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NASDAQ

Stocks move lower on economic data, Powell remarks – Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Video courtesy Reuters Wall Street fell today, led by a selloff in tech shares, as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell pushed back on pressure from President Donald Trump to cut interest rates. Technology and internet companies led a …

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Super Komachi

The Exquisite Boxed Meals of Japan’s Train-Station Kiosks

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen, Japan’s famous bullet-train line, flashes past futuristic skyscrapers, Shinto shrines, and lush paddy fields on its 180-miles-per-hour dash from Tokyo to Osaka. This time-defying bolt is vanquished only by the majesty of placid, cloud-…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Big Data

Algorithm designed to map universe, solve mysteries

Cornell University researchers have developed an algorithm designed to visualize models of the universe in order to solve some of physics' greatest mysteries.The algorithm was developed by applying scientific principles used to create models for understanding…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Machine Learning

Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python

This might sound pretty complicated, but building a working version of this with deep learning is actually pretty quick and easy. All the tools are available it is just a matter of knowing where to find the tools and how to put them together. So lets spend a…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Animal Protection

This cat was caught in a “body-gripping” trap for 2 days in Metro Vancouver

The Fur-Bearers has renewed its calls for the City of Delta to take action after a family cat by the name of Blu was grievously injured in a foot-hold trap in Ladner. Photograph: Josie Moubert A local non-profit animal protection group has renewed its calls…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

‘Russia Is an Occupier’: Thousands Fill Georgia’s Capital Against Putin for Fifth Day

Protests began last Thursday in the wake of a visit to the Georgian Parliament by Russian State Duma Deputy Sergei Gavrilov. Gavrilov infuriated Georgians by sitting in Kobakhidze’s seat, one specially reserved for the head of the Georgian Parliament, and add…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

AR-15

Member of ‘militia’ that detained migrants faces jail time for impersonating federal employee – Washington Post

A man approaches a group of apparent migrants along a dusty road. Stop! he yells in Spanish, before identifying himself as U.S. Border Patrol. What are you guys doing? The moment was captured in a video filmed in mid-April, and posted to James Benvies Faceb…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

VR

Valve’s ‘flagship’ Index VR game is the Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

Back when the Valve Index was announced, Valve teased that it was working on a game it described only as a “flagship” VR game due out this year. That game has now been revealed as Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spinoff of Valve’s Portal series intended to tea…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

VR

Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

(Update: An earlier version of this story mistakenly referred to Aperture Hand Lab as the "flagship" title Valve teased alongside the Valve Index reveal, and has since been corrected.) Valve and Cloudhead Games have launched Aperture Hand Lab, a VR-based spi…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Hrant Dink

A Mormon Polygamist Allegedly Ran A $500 Million Scam. Here’s How

Mormon polygamist Jacob Kingston goes to trial in July for a scam involving his entire Mormon clan.Kingston is a member of the Order, an organized crime ring and the largest Mormon polygamist sect in all of Utah.He allegedly collecte…

bubmagJune 25, 2019

Stocks move lower on economic data, Powell remarks – Honolulu Star-Advertiser

The Exquisite Boxed Meals of Japan’s Train-Station Kiosks

Algorithm designed to map universe, solve mysteries

Snagging Parking Spaces with Mask R-CNN and Python

This cat was caught in a “body-gripping” trap for 2 days in Metro Vancouver

‘Russia Is an Occupier’: Thousands Fill Georgia’s Capital Against Putin for Fifth Day

Member of ‘militia’ that detained migrants faces jail time for impersonating federal employee – Washington Post

Valve’s ‘flagship’ Index VR game is the Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

Valve launches VR Portal spinoff Aperture Hand Lab

A Mormon Polygamist Allegedly Ran A $500 Million Scam. Here’s How

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