How Sea-Level Rise Decimates Them

The Lies About Assange Must Stop Now

Hear the Earth’s magnetic field sing as it is bombarded by a solar storm

Hong Kong elections draw record turnouts as pro-democracy protesters challenge establishment

Here’s why AI deserves the same rights as animals

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