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Elon Musk

Wealthy Americans don’t have enough time in the day to spend their money, and it’s stressing them out

Stress at work has an income divide. High-earners work more because they feel rushed to make and spend money, while low-earners feel less stress over work, according to economist Daniel Hamermesh, who recently released his book " S pending Time: The Most V…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Monsanto

San Fransisco breaks its e-cigarette habit

San Fransisco-based Juul and other e-cigarette companies were given a swift kick in the stones today by the Golden Gate City as San Francisco became the first city in the United States to ban the sale of electronic cigarettes within its borders. From The Ne…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Hiroshima

‘Wake Up Before it is Too Late’: Tusk Warns the World Has Come Close to the Brink

On 9 August 1945, a US bomber dropped a 21-kiloton atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing approximately 70,000 people and leaving thousands of others injured. Earlier that month, about 140,000 people died following the US dropping a nuclear bom…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Palestine

FIFA President Gianni Infantino says world governing body on-board with White House to build football pitches in Palestine

Bahrain: The head of FIFA promised Wednesday to build more football pitches in the Palestinian territories as he joined a US-led economic workshop in Bahrain on drawing investment. Gianni Infantino, president of world football's governing body, took part in …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Venezuela

All the Internet shutdowns of 2019 so far

The Internet is one of the few places where information can spread freely, which might explain why authoritarian governments are blocking it more often. We look at some of the countries that have suffered Internet blackouts this year. It is still impossible …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Climate Change

How 21 Democrats Answered Our Questions Before the Debates

No: 11 candidates (Bennet, Booker, Bullock, Buttigieg, Castro, Gabbard, Gillibrand, Klobuchar, ORourke, Sanders, Warren) Yes or maybe, but limited: 7 candidates (Delaney, Harris, Hickenlooper, Inslee, Moulton, Ryan, Swalwell) In Kamala…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Palestine

Oman to open embassy in occupied West Bank

Oman will open an embassy in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, the sultanate's foreign ministry said. The decision announced on Wednesday was made "in continuation of the sultanate's support for the Palestinian people" it said. "A delegation from the…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Palestine

Will open embassy in Palestinian territories, says Oman

Oman said Wednesday that it has decided to open an embassy in the Palestinian territories in support of the Palestinian people, in a first for a Gulf Arab state. The announcement coincides with a US-led economic workshop in Bahrain to unveil a Middle East pe…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

CCTV

ATM Shimmers Supplanting Skimmers

Automated tellersliteral money machinescannot help but be a target for crime. Most are filled with money and run on software that contains exploitable security vulnerabilities or hardware that can be tampered with by hackers. Or bad guys can try to outright s…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

NSA

The NSA can’t seem to stop snooping on our phone call records

The National Security Agency improperly collected information on people’s phone calls in October 2018, the American Civil Liberties said Wednesday, citing an NSA document it had received through a Freedom of Information Act request.It was apparently the secon…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Wealthy Americans don’t have enough time in the day to spend their money, and it’s stressing them out

San Fransisco breaks its e-cigarette habit

‘Wake Up Before it is Too Late’: Tusk Warns the World Has Come Close to the Brink

FIFA President Gianni Infantino says world governing body on-board with White House to build football pitches in Palestine

All the Internet shutdowns of 2019 so far

How 21 Democrats Answered Our Questions Before the Debates

Oman to open embassy in occupied West Bank

Will open embassy in Palestinian territories, says Oman

ATM Shimmers Supplanting Skimmers

The NSA can’t seem to stop snooping on our phone call records

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