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Where to Satisfy Your Scary Cravings In New York City All Month Long

A spread fit for Halloween. David Jacobson of Bodega Negra Celebrating Halloween in NYC is ridiculously fun no matter what your age. Throughout the month New Yorkers are going all out for this holiday. From mildly terrifying haunted houses to the not-so-sca…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Up to 5,500 US troops will keep deploying to the southwest border through September 2020

The US military's seemingly never-ending mission supporting civil authorities along the southwestern border will last at least another year. On September 3, Defense Secretary Mark Esper approved a request from the Department of Homeland Security to provide a…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Chinese Economy

No zero sum

Xi was the first Chinese President to land in Kathmandu in over two decades, and the visit acknowledged the closeness between the two countries from the last decade, but more so, since 2015. President Xi Jinpings visit to Nepal after the Mamallapuram meeting…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Paris

Ukraine stun Portugal, France denied

Ukraine qualified for Euro 2020 with victory over Portugal despite Cristiano Ronaldo's 700th goal, but Turkey denied France late on in Paris. Group B Ronaldo netted his milestone goal for club and country by converting a penalty kick in the 72nd minute, whe…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Cold War

Leo Labs and its high-fidelity space radar track orbital debris better than ever — from New Zealand

Ask anyone in the space business and they’ll tell you that orbital debris is a serious problem that will only get worse, but dealing with it is as much an opportunity as it is a problem. Leo Labs is building a global network of radar arrays that can track sma…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Super Komachi

No-one in Japan knew my dad had died. I wanted to fix that

Updated October 15, 2019 09:28:14 Back in March, I went to a country I adore, Japan, to film a documentary. Not on the Olympics or robots or sushi trains this was going to be about me. Japan is where my Dad was born, where half my genetic history lies and…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Feudalism

Brian Cox on Succession’s Season 2 Finale, Trump, Murdoch, Scottish Independence, and Playing LBJ

The original plan was for Logan Roy to die at the end of season one of Succession, Brian Cox told me a few days before the season two finale, over a lunch of onion soup, meze, and a couple of Arnold Palmers in a Persian restaurant near his 51st-floor apartmen…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Virtual Reality

Owlchemy’s audio wizard offers tips on making the most of music in VR

Music is a critical aspect of game design players often overlook, and at XRDC in San Francisco today Owlchemy’s Daniel Perry shared some tips on how to use it well in virtual reality. Drawing on his experiences designing and implementing soundscapes for VR e…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Global Warming

First Nations displaced by storm share concerns, frustrations with Scheer campaign – Global News

Families forced to flee the Lake Manitoba First Nation are expressing frustration around evacuation efforts following a recent snowstorm that’s left thousands of people in the province without electricity for days. Babies and seniors alike were crowded into …

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Putin

Kremlin tells Turkey to ensure Syria operation is proportionate

RIYADH/MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin complained on Monday that Turkey’s incursion into northern Syria was “not exactly” compatible with Syrian territorial integrity, and Ankara should ensure its actions were proportionate. The Kremlin was commenting as Rus…

bubmagOctober 14, 2019

Where to Satisfy Your Scary Cravings In New York City All Month Long

Up to 5,500 US troops will keep deploying to the southwest border through September 2020

No zero sum

Ukraine stun Portugal, France denied

Leo Labs and its high-fidelity space radar track orbital debris better than ever — from New Zealand

No-one in Japan knew my dad had died. I wanted to fix that

Brian Cox on Succession’s Season 2 Finale, Trump, Murdoch, Scottish Independence, and Playing LBJ

Owlchemy’s audio wizard offers tips on making the most of music in VR

First Nations displaced by storm share concerns, frustrations with Scheer campaign – Global News

Kremlin tells Turkey to ensure Syria operation is proportionate

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