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Belt and Road

The leaders of China and India pretend to get along

DRAGON AND tiger, or panda and elephant? As Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, and Narendra Modi, Indias prime minister, met for an informal summit on October 12th, the masala of metaphors in the Indian press was telling. Strongmen on their own political turf…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Black Hole

Fortnite’s Black Hole Inspired Increased Porn Searches

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Star Wars

Jedi: Fallen Order hands-on — This is the Star Wars adventure that you’re looking for

We’ve had a lot of Star Wars action games that focus on the power fantasy of being a Jedi, such as Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast and The Force Unleashed. I mean, it’s not like I expect someone to make a game about a Corellian baker or something. And at…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Will the Internet of Things Ever Rule the World?

Every possible entity, whether it is a machine, a satellite, an object that performs their tasks independently using the internet as a medium, has to transfer relevant data. IoT has been the latest leap of faith made by humans. We are basically allotting esse…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Neymar

Are Barcelona Ready To Give Up On Neymar?

SINGAPORE, SINGAPORE - OCTOBER 13: Neymar Jr of Brazil looks on during the international friendly match between Brazil and Nigeria at the Singapore National Stadium on October 13, 2019 in Singapore. (Photo by Lionel Ng/Getty Images) Getty Images There is on…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

NATO

The biggest threat to military readiness has nothing to do with combat

While aging equipment and bureaucracy continue to put a strain on the military's performance, training injuries are also taking a devastating toll. Soldiers injured during training missed more than 4 million duty days in the first half of 2019 alone, medical…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

EU and UK Reach Agreement on Brexit

LONDON, United Kingdom — Negotiators from the UK reached an agreement with officials in Brussels Thursday that could pave the way for Britain to finally break 46 years of ties with the European Union. But Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party said it s…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Non-renewable Resources

20,000 startup ideas for the taking

(This data comes from the O*NET web site.) This gives a kind of map of the territory of current economically important human activities. Therefore it represents a good source of startup ideas. It maybe is even the listing…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Chasing nanoplastics

How dangerous are micro- and nanoplastics? Do they affect the environment? What harm can they do to our bodies? Questions that we can now finally answer because of Fazel Abdolahpur Monikh. Together with his colleagues, he developed a method to detect and quan…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

Virtual Reality

BBC winds down its in-house VR production team

"After that project though, the VR Hub will be wrapping up its commissioning and production work," writes Zillah Watson, the head of the division. Watson goes on to state that the BBC will continue to "identify audience opportunities for VR," in addition to l…

bubmagOctober 17, 2019

The leaders of China and India pretend to get along

Fortnite’s Black Hole Inspired Increased Porn Searches

Jedi: Fallen Order hands-on — This is the Star Wars adventure that you’re looking for

Will the Internet of Things Ever Rule the World?

Are Barcelona Ready To Give Up On Neymar?

The biggest threat to military readiness has nothing to do with combat

EU and UK Reach Agreement on Brexit

20,000 startup ideas for the taking

Chasing nanoplastics

BBC winds down its in-house VR production team

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