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Chinese Economy

Global stock markets fall as fears grow around China’s economic slowdown

Stock markets opened lower in Europe after further signals overnight of a marked slowdown in the Chinese economy which has been the engine of global growth. In London the FTSE 100 dropped 0.3 per cent ahead of UK unemployment figures to be released this morn…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

VR

10 things in tech you need to know today

A Reddit comment from EA about "Star Wars: Battlefront 2" was revealed to be the most downvoted comment of all time. EA DICE Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Tuesday. Fifty state attorneys general launched a formal prob…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Hrant Dink

Over 160,000 tourists visit Akdamar Island in 2019

VAN-Anadolu Agency The Akdamar Island located in eastern Van province has drawn more than 160,000 visitors in 2019, an official said. Akdamar, also called peace and serenity, is a prominent destination in belief tourism with a medieval Armenian church and c…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba’s Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty

BEIJING (AP) Alibaba Group founder Jack Ma, who helped launch China's online retailing boom, stepped down as chairman of the world's biggest e-commerce company Tuesday at a time when its fast-changing industry faces uncertainty amid a U.S.-Chinese tariff war.…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Filter Bubble

Living in online filter bubbles

Being presented with our preferred areas only traps us in an online filter bubble. PHOTO: PINTEREST On December 4, 2009, Googles corporate blog released a post that did not receive much fanfare or attention but made sweeping changes in the landscape of the …

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Black Hole

Is LIGO About To Destroy The Theory Of A ‘Mass Gap’ Between Neutron Stars And Black Holes?

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin This simulation shows the radiation emitted from a binary black hole system. In principle, we should have neutron star binaries, black hole binaries, and neutron star-blac…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, who is China’s richest man, retires at age 55

China’s richest man and the poster boy for Chinese entrepreneurship, Jack Ma, has officially retired, reports the BBC. Ma cofounded Alibaba in 1999 when he was just 35 years old. Since then the company has become one of the largest and most well-known tech gi…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Oversized Stadiums

Zlatan Ibrahimovic set to unveil giant bronze statue of himself in Malmö

The former Sweden forward is set to unveil the statue in his hometown of Malmö on October 8th, the Swedish Football Association announced on Monday. The monument to the 116-time international is 2.7 metres tall and weighs 500kg. It will be installed in the …

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Hiroshima

IAEA Confirms Iran Has Begun Installing More Advanced Centrifuges to Produce Enriched Uranium

Sputnik News 12:03 09.09.2019(updated 13:33 09.09.2019) Earlier, an Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation spokesman said Iran would be decreasing its commitments to the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) nuclear deal, in retaliation to the breach…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Google

Google Docs now displays the word count as you type

One of the most frustrating things about Google Docs is having to manually access the menu every time you need to check if you've finally hit that essay's elusive word count. The tech giant is finally fixing that by giving you the ability to display a documen…

bubmagSeptember 10, 2019

Global stock markets fall as fears grow around China’s economic slowdown

10 things in tech you need to know today

Over 160,000 tourists visit Akdamar Island in 2019

Alibaba’s Ma steps down as industry faces uncertainty

Living in online filter bubbles

Is LIGO About To Destroy The Theory Of A ‘Mass Gap’ Between Neutron Stars And Black Holes?

Alibaba chairman Jack Ma, who is China’s richest man, retires at age 55

Zlatan Ibrahimovic set to unveil giant bronze statue of himself in Malmö

IAEA Confirms Iran Has Begun Installing More Advanced Centrifuges to Produce Enriched Uranium

Google Docs now displays the word count as you type

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