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Doping in Cycling

Vinokourov cleared of corruption in race-fixing case

BRUSSELS (AP) — A judicial official says former Olympic cycling champion Alexandre Vinokourov and fellow rider Alexandr Kolobnev have been cleared of corruption charges in a suspected case of race-fixing. The pair faced up to six months in jail after being a…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Nukes

North Korea Hates This: Meet South Korea’s Very Special F-15 Fighter

Key Point: The F-15K has powerful sensors and bunker-busting bombs to take out North Korea's missiles... or even its leadership. On September 13, 2017 the Republic of Korea Air Force (ROKAF) test-fired a Taurus cruise missile in response to a North Korean ba…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Exoskeleton

109° – [Xbox One] The Surge – £3.93 / The Surge Augmented Edition – £8.24 with Gold @ Microsoft Store

microsoft.com/en-…9l8Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving our world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex. Robots gone haywir…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Machine Learning

Amazon wants Alexa to run your life. First, it must know everything about you

I started using Alexa before it was cool. I bought a first-generation Echo a few months after its launch because Amazon.com showed me a banner ad as I was shopping for new speakers. After it arrived, my then-roommate, a software engineer at Google, eagerly co…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Global Warming

OPEC fully supports Paris climate pact: Secretary-General Barkindo

VIENNA (Reuters) - OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo said on Tuesday that the oil producer group fully supports the Paris Agreement on climate change, a day after the Trump administration said it had filed paperwork to withdraw the United States from t…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

The millionaire trying to sell Messianic Judaism to the world

When he visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem last May, many of the traditional Jews there could not have known that this controversial Rabbi Kirt Schneider - with a graying beard, a kippah, tsitsit and a tallit (Jewish garb) - was not really a rabbi.

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Drones

The U.S. Army’s Laser Weapons Future Has Arrived

(Washington, D.C.) The Army is preparing to incinerate enemy weapons targets in an upcoming in a laser-off firing of its emerging Stryker-armed 50-kilowatt laser weapon designed to destroy drones, helicopters, fixed-wing aircraft and incoming enemy missiles. …

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Panda

Planet Zoo review

What is it? A management sim about running a series of zoosExpect to pay: $45/£35Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier DevelopmentsReviewed on: Intel i5-6600K, GTX 980, 8 GB RAMMultiplayer: No, though you can share creationsLink: Steam store T…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Black Hole

The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago

Sixty years ago, mankind got its very first glimpse of the far side of the Moon, so called because it faces away from the Earth. (And as astronomers like Neil DeGrasse Tyson have long taken pains to point out to Pink Floyd fans, it isn't "dark.") Taken by the…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Venezuela

History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars into Wars Against Imperialism

Now is the time to throw off all hesitation, open up new fronts of struggle and to launch every protest, demonstration, and anti-imperialist action from the ballot box to the barricades as an act to deepen the crisis of imperialism. Every protest against pol…

bubmagNovember 5, 2019

Vinokourov cleared of corruption in race-fixing case

North Korea Hates This: Meet South Korea’s Very Special F-15 Fighter

109° – [Xbox One] The Surge – £3.93 / The Surge Augmented Edition – £8.24 with Gold @ Microsoft Store

Amazon wants Alexa to run your life. First, it must know everything about you

OPEC fully supports Paris climate pact: Secretary-General Barkindo

The millionaire trying to sell Messianic Judaism to the world

The U.S. Army’s Laser Weapons Future Has Arrived

Planet Zoo review

The Very First Picture of the Far Side of the Moon, Taken 60 Years Ago

History Demands: Turn Imperialist Wars into Wars Against Imperialism

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