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Google Investors’ Call for China Rights Assessment Fails

Last year, leaked plans for “Project Dragonfly,” a China-focused Google search product, triggered a fierce backlash within and beyond the company against proposed censorship and surveillance functions, and the unusual sidelining of the companys privacy and se…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Has ‘the sacrificial lamb’ arrived?: UN cites new recordings in Jamal Khashoggi murder

Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered last October Moments before Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed and dismembered last October, two of his suspected murderers waiting at the kingdom’s Istanbul consulate fretted about the task at hand, accord…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Machine Learning

Bot war: Here’s how you can theoretically use adversarial AI to evade YouTube’s hard-line copyright-detecting AI

Analysis YouTube is understood to use machine-learning algorithms to identify copyrighted material in user-uploaded videos, so that, in theory at least, any artists featured are properly compensated for their work. This system works more or less, though it is…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Electric Car

India And Australia Strike Their First Lithium Deal To Meet Future Demand For Electric Car Batteries

India and Australia are joining together in a deal which could see Australian lithium used in the first Indian refinery to produce battery grade material for electric cars.Neometals, an Australian company with an interest in the Mt Marion lithium mine near Ka…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Korean War

China president’s North Korea visit a show of unity against the USA

China president's North Korea visit a show of unity against the USA

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels for a two-day summit, amid signs they are moving closer to nominating the next president of the European Commission, as well as other top political posts. The outgoing President of the European Council, Donald Tusk has indi…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Fortnite

League Of Legends’ Version Of Auto Chess Has Taken Over Twitch

We have a habit, in the gaming industry, of declaring things The Year Of ___. 2013 was The Year Of Luigi. 2014 was The Year Of Luigis Death Stare. 2019 is The Year Of Gooigi. However, if Gooigi had not transformed into an unassailable, medium-defining phenome…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels for a two-day summit, amid signs they are moving closer to nominating the next president of the European Commission, as well as other top political posts. The outgoing President of the European Council, Donald Tusk has indi…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

CCTV

Converged security takes centre stage at IFSEC – TeckView

In a digital era, combining physical and cyber intelligence is key to overcoming modern security management challenges, according to a panel of industry experts. Change is the only constant, and the way to deal with that is by converging physical and cyber s…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

VR

You Can Now Play Mass Effect 2 In First-Person

The Mass Effect games are third-person by design, but that hasnt stopped LordEmil1 from creating a mod that lets PC gamers play the best of themMass Effect 2from a first-person perspective. You cant play the whole game like this, as combat isnt working prope…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Google Investors’ Call for China Rights Assessment Fails

Has ‘the sacrificial lamb’ arrived?: UN cites new recordings in Jamal Khashoggi murder

Bot war: Here’s how you can theoretically use adversarial AI to evade YouTube’s hard-line copyright-detecting AI

India And Australia Strike Their First Lithium Deal To Meet Future Demand For Electric Car Batteries

China president’s North Korea visit a show of unity against the USA

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

League Of Legends’ Version Of Auto Chess Has Taken Over Twitch

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

Converged security takes centre stage at IFSEC – TeckView

You Can Now Play Mass Effect 2 In First-Person

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