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Big Data

Big data says food is too sweet

New research from the Monell Center analyzed nearly 400,000 food reviews posted by Amazon customers to gain real-world insight into the food choices that people make. The findings reveal that many people find the foods in today's marketplace to be too sweet."…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Air Pollution

America’s Leading Medical Groups Declare ‘Public Health Emergency’ Over Climate Change

Climate change is set to make us sicker. There are wildfires and their air pollution; insects and the diseases they spread. Theres drought and the consequences of water shortages, as were seeing in Chennai, India. Heatwaves will likely kill thousands. The imp…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo is partnering with Renault and Nissan to launch it’s global expansion efforts (GOOGL)

Alphabet's self-driving vehicle unit Waymo has entered into a partnership with global automaker Renault and Nissan to jointly explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan, each auto firm's respective home market, according to The Wall Street Journ…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Water Scarcity

Study: A gigantic deposit of fresh water is hidden off the Northeast coast

Under the undrinkably salty water of the ocean off the northeastern coast of the United States lies a gigantic deposit of relatively fresh water, scientists have found. The aquifer, a layer of water-bearing porous sediments, generally begins about 600 feet b…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Times Square

ABC Wins Sunday Ratings With Nik Wallenda’s Live Highwire Act In Times Square

ABC easily won Sunday night — all without a net! Highwire Live in Time Square with Nik Wallenda had audiences sitting at the edge of their seat as they watched circus troupe members Nik Wallenda and Lijana Wallenda walk the highwire 25 stories above street le…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Obamacare

Trump Claims He Saved Obamacare, Despite His Multiple Attempts to Kill It

If you listen to the 45th president of the United States long enough, hell say things that just take your breath away, even taking into account his regularly dishonest approach to facts and even the most recent history. You may recall that he spent a good par…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Star Wars

Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Is Now Open to All

If youre reading this, you can now go to Star Wars: Galaxys Edge. Though the Star Wars-themed section of Disneyland in Anaheim, California has been open for a few weeks, up until today, you needed a reservation to enterand those reservations sold out in two …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Times Square

Are NYC’s Mean Streets Ready For Scooters? I Test Drive Honda’s PCX150 Over Four Of the Five Boroughs

Nobody has to tell anyone that the streets of New York City look like what they are blobs of asphalt in some locales, pummeled by age and excessive traffic, smashed by snowplows, frozen by extreme cold and seared by face-melting heat year in, year out. Still,…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Drones

Slurpees incoming! 7-Eleven begins delivery in public spaces – WDAF FOX4 Kansas City

NEW YORK Craving a Slurpee from but lacking the motivation to get off a park bench? No worries. 7-Eleven launched a delivery service Monday that will send a Slurpee or almost anything else carried by the chain to public places ranging from parks to beaches.…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Big Data

Understanding Cloud Data Services

By Charlie Crocker, Unravel Data. Demystifying Service Offerinces from Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, and Google Cloud Platform In the past five years, a shift in Cloud Vendor offerings has fundamentally changed how companies buy, deploy and run big data syst…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Big data says food is too sweet

America’s Leading Medical Groups Declare ‘Public Health Emergency’ Over Climate Change

Waymo is partnering with Renault and Nissan to launch it’s global expansion efforts (GOOGL)

Study: A gigantic deposit of fresh water is hidden off the Northeast coast

ABC Wins Sunday Ratings With Nik Wallenda’s Live Highwire Act In Times Square

Trump Claims He Saved Obamacare, Despite His Multiple Attempts to Kill It

Disneyland’s Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge Is Now Open to All

Are NYC’s Mean Streets Ready For Scooters? I Test Drive Honda’s PCX150 Over Four Of the Five Boroughs

Slurpees incoming! 7-Eleven begins delivery in public spaces – WDAF FOX4 Kansas City

Understanding Cloud Data Services

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