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Water Scarcity

Not just pipes and tankers

The 2030 Water Resources Group on Charting Our Water Futures set up by the erstwhile Planning Commission in 2009 had projected that if the current demand pattern for water continues, by 2030, the available water will meet only about half of Indias demand for …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Astroturfing

Reddit Quarantines /r/The_Donald for “Threats of Violence”

About /r/The_Donald is a subreddit on the website Reddit for supporters of United States president-elect Donald Trump. Members of the online community often refer to themselves as "centipedes" and have been associated with the loose conservative group known …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Tech giants face questions on hate speech going into debates – SF Gate

Members of the media gather for a walk-through of the stage set-up for the first democratic debate, Wednesday, June 26, 2019. Ten presidential candidates, led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, are set to converge on the debate stage on the first night of Demo…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Tech giants face questions on hate speech going into debates – Boston.com

WASHINGTON (AP) Executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter faced questioning by a House panel Wednesday on their efforts to stanch terrorist content and viral misinformation on their social media platforms. The scrutiny comes as the tech giants step up safet…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

The broken immigration policies behind that awful photo you keep seeing on social media

The shocking image of a father and daughter from El Salvador lying face down in the water of the Rio Grande serves as a searing reminder of the dangers migrants face when fleeing the violence and poverty in their home countries. It also puts a spotlight on w…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Putin

Trump’s G20 trip doesn’t appear to include a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

President Donald Trump said Saturday he's still considering military action against Iran after it downed an unmanned US military aircraft, saying the use of force is "always on the table until we get this solved." (June 22) AP, AP WASHINGTON President Don…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Plastic Pollution

There’s a Bizarre New Form of Plastic Pollution Colonizing Madeira

Plastic pollution isn’t what it used to be. Sure, there are still plastic bottles bobbing around the Pacific and those cursed balloons from Frozen sunken into the seafloor. But there’s a new generation of plastic that’s a little less obvious and a lot more in…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

LG is working on 5G robots – CNET

LG wants to add 5G connectivity to future robots. David Becker / Getty Images LG is working on 5Grobots, partnering with Korean carrier SK Telecom for the project. LG is planning to commercialize the cloud-based autonomous robots, which will be connected to…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

‘Toy Story 4’ comes to life in AR on Walmart-exclusive party supplies

Brief: Augmented reality entertainment app Mardles added characters from Disney/Pixar's "Toy Story 4" to its lineup to bring to life children's party products sold at Walmart, developer AliveLab said in an announcement shared with sister publication …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Migrant crisis: Senate blocks $4.5bn border aid bill

Image copyrightEPAImage caption Immigration activists have been protesting the detention of child migrants on Capitol Hill The Republican-controlled Senate has rejected a bill designed to send aid to the US border, a day after the world reacted with shock …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Not just pipes and tankers

Reddit Quarantines /r/The_Donald for “Threats of Violence”

Tech giants face questions on hate speech going into debates – SF Gate

Tech giants face questions on hate speech going into debates – Boston.com

The broken immigration policies behind that awful photo you keep seeing on social media

Trump’s G20 trip doesn’t appear to include a meeting with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un

There’s a Bizarre New Form of Plastic Pollution Colonizing Madeira

LG is working on 5G robots – CNET

‘Toy Story 4’ comes to life in AR on Walmart-exclusive party supplies

Migrant crisis: Senate blocks $4.5bn border aid bill

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