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Little Italy

Business calendar: Upcoming events in the area – Houston Chronicle

9 a.m.-1:30 p.m., UH Bauer College SBDC, 2302 Fannin, Suite 200. Cost: $89. Information: www.sbdc.uh.edu. Job Search Survival Tips: Hosted by Fort Bend County Libraries’ Sugar Land Branch Library. 5:30-8:30 p.m., 550 Eldridge. Part two will be held Tuesday.…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Virtual Reality

MNF: Auba’s goal at Old Trafford in virtual reality!

Get a unique view of Arsenal striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's equaliser at Manchester United from Monday Night Football with the help of virtual reality! Arsenal secured a draw after a crucial VAR intervention as Aubameyang finished expertly past David de…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Solar Storm

Edward Snowden, You Legend!

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster; when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil Are you sure that you can skin griz? line from film Jerem…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Christianity

Ethan Stuart paints “the magical realism” of believing in a higher power

Whether you believe in God or not, you have to admit some of it is pretty trippy. Devils, ghosts, people rising from the dead, to believe in the bible to the letter requires a leap of, well, faith. For his latest series of paintings, New York State-based arti…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Blockchain

Tim Cook throws shade at Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Now that Facebook has announced its initiative to build a cryptocurrency, will other tech giants follow in its footsteps? Well, Apple probably won't. In an interview with the Les Echos newspaper (via CNBC), Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company does not plan …

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

China's Strategy

Beijing likely to pass on Trump invitation to probe Bidens, China experts say

Officials from China and the United States will meet in Washington next week to try negotiate a truce in the trade war. (Reuters Photo: Damir Sagolj) If China were to act on US President Donald Trump’s surprising request on Thursday to start an investigation…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Xi Jinping

Trump reportedly promised China’s president that he’d stay quiet on Hong Kong protests as long as trade war talks progressed

President Donald Trump has offered a muted response to the months-long protests that have rocked Hong Kong since June, and Trump's trade war with China may have been the reason. In a June phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Trump mentioned the pol…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Top EU officials in Turkey to save refugee pact

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said after meeting with his Turkish counterpart that Turkey faced “enormous” migratory pressure, which has increased with new arrivals from Afghanistan and Syria. (Deutsche Welle) Top German and EU officials travelled …

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Paris

Paris police attacker had suffered ‘psychotic fit’, says wife

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Dozens of police and emergency services converged at the scene The wife of a police employee who killed four colleagues at the Paris force's HQ says he had a psychotic episode, was incoherent and heard voices the ni…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Blockchain

PayPal may be getting cold feet over Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra

Facebooks cryptocurrencyLibra is reportedly on the verge of losing another one of its partners after Paypal pulled out of a key meeting in Washington on Thursday. According to the Financial Times, all 28 supporters of Facebooks digital currencyproject were s…

bubmagOctober 4, 2019

Business calendar: Upcoming events in the area – Houston Chronicle

MNF: Auba’s goal at Old Trafford in virtual reality!

Edward Snowden, You Legend!

Ethan Stuart paints “the magical realism” of believing in a higher power

Tim Cook throws shade at Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency

Beijing likely to pass on Trump invitation to probe Bidens, China experts say

Trump reportedly promised China’s president that he’d stay quiet on Hong Kong protests as long as trade war talks progressed

Top EU officials in Turkey to save refugee pact

Paris police attacker had suffered ‘psychotic fit’, says wife

PayPal may be getting cold feet over Facebook’s ‘cryptocurrency’ Libra

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