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China‘s Social Credit System

The Chinese Social Credit System, in particular as presented by Western media, is widely seen as the height of technological dystopia. But is that intuition well founded? Wessel Reijers has sought to identify features that he takes to justify a rejection of t…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Meet the robotic strawberry harvesters that are picking fresh produce — Strictly Robots

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Feudalism

125 Years After the Pullman Uprising, We Could Be on the Verge of Another Sympathy Strike Wave

BY Ryan SmithIn 2019, workers across the U.S. are proving that the legacy of the Great Pullman strike is still alive today. (Wikipedia Commons) Roaming the sleepy streets of Pullman on Chicago’s Southeast Side, it’s difficult to imagine a time when it was…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Little Italy

Take a peek inside Bar Sopra, West Hollywood’s new rooftop lounge

Blackship is already a breezy affair, what with that plant-bedecked patio setting a cool scene for the restaurant, but over the weekend, the space got a little sunnier—and moodier—thanks to a new bar perched atop it all. On Friday night Bar Sopra opened its …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Obamacare

Trump Calls Latest Health Care Executive Order ‘The Opposite Of Obamacare’

President Donald Trump signed an executive order he called “the opposite of Obamacare” that directs the Department of Health and Human Services to create rules increasing transparency in health care pricing Monday. “We will empower patients with the informat…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Seleção

Manchester City at the Copa América: Part 3

Brazil and Argentina Advance to the Knockout Stages Matchday 3 in the 2019 Copa América saw Brazil and Argentina advance to the competition’s knockout stages. In Group A, Brazil took on Peru. Gabriel Jesus started the match and Ederson sat on the bench, but F…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Electric Scooter

Failed Scooter Proves the Worth of Modular Design

Like many mechanically inclined parents, prefers building over buying. So when his son wanted an electric scooter, his first stop wasn’t to the toy store, but to AliExpress for a 48V hub motor kit. Little did he know that the journey to getting…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Border Patrol video shows illegal crosser from Mexico shooting ‘multiple times at the border wall’

After illegally crossing into the United States from Mexico, an armed individual was caught on video "shooting several times toward the border wall" near San Luis, Arizona, early Thursday morning, U.S. Customs and Border Patrol reported. Camera operators vie…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Iran Liberalism

War with Iran will cost more than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Seventeen years ago, a group of neoconservatives surrounding President George W. Bush persuaded him to mount a quick invasion of Iraq in order prevent it from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. That decision, based on dubious intelligence and taken agains…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Trump dismisses Khashoggi investigation, Pompeo doesn’t raise it in Saudi meeting

The murder of Washington Post Jamal Khashoggidid not come up in Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's meeting with the Saudi king on Monday, according to a senior State Department official. Interested in Jamal Khashoggi? Add Jamal Khashoggi as an interest to sta…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Meet the robotic strawberry harvesters that are picking fresh produce — Strictly Robots

125 Years After the Pullman Uprising, We Could Be on the Verge of Another Sympathy Strike Wave

Take a peek inside Bar Sopra, West Hollywood’s new rooftop lounge

Trump Calls Latest Health Care Executive Order ‘The Opposite Of Obamacare’

Manchester City at the Copa América: Part 3

Failed Scooter Proves the Worth of Modular Design

Border Patrol video shows illegal crosser from Mexico shooting ‘multiple times at the border wall’

War with Iran will cost more than the Iraq and Afghanistan wars

Trump dismisses Khashoggi investigation, Pompeo doesn’t raise it in Saudi meeting

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