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Virtual Reality

A responsive “skin” could let you cuddle your child in virtual reality

A second skin: A soft, wireless skin made out of silicone could let the wearer feel objects in virtual reality. In a paper in Nature today, researchers from Northwestern University in the US and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University describe creating a multila…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Star Wars

Disney Plus: Everything to know about Disney’s Netflix rival – CNET

Disney has called it the future of the company: Disney Plus. It's the entertainment giant's streaming service for almost everything it creates, taking on Netflix as well as an emerging crop of rivals that includes Apple TV Plus and HBO Max. Disney Plus offi…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Chinese Expansionism

Opinion | Trump’s weak Indo-Pacific plan will embolden China

With the global geopolitical centre of gravity shifting toward Asia, a pluralistic, rules-based Indo-Pacific order is more important than ever, including for Americas own global standing. So it was good news when, two years ago, US President Donald Trump bega…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy: Holocaust survivor’s protection highlights rise in racism

Rome, Italy - Liliana Segre, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor and senator-for-life, has been put under police protection due to anti-Semitic threats on her life, the Italian police revealed last week. Earlier this month, Segre found herself at the epicentre…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

The House is reportedly investigating whether Trump lied in his written answers to Mueller

Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton told a group of bankers in Miami two weeks ago that his former boss President Trump "believes his personal chemistry with foreign leaders, including authoritarians like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Er…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

TikTok employees and investors are seemingly very worried about the company’s China ties

Former White House National Security Adviser John Bolton told a group of bankers in Miami two weeks ago that his former boss President Trump "believes his personal chemistry with foreign leaders, including authoritarians like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Er…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea Says It’s ‘No Longer Interested’ in Meetings That Only Serve U.S. Interests, President Trump’s Pride

(SEOUL, South Korea) — North Korea on Monday responded to a tweet by U.S. President Donald Trump that hinted at another summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, saying it has no interest in giving Trump further meetings to brag about unless it gets someth…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Refugees

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Gets a New Trailer – Watch Kevin Smith Recap the First Three Seasons

Next month brings the return of The Expanse, the show that SyFy axed last spring, but was saved by Amazon for a new season. In season 4, the crew of the Rocinante is being sent through the Ring Gate to explore a new world. A group of refugees has already…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Refugees Welcome

United Airlines ‘accommodates’ racist passenger who doesn’t want to sit next to black woman

A young woman has claimed United Airlines accommodated a racist passenger after he said he didnt want to sit next to her because she is black. Taylor Richardson, 16, said a flight attendant agreed to move the man after he complained onboard a Denver-Jacksonv…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

Silk Road

Sieren’s China: Europe must speak with one voice

When French President Emmanuel Macron was recently in China on a three-day visit, he said that he was speaking in the name of Europe. Such a comment might not have gone down well in Berlin. Or did Macron confer with German Chancellor Angela Merkel before goin…

bubmagNovember 18, 2019

A responsive “skin” could let you cuddle your child in virtual reality

Disney Plus: Everything to know about Disney’s Netflix rival – CNET

Opinion | Trump’s weak Indo-Pacific plan will embolden China

Italy: Holocaust survivor’s protection highlights rise in racism

The House is reportedly investigating whether Trump lied in his written answers to Mueller

TikTok employees and investors are seemingly very worried about the company’s China ties

North Korea Says It’s ‘No Longer Interested’ in Meetings That Only Serve U.S. Interests, President Trump’s Pride

‘The Expanse’ Season 4 Gets a New Trailer – Watch Kevin Smith Recap the First Three Seasons

United Airlines ‘accommodates’ racist passenger who doesn’t want to sit next to black woman

Sieren’s China: Europe must speak with one voice

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