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Privacy Concerns

Apple: Safari Does Not Send User Browsing History to China’s Tencent

Safari does use Tencent to ensure that users in China do not navigate to malicious websites, but it never sends the actual URL of a visited site to the Chinese company, Apple says. The explanation was given following a series of reports that Safari is sendin…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

VR

Google’s Daydream VR project is no longer a reality

Googles senior VP of hardware, Rick Osterloh, talked about sustainability on the stage last night at the Pixel event. While its nice to see the company talking about making their products green, it seems to be finding it hard to sustain projects they start. …

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Banana Leaves As Biodegradable

Plastic pollution negatively impacts the health of our planet. Waste management has led to an irreversible environmental crisis that is felt by wildlife, especially in the oceans. One organization, called Banana Leaf Technology, is helping to address the star…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Times Square

The real reason Apple and Google still hold big launch events

Google has launched its latest flagship phones, Pixel 4 and 4XL. Although the new models feature relatively marginal improvements to their predecessors, the launch was staged with much fanfare by Google, as if it represented a major breakthrough for the compa…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Monument to women, playground scare, Dali theft: News from around our 50 states

Alabama Birmingham: The National Park Service has named a superintendent to oversee new civil rights historical sites in Birmingham and Anniston. The federal agency says Kris Butcher will take over at the Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument and the Fre…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX wants to send another 30,000 Starlink internet satellites into space

SpaceX already has permission to deploy 12,000 internet satellites in low-Earth orbit, and launched the first batch of 60 in May 2019. Now its seeking the go-ahead to launch an additional 30,000. The effort is part of SpaceX’s ambitious $10 billion Starlink …

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

Priestly blessing at the Western Wall – Watch live

Tens of thousands of people are at the Western Wall for the Priestly blessing (Birkat Kohanim), which is recited during the intermediate days of the Sukkot holiday. The chief rabbis of Israel and the Rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites will be in att…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Belt and Road

Modi offered Xi Indo-Pacific connect in response to BRI

Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the just concluded second edition of the informal summit deftly handled President Xi Jinping’s suggestion for India's entry into Maritime Silk Route, a key segment of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and instead suggested China …

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Climate Change

People Are Raging At CNN Over George W. Bush And Ellen DeGeneres Debate Question

Almost three hours into the Democratic debate Tuesday night, neither the presidential candidates nor viewers seemed all too impressed when CNN host Anderson Cooper wrapped up the night with a question about Ellen DeGeneres and George W. Bushs friendship despi…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Water Pollution

Nine groups call on Govt to get tough on water pollution

Nine major groups have called upon the Government to set tougher standards to clean up the country's waterways. In a joint statement, the groups including Forest & Bird, Greenpeace, Fish and Game, and the Environmental Defence Society set out four polic…

bubmagOctober 16, 2019

Apple: Safari Does Not Send User Browsing History to China’s Tencent

Google’s Daydream VR project is no longer a reality

Banana Leaves As Biodegradable

The real reason Apple and Google still hold big launch events

Monument to women, playground scare, Dali theft: News from around our 50 states

SpaceX wants to send another 30,000 Starlink internet satellites into space

Priestly blessing at the Western Wall – Watch live

Modi offered Xi Indo-Pacific connect in response to BRI

People Are Raging At CNN Over George W. Bush And Ellen DeGeneres Debate Question

Nine groups call on Govt to get tough on water pollution

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