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Fight a VR Darth Vader in the final chapter of Star Wars Vader Immortal – CNET

A lightsaber battle in VR with Darth Vader caps off Oculus' three-part episodic series. ILMxLab Somewhere between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope, just a bit before Rogue One, Darth Vader lurks on Mustafar. The three-part VR experience Vader Immortal, wh…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Blockchain

This Design Team is Using Legos, Stickers, and Playing Cards to Demystify Blockchain

What the Block received a Notable Design Education Initiative Award in the 2019 Core77 Design Awards. It's not that designers Cyrus Clarke and John Ferreira were necessarily sick and tired of the inundation of requests they'd been receiving to explain what t…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Barack Obama

The Keystone Pipeline Spilled Oil (Again)

Pipelines were made for transporting oil. But some, it appears, were made for leaking. The Keystone Pipeline System is one of those. The system runs more than 2,600 miles from Canada and into Nebraska where it splits. And on Tuesday night, it began to spill …

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Water Scarcity

The Lawless Race to Harvest Arctic Icebergs

I tasted my first iceberg in L’anse aux Meadows, Canada, overlooking the windswept grassland that clings to the northern tip of Newfoundland. I had ordered a martini on the rocks from the only bar in town, and it arrived at my table gently fizzing. The jagged…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Hrant Dink

House passes resolution declaring Armenian massacre a genocide, 2 Dems, including Ilhan Omar, refuse to take a stand

According to several sources, including the BBC and the New York Times, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by a 405-11 vote (with three people, two of them Democrats, just voting “present”), a resolution recognizing as a “genocide” the mass killing of …

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Uber Establishes Oversight Board for Self-driving Development

Uber hasÂ formed an independent board tasked with overseeing its autonomous vehicle program. As outsiders, they’ll have no official authority within the company. But the six-member group will have direct access to executive years, and will be using them to ad…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Early retirement may accelerate cognitive decline: study

Toronto -- While early retirement has been linked to health benefits such as improved sleep and reduced alcohol consumption, U.S. researchers have found that it may also accelerate cognitive decline in seniors. Academics from Binghamton University in New Yor…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Vatican, Jews criticize Italy’s right for snubbing anti-Semitism committee

ROME (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church and Rome’s Jewish community expressed dismay on Thursday after rightist parties refused to back the creation of a parliamentary commission to investigate hate, racism and anti-Semitism. The idea of the committee wa…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Why Those “Endless Wars” Must Never End

Let us stipulate at the outset that Donald Trump is a vulgar and dishonest fraud without a principled bone in his corpulent frame. Yet history is nothing if not a tale overflowing with irony. Despite his massive shortcomings, President Trump appears intent on…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Trickle-Down

In favour of the wealth tax: The tax code doesn’t fully comprehend how the wealthiest Americans make their money, and it’s hurting everyone else

Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures, a cofounder of the Seattle Review of Books, and a frequent cohost of the Pitchfork Economics podcast with Nick Hanauer. In this opinion piece, he says that wealthy people have pushed agains…

bubmagOctober 31, 2019

Fight a VR Darth Vader in the final chapter of Star Wars Vader Immortal – CNET

This Design Team is Using Legos, Stickers, and Playing Cards to Demystify Blockchain

The Keystone Pipeline Spilled Oil (Again)

The Lawless Race to Harvest Arctic Icebergs

House passes resolution declaring Armenian massacre a genocide, 2 Dems, including Ilhan Omar, refuse to take a stand

Uber Establishes Oversight Board for Self-driving Development

Early retirement may accelerate cognitive decline: study

Vatican, Jews criticize Italy’s right for snubbing anti-Semitism committee

Why Those “Endless Wars” Must Never End

In favour of the wealth tax: The tax code doesn’t fully comprehend how the wealthiest Americans make their money, and it’s hurting everyone else

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