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Big Data

How Big Data Can Affect Your Bank Account—and Life

Mustafa loves good coffee. In his free time, he often browses high-end coffee machines that he cannot currently afford but is saving for. One day, traveling to a friends wedding abroad, he gets to sit next to another friend on the plane. When Mustafa complain…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Voyage raises $31 million to bring driverless taxis to communities

Voyage, the autonomous vehicle startup that spun out of Udacity, announced Thursday it has raised $31 million in a round led by Franklin Templeton. Khosla Ventures, Jaguar Land-Rovers InMotion Ventures, and Chevron Technology Ventures also participated in th…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Barack Obama

Obama administration officials called Elizabeth Warren ‘sanctimonious’ and a ‘condescending narcissist’

While she speaks positively of him on the campaign trail now, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former President Barack Obama maintained a tumultuous and often testy relationship over the administration's handling of the last financial crisis, according to a lengthy …

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Water Scarcity

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2019

Patient readers, today is a travel day for me, so I haven’t done anything time-stamped. As you caen see, I’ve basically thrown together today’s meal from random oddments I found in the fridge. Be sure to tune in at 7:30PM for tonight’s debate (when the post g…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Bubble

Startup Life Stories: 10 Startups Share The Greatest Opportunities In PropTech

Pop Art style comic book panel gossip man whispering secret or news in ear of surprised person with speech bubble, rumour, word of mouth, fake news concept vector illustration Getty Its been a while since the last #StartupLife column. In the previous instal…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Palestine

Three relatives charged over ‘honour’ killing of 21-year-old woman

Three people, all relatives, are being charged in the death of a 21-year-old woman in a suspected "honour killing" in a village near the Palestinian town of Bethlehem. Make-up artist Israa Ghrayeb died last month after being taken to hospital with severe wo…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Global Warming

Warming from loss

Arctic sea ice is disappearing at an alarming rate, a situation with many potential consequences including an acceleration of warming due to a decrease in albedo. Pedersen and Christensen used a suite of climate models to study how sea ice loss in various reg…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Water Pollution

A global perspective on tropical montane rivers

Abstract Tropical montane rivers (TMR) are born in tropical mountains, descend through montane forests, and feed major rivers, floodplains, and oceans. They are characterized by rapid temperature clines and varied flow disturbance regimes, both of which prom…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Orangutan

Accusations fly over threat to rarest great ape

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

Fortnite

Gears 5 dethrones Fortnite as most-played Xbox One game

Gears 5 is a third-person shooter from The Coalition.The game features a lot of new additions to its campaign and multiplayer. Its Ultimate Edition beat Fortnite to become the most-played game on Xbox One. You can purchase X…

bubmagSeptember 12, 2019

How Big Data Can Affect Your Bank Account—and Life

Voyage raises $31 million to bring driverless taxis to communities

Obama administration officials called Elizabeth Warren ‘sanctimonious’ and a ‘condescending narcissist’

2:00PM Water Cooler 9/12/2019

Startup Life Stories: 10 Startups Share The Greatest Opportunities In PropTech

Three relatives charged over ‘honour’ killing of 21-year-old woman

Warming from loss

A global perspective on tropical montane rivers

Accusations fly over threat to rarest great ape

Gears 5 dethrones Fortnite as most-played Xbox One game

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