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Fortnite

Fortnite’s black hole event was a serious game changer – CNET

It's back. Epic After a delay of a week, Fortniteseason 10 finished up Sunday with The End event that would have introduced season 11. But "The End" turned out to be more literal than anyone could have imagined -- the game was no longer playable after the …

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Filter Bubble

How To Have A Climate-Friendly Long-Distance Relationship In The Time Of “Flight Shame”

Getty Being in a long-distance relationship is always hard but if you have to take a plane every time you want to see your loved one it can be even harder. First off, you have to show up at the airport two hours in advance. To kill those couple of…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Economic Bubble

MORE CHEAP MONEY = MORE CHEAP TRICKS

Another week, another stream of mainstream media headlines that simplify complex economic and geopolitical facts and factors, distilling them down to a reason or two as to why markets move and economies shift. Last week, for example, after the Dow slumped on…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Google

Corporate America’s Second War With the Rule of Law

The old order fought back. Hoover, fearing disorder, had the protesters in 1932 teargassed and their protest encampments destroyed by the Army. When the government tried to impose the law on this small group of powerful actors, what FDR called the informal ec…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

NATO

I’m Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and This Is How I Work

Toomas Hendrik Ilves, son of Estonian refugees who fled the country during the 1944 Soviet takeover, saw his country regain independence in 1991. In 2006 he became Estonias fourth president. We had a long talk about his accomplishments as president, a positio…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Virtual Reality

Luigi’s Latest Parody Nintendo Console Is The Best One Yet

Luigis heading back to another haunted mansion (well, a haunted hotel) in Luigis Mansion 3 this Halloween, and hes got many more tricks up his sleeve for busting ghosts, including one gadget thats a wonderful reference to a classic Nintendo console of yore. …

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Machine Learning

Gigamon Announces ThreatINSIGHT, the Industry’s Fastest Cloud-Native NDR Solution

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Gigamon, the leader in network visibility and analytics for digital innovators, today announced the latest version of Gigamon ThreatINSIGHT, the cloud-native Network Detection and Response (NDR) solution. ThreatINSIGHT us…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Tracing the journey of microplastics in the Arctic

By now it's well established that microplastics are a problem in the environment, even in the remotest parts of the planet. But where do different microplastics come from and how they get there, especially in the Arctic? When two of Jacob Berg Lofthus's frie…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Super Komachi

JR East may scrap 120 flooded shinkansen cars

East Japan Railway Co., or JR East, may be forced to scrap all of the 120 cars of its Hokuriku Shinkansen bullet train services that were damaged in flooding caused by Typhoon Hagibis, which ravaged mainly central and eastern Japan over the weekend. The 19th…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

China's Strategy

China Conducts Intense Firing and Grenade Lobbing Exercise Near Indian Border – Reports

New Delhi (Sputnik): In August, the Indian Armys vice-chief designate M. M. Naravane stated that if the Chinese Army had crossed the border at the Line of Actual Control (LAC) 100 times, Indian troops have done so twice as many times.Days after the second Inf…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Fortnite’s black hole event was a serious game changer – CNET

How To Have A Climate-Friendly Long-Distance Relationship In The Time Of “Flight Shame”

MORE CHEAP MONEY = MORE CHEAP TRICKS

Corporate America’s Second War With the Rule of Law

I’m Former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves, and This Is How I Work

Luigi’s Latest Parody Nintendo Console Is The Best One Yet

Gigamon Announces ThreatINSIGHT, the Industry’s Fastest Cloud-Native NDR Solution

Tracing the journey of microplastics in the Arctic

JR East may scrap 120 flooded shinkansen cars

China Conducts Intense Firing and Grenade Lobbing Exercise Near Indian Border – Reports

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