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Times Square

Fake ‘soldiers’ banned from Checkpoint Charlie

For almost 20 years, tourists visiting Berlin could pose with an actor dressed up as a Cold War-era American soldier. Now, German authorities have revoked the actors’ licenses and prohibited them from performing at the landmark. During the Cold War, when Ger…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Google

Avoid Missed Calls With Google’s New ‘Ring Gradually’ Feature for Pixel

In a perfect world, Id leave my phone on vibrate all the time. Nothing against my fun ringtone; I just find it more pleasant to feel a buzz when someone is calling than get blasted with some song. Thanks to a new update from Google, however, I can have bothon…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Big Data

Can Big Data Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Fortnite

A Brooklyn comic store inspired by ‘Fortnite’ is delivering a new kind of experience for kids at a time when comic shops need to adapt to survive

The first thing you realize when you enter Loot — a kid-focused comic shop that opened in July in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens — is that this is not your traditional comic-book store. Instead of giant posters and shelves that are common in co…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Electric Car

Tesla Model 3 is now the most efficient electric car sold – Roadshow

Just call it the king of efficiency. Steven Ewing/Roadshow Step aside, Hyundai Ioniq Electric, there's a new efficiency champ in town. EPA estimates have officially made the Tesla Model 3 Standard Range-Plus the most efficient electric car on sale in the US…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Silk Road

Aramco IPO Will Lean on Saudis and China as Fund Managers Balk

(Bloomberg) -- One week into Saudi Aramcos mammoth initial public offering and the likely shape of the deal is already emerging. Investors with political or strategic reasons to buy the stock are in, while many international money managers seem ready to pass …

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Ivanka Trump contradicts father Donald by saying whistleblower identity ‘not particularly relevant’

Ivanka Trump has defended her father as the Ukraine scandal intensifies: AP Ivanka Trump has dismissed speculation over the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into her father, even though the president himself has called for th…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Ivanka Trump contradicts father Donald by saying whistleblower identity ‘not particularly relevant’

Ivanka Trump has dismissed speculation over the identity of the whistleblower who sparked the impeachment inquiry into her father, even though the president himself has called for the person to be named. Donald Trump has repeatedly urged the media to public…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Virtual Reality

Google brings DIY virtual reality to the masses by open-sourcing Cardboard SDK

Google has made its Cardboard virtual reality software open source, meaning those with a penchant for digital tomfoolery can poke away at the Cardboard SDK to create their own VR experiences for the DIY headset. The news comes a few months after Google deci…

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Yemen Civil War

The Child Soldier Crisis: ‘Kids Are Cheap’

When Michael Mulroy first met Anthony Opoka, Mulroy was a CIA paramilitary officer working to combat the Lords Resistance Army (LRA), a violent insurgency operating in central Africa against the government of Uganda. Mulroy noticed that Opoka, a young Acholi …

bubmagNovember 8, 2019

Fake ‘soldiers’ banned from Checkpoint Charlie

Avoid Missed Calls With Google’s New ‘Ring Gradually’ Feature for Pixel

Can Big Data Help Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease?

A Brooklyn comic store inspired by ‘Fortnite’ is delivering a new kind of experience for kids at a time when comic shops need to adapt to survive

Tesla Model 3 is now the most efficient electric car sold – Roadshow

Aramco IPO Will Lean on Saudis and China as Fund Managers Balk

Ivanka Trump contradicts father Donald by saying whistleblower identity ‘not particularly relevant’

Ivanka Trump contradicts father Donald by saying whistleblower identity ‘not particularly relevant’

Google brings DIY virtual reality to the masses by open-sourcing Cardboard SDK

The Child Soldier Crisis: ‘Kids Are Cheap’

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