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Machine Learning

Adam Cheyer: Samsung’s plan for winning with Bixby is empowering third-party developers

Adam Cheyer, a Brandeis University and UCLA alum with degrees in computer science and AI, knows a thing or two about digital assistants. He previously led the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO) project at SRI International’s Artificial Intel…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

BUK-Missile

Did MH17 passenger predict crash?

A Dutch man's chilling Facebook post before boarding Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 seems to have foreshadowed the tragedy ahead. As passengers started to shuffle towards the boarding gate for Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, it was just another hectic day at…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Holocaust

Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance

Consider how abolition, the great moral crusade of the 19th century, is now taught in schools. The New York State Regents curriculum guide, which shapes public high school education in the state, refers to people who took action to abolish slavery and names f…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Tory leadership hustings: Boris Johnson was as lukewarm as a Rotary Club after-dinner speaker

So a couple of TV firsts there then. The controversial drama critic Kenneth Tynan may have been the first person to utter the F-word on British television back in 1965, but it was left to a Conservative Party activist from the West Midlands to drop an F-bomb …

bubmagJune 22, 2019

SpaceX

NASA just set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches, with SpaceX in the lead

There’s a space race happening right now. It’s not between the United States and Russia, or any nations at all, for that matter, but it’s definitely happening. It’s a race between SpaceX and Boeing to be the first company to deliver a crew-capable spacecraft …

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Elon Musk

The Curiosity rover found a massive spike in methane that could point to life on Mars

The NASA Curiosity rover made a remarkable discovery this week that may hint at signs of life on Mars. The surprising development, reported on by The New York Times, brings legitimacy to the long-held notion that aliens may actually be occupying the red pl…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Refugees

White House Unveils $50 Billion Economic Plan for Palestine

WASHINGTON — The White House on Saturday unveiled a $50 billion Palestinian investment and infrastructure proposal aimed at supporting its much-anticipated but still unreleased “deal of the century” Middle East peace plan. The scheme, which calls for a mix o…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Nukes

‘Let’s make Iran great again’: After calling off Iran strike, Trump said he would be the country’s ‘best friend’ following future nuclear deal

President Donald Trump doubled down on his decision to not issue a retaliatory military strike against Iran after days of back-and-forth over his response to the country's strike on a US drone above or near Iran's territorial waters. Speaking just a day af…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Nukes

Will be Iran’s best friend if it renounces nukes: US

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Hundreds of climate activists occupy giant German coal mine

Garzweiler surface mine (Germany) (AFP) - Several hundred climate activists evaded police to enter an open-cast mine run by energy giant RWE in western Germany Saturday, a day after tens of thousands campaigned against the use of coal. The activists, many dr…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Adam Cheyer: Samsung’s plan for winning with Bixby is empowering third-party developers

Did MH17 passenger predict crash?

Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance

Tory leadership hustings: Boris Johnson was as lukewarm as a Rotary Club after-dinner speaker

NASA just set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches, with SpaceX in the lead

The Curiosity rover found a massive spike in methane that could point to life on Mars

White House Unveils $50 Billion Economic Plan for Palestine

‘Let’s make Iran great again’: After calling off Iran strike, Trump said he would be the country’s ‘best friend’ following future nuclear deal

Will be Iran’s best friend if it renounces nukes: US

Hundreds of climate activists occupy giant German coal mine

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