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Unwelcome Refugees

Turkey’s Erdoğan will be met by pro-Kurdish protests on visit to Orbán

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is heading to Budapest for further talks with Hungarian leader, Viktor Orbán. Orbán is a staunch supporter of Ankara but the Turkish President will be greeted by pro-Kurdish demonstrators. They are planning to march thr…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Exoskeleton

“Now I Know that Long Beach Walks are Not Usually Where Life-Changing Realizations Hit.”

Interview:Karen Wickre. Karen Wickre has worked in and around Silicon Valley for years as a corporate writer. She's developed stories and styles for Google, Twitter, and many startups. For instance, she joined Google when it employed 500 people; nine years l…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Virtual Reality

Google Cardboard SDK stops, open-source to continue VR development

It has been five years since Google launched the Google Cardboard. The VR viewer is one of the simplest we know so far because anyone can easily use it. One can also create a new virtual reality experience as made possible by the Google VR software developmen…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Big Data

ISPs Use Holistic Big Data Strategy To Shed Customer Cynicism

ISPs are using data analytics in a variety of ways. Many consumers may be concerned about this, because they are known to exploit customer data. However, they use data in a number of benevolent ways, which many people will be okay with. Pew Research has shown…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

A Letter of Concern to the Little Red Hen

Dear Little Red Hen, I am writing to you out of concern. After reading your story first with my entire junior kindergarten class and then three more times with small groups, I feel that I know you better than any other anthropomorphic barnyard animal and can…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Water Scarcity

South Africa receives R363 billion worth of investments!!!

South Africa – This, the President highlighted, is 17% higher than the R300 billion in investments made at the conferences debut in 2018 where the President announced his intention to attract R1.2 trillion over five years. With South Africa’s unemployment ra…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Geely

Volvo Cars To Trace Battery Cobalt Using Blockchain Technology

Volvo Cars said on Wednesday it will make the cobalt used in its batteries globally traceable using blockchain technology, following an agreement with its two battery suppliers, China's CATL and South Korea's LG Chem. Volvo, owned by China's Geely Holding, ha…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Filter Bubble

Twitter is finally backing up its talk with action

After years of delays, the company is finally shipping meaningful features and at a surprising clip Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge This story is part of a group of stories called One of my chief criticisms of Twitter over the years has been that…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Geely

China auto sales still hold ‘great potential’: ministry

2 min read A traffic jam during rush hour in downtown Beijing in August 2011. (Image credit: Bigstock/Checco) A recent and significant slowing in Chinas auto sales will not affect long-term growth potential, which remains robust for the next several years, a…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying for Saudi Arabia

The news: The US Justice Department has charged two men who used to work at Twitter with accessing personal information on critics of the Saudi Arabian regime, which they collected and passed on to Saudi officials, The Washington Post reports. Who were they?…

bubmagNovember 7, 2019

Turkey’s Erdoğan will be met by pro-Kurdish protests on visit to Orbán

“Now I Know that Long Beach Walks are Not Usually Where Life-Changing Realizations Hit.”

Google Cardboard SDK stops, open-source to continue VR development

ISPs Use Holistic Big Data Strategy To Shed Customer Cynicism

A Letter of Concern to the Little Red Hen

South Africa receives R363 billion worth of investments!!!

Volvo Cars To Trace Battery Cobalt Using Blockchain Technology

Twitter is finally backing up its talk with action

China auto sales still hold ‘great potential’: ministry

Two former Twitter employees have been charged with spying for Saudi Arabia

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