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Riots

Iran Turned off the Internet to Shut Down Protests, and No One Knows When It’s Coming Back On

Minutes after protests broke out in over 100 cities across Iran on Friday, following a 50 percent hike in fuel prices, officials at the state-run Telecommunication Company of Iran (TIC) put in motion a plan to suffocate the demonstrations, cutting off the oxy…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Boeing 737max

Will the $1.2B 737 Max Deal Aid Boeing’s Commercial Business?

The ongoing Dubai Airshow proved to be a productive event for Boeings BA 737 Max product line, after Turkey-based airline SunExpress agreed to expand its fleet by 10 additional 737Max 8 jets. The deal, valued at $1.2 billion, represents the first firm order f…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Water Scarcity

World Toilet Day: 4.2 billion people live without safely-managed sanitation

More than half of the world's population do not have access to safely managed sanitation, the United Nations revealed to mark World Toilet Day. Of those, three billion lack basic handwashing facilities and 673 million still practise open defecation, the UN s…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Julian Assange

Prosecutors In Sweden Drop Probe Into Julian Assange Rape Allegation

Getty Images Topline: Swedish prosecutors have dropped their investigation into an allegation of sexual assault made against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2010. The 48-year-old, denies the allegation, but took refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy …

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Julian Assange

Sweden drops investigation into a rape allegation made against Julian Assange in 2010, citing weakened evidence due to time elapsed since the events in question (BBC)

Mediagazer presents the day's must-read media news on a single page. The media business is in tumult: from the production side to the distribution side, new technologies are upending the industry. Keeping up with these changes is time-consuming, as essenti…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Virtual Reality

AMD launches 7-nm Radeon Pro workstation graphics chips

Advanced Micro Devices is launching the AMD Radeon Pro W5700 graphics card as its latest assault on Nvidia’s hold on the workstation graphics market. The new graphics card and its chip are powered by AMD’s RDNA architecture, aimed at providing high performan…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Air Pollution

Study finds a green solution in halving children’s pollutant exposure

Simply planting a hedge in front of a park can halve the amount of traffic pollution that reaches children as they play, finds a new study by the University of Surrey. In what is believed to be the first study of its kind, experts from Surrey's Global Centre…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Animal Protection

Arlene Foster challenges Sinn Féin to condemn IRA shooting of her father

DUP LEADER ARLENE Foster has challenged Sinn Féin to condemn IRA murder bids against both her late father and the DUPs deputy leader. The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader singled out the two Troubles incidents as she suggested the republican party was …

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italian prosecutors investigate ex-minister Salvini

Prosecutors in Sicily are investigating former Italian Interior Minister Matteo Salvini for not allowing a humanitarian rescue ship to enter Italian waters this summer. The news agency ANSA said Salvini was being investigated for abduction and dereliction of…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Solar Storm

European Space Agency captures the ‘sound of our planet singing’ as solar storms batter it

The Earth has inspired many a famous tune from Michael Jackson's 'Earth Song' to Björk's 'Earth Intruders' but now the blue planet has a song of its very own. Astronomers have recorded for the first time the eerie warbling 'song' sung by the Earth's magnetic…

bubmagNovember 19, 2019

Iran Turned off the Internet to Shut Down Protests, and No One Knows When It’s Coming Back On

Will the $1.2B 737 Max Deal Aid Boeing’s Commercial Business?

World Toilet Day: 4.2 billion people live without safely-managed sanitation

Prosecutors In Sweden Drop Probe Into Julian Assange Rape Allegation

Sweden drops investigation into a rape allegation made against Julian Assange in 2010, citing weakened evidence due to time elapsed since the events in question (BBC)

AMD launches 7-nm Radeon Pro workstation graphics chips

Study finds a green solution in halving children’s pollutant exposure

Arlene Foster challenges Sinn Féin to condemn IRA shooting of her father

Italian prosecutors investigate ex-minister Salvini

European Space Agency captures the ‘sound of our planet singing’ as solar storms batter it

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