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Orangutan

Fears grow for orangutans struggling under toxic Indonesian haze

A toxic haze caused by raging forest fires in Indonesia is now starting to affect the health of endangered orangutans in Borneo, an animal welfare group has warned. The fires, usually started by illegal burning to clear land for farming, have spread air pol…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Facebook Portal TV gives you a giant smart display, but I still don’t care – CNET

The $149 Portal TV can connect to the top of your TV or sit below it on your media table. James Martin/CNET In a quaint Victorian house on a quaint park-adjacent corner of San Francisco on Tuesday, Andrew Bozworth, Facebook's VP of AR/VR, and Ryan Cairns, h…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

NASDAQ

Stock Market Falls Ahead Of Fed Decision; This Hot IPO Stock Sells Off On New Facebook Product – Investor’s Business Daily

The stock market eased lower Wednesday, ahead of the Federal Reserve interest rate decision to be announced at 2 p.m. ET. The Dow Jones industrials fell about 60 points in morning trade. Among the Dow Jones stocks, Apple (AAPL) was one of the early winners, …

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Air Pollution

Climate protection and clean air: An integrated approach

by Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. (IASS) From 23 to 25 September 2019, heads of government from around the world will convene at the United Nations General Assembly to discuss efforts to advance climate action and global sustainable develo…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

The Queen

Lost toy monkey gets VIP treatment from Buckingham Palace staff

Savannah Hart, a 5-year-old pupil at Woodside Preschool in south Australia, had taken Harriet -- one of her school's six traveling toy monkeys -- on vacation around Europe when she accidentally left her behind at the Queen's London residence on August 13. A…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Orangutan

The global demand for palm oil is driving the fires in Indonesia

The smoke wafting from fires in the tropical forests of Indonesiaforming plumes big enough to blot out the sky in Malaysia and Singaporeis a reminder of a global supply chain run amok. Whereas the devastating fires burning in the Amazon rainforest were set l…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Little Italy

What does Tom Watson want?

On the afternoon of 19 March 2019, as Labours ruling National Executive Committee assembled, members were ordered to hand over their mobile phones. A deluge of leaks had prompted Jeremy Corbyns team to act. But one person refused to comply: Tom Watson. The pa…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Water Scarcity

We’re Fueling the Next Global Extinction

Smoke rises out of factories in Thailands Chonburi province in this February 2007 photo. (Reuters / Sukree Sukplang) EDITOR’S NOTE: This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the l…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Facebook’s new Portal TV is exactly what I want, finally

When Facebook launched Portal last year, I was equal parts blown away and deeply unimpressed. As a "smart" screen in my house, Portal was laughably bad compared to the Echo Show and Google/Nest Home Hub. But when you fired up a video chat through Facebook Mes…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Machine Learning

Data Versioning and Pipelines in CD4ML

Introduction and Definition In the famous Google paper published by Sculley et al. in 2015 "Hidden Technical Debt in Machine Learning Systems", they highlight that in real-world Machine Learning (ML) systems, only a small fraction is comprised of actua…

bubmagSeptember 18, 2019

Fears grow for orangutans struggling under toxic Indonesian haze

Facebook Portal TV gives you a giant smart display, but I still don’t care – CNET

Stock Market Falls Ahead Of Fed Decision; This Hot IPO Stock Sells Off On New Facebook Product – Investor’s Business Daily

Climate protection and clean air: An integrated approach

Lost toy monkey gets VIP treatment from Buckingham Palace staff

The global demand for palm oil is driving the fires in Indonesia

What does Tom Watson want?

We’re Fueling the Next Global Extinction

Facebook’s new Portal TV is exactly what I want, finally

Data Versioning and Pipelines in CD4ML

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