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Jerusalem Controversy

How do we heal the split between American Jewry and Israel?

In his recently published book, We Stand Divided, Dr. Daniel Gordis made an important contribution to the ongoing discourse about how to heal the split between American Jewry and Israel. While Gordis is insightful in examining the differences between Israeli …

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Silk Road

Bitcoin Madness, Zuckerberg in Congress, China’s Blockchain Plans: Hodler’s Digest, Oct 21–27

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Airless tire makers hope for breakout moment with autonomous driving

TOKYO Makers of airless tires such as Japan's Bridgestone Corp. hope driverless cars will herald a breakthrough for their niche technology, which is more than a decade old but underperforms standard tires in every way except resistance to puncture. Autonomou…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Trade War

Hong Kong Banks, Long Fat and Happy, Confront Leaner Times – The Wall Street Journal

For years, Hong Kong has been one of the worlds most profitable banking markets. That status is now under threat.Banks profit per employee last year was higher in Hong Kong than in any other market tracked by Citigroup analystsroughly double the U.S. figure.B…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Boeing 737max

Sunday News Roundup: 11 Quick Takes On What’s Going On In Aviation, Credit, And Deals That You Should Know About

Some stories and deals don’t get their own post, but should get some coverage. I’ll round them up here and let me know what you think of making posts like this in the future Aviation: I wrote about the innovative project here previously. United stripped 20…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Geely

Volvo’s Polestar Electric Car Will Take On The World In 2020

Polestar 2 electric car at the Geneva International Motor Show. (Photo credit FABRICE ... COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images Electric performance car pretender Polestar is going global from day one in a China-funded gamble which makes Tesla see…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Google

Get an Echo Dot and a Month of Music Unlimited For $9 Today

Amazon is running a promotion today that will allow you to walk away with an Echo Dot for $8.98, a considerable discount from its regular price. To get it, you just need to go to this specific product page. Rather than purchasing an Echo Dot for $8.98, what …

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Bees

City program helps homeowners create pollinator gardens in Toronto

While most homeowners are raking autumn leaves, Mike Perozak is helping his neighbours in downtown Toronto prepare their gardens to welcome guests in the spring. They are ripping up grass, filling their lawns with native plants meant to encourage bees and ot…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Yellow Vests

Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants’ rights

The gilets jaunes/yellow vests protest movement mobilized in France over a slate of grievances, led by President Macron's plan to meet emissions targets by punishing poor and a rural people, while dealing out massive favors to the country's wealthy elites. As…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

Virtual Reality

This Virtual Reality Tech Shows VR Is Far From a Fad

A few years back, virtual reality was all anyone could talk about. How virtually transforming our worlds would disrupt movies, music, gaming, therapy, athletic, and even military training, was firmly on the agenda. But the earliest VR headsets were too expens…

bubmagOctober 27, 2019

How do we heal the split between American Jewry and Israel?

Bitcoin Madness, Zuckerberg in Congress, China’s Blockchain Plans: Hodler’s Digest, Oct 21–27

Airless tire makers hope for breakout moment with autonomous driving

Hong Kong Banks, Long Fat and Happy, Confront Leaner Times – The Wall Street Journal

Sunday News Roundup: 11 Quick Takes On What’s Going On In Aviation, Credit, And Deals That You Should Know About

Volvo’s Polestar Electric Car Will Take On The World In 2020

Get an Echo Dot and a Month of Music Unlimited For $9 Today

City program helps homeowners create pollinator gardens in Toronto

Les gilets noirs: a French protest movement defending migrants’ rights

This Virtual Reality Tech Shows VR Is Far From a Fad

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