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Plastic Pollution

Pacific bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows

Flying into the uninhabited Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, Midway Atoll appears out of the vast blue Pacific as a tiny oasis of coral-fringed land with pristine white sand beaches that are teeming with life. But on the ground, there's a different scene: plas…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Android

Yes, hyena robots are scary. But they’re also a cunning marketing ploy

Earlier this year, videos of a robot being kicked, hit with a chair, and shot at by its human owners spread online. Created by an LA-based production company, Corridor Digital, the videos were a parody of those released by Boston Dynamics, a company that has …

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy Has an Intolerance Problem. Does It Still Have a Moderate Right?

ROME—When Liliana Segre, the face of Italy’s historical memory of the Holocaust, was named a senator for life last year, it was something of an honorary title for the 89-year-old grandmother. Segre, who was deported to Auschwitz at 13, No. 75191 tattooed on h…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

NASDAQ

New Content Platform From China Tries Out Nasdaq

For some understanding of how heated the Chinese startup market has been, consider that a China-founded media platform covering the action, 36Kr Holdings, went after a Nasdaq listing only nine years after its founding in Beijing by a first-time entrepreneur C…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Machine Learning

The Dangers of ‘Black Box’ AI

PC Magazine recently interviewed Janelle Shane, the optics research scientist and AI experimenter who authored the new book "You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place."At one point Sh…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

NATO

What I’ve been reading and browsing

1. Camilla Townsend, Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs. I read this one straight through, it does more to bring the Aztecs (a misnomer, by the way, as it is technically the name of the military alliance…a bit like referring to “NATO people”) to life tha…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

BUK-Missile

Moscow Expects UN Court To Reject Ukraine’s Terrorism-Financing Complaints Against Russia

By RFE/RL November 09, 2019 Russia's Foreign Ministry says it expects the International Court of Justice to "take full regard" of the Kremlin's arguments in a case filed against Russia by Kyiv and will "eventually reject all of Ukraine's claims." The minist…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Korean War

China Wants More Aircraft Carriers—And That’s Bad News For America’s Asian Allies

Key point: Despite their vulnerabilities, China believes that aircraft carriers have a future. The Peoples Liberation Army Navymore commonly known outside of China as the Chinese Navyis modernizing at a breakneck pace. Chinese shipbuilders have built more th…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Alibaba

UPDATE 1-With discounts galore and Taylor Swift, Alibaba eyes another record Singles’ Day

* Alibaba sold $30 bln worth of goods on Singles' Day last year * First Singles' Day event since Jack Ma's resignation in Sept * Faces rising competition from small rivals (Updates to add link to graphic) By Unknown 91883847-8815-4454-9e64-4b933c8b88aa SH…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Christianity

I Was a Misunderstood Muslim: Common Misconceptions About Islam

Christians are called to be witnesses of Christ to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). In our day, the ends of the earth are moving into our neighborhoods at least for those of us in America and Europe. Muslims are emigrating to our cities in record numbers. Ma…

bubmagNovember 10, 2019

Pacific bird refuge struggles as ocean garbage patch grows

Yes, hyena robots are scary. But they’re also a cunning marketing ploy

Italy Has an Intolerance Problem. Does It Still Have a Moderate Right?

New Content Platform From China Tries Out Nasdaq

The Dangers of ‘Black Box’ AI

What I’ve been reading and browsing

Moscow Expects UN Court To Reject Ukraine’s Terrorism-Financing Complaints Against Russia

China Wants More Aircraft Carriers—And That’s Bad News For America’s Asian Allies

UPDATE 1-With discounts galore and Taylor Swift, Alibaba eyes another record Singles’ Day

I Was a Misunderstood Muslim: Common Misconceptions About Islam

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