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Recycling

Review: Toy Story 4 has an existential crisis… and it’s entertaining – NOW Magazine

TOY STORY 4 (Josh Cooley). 100 minutes. Opens Friday (June 21). See listing. Rating: NNNN We need to talk about Forky. Forky, the patchwork plaything at the centre of Toy Story 4, is unique among the self-aware characters of Pixars flagship franchise. He kn…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Blockchain

Blockchain’s Role In Recruiting

Blockchain is surging in acceptance a recent Deloitte survey showed a 2000% increase in interest in the technology since 2013. In recent years, the crypto-born technology steadily infiltrated the worlds of finance, energy and real estate, but we are just now …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Big Data

Mnist Reborn, Restored and Expanded: Additional 50K Training Samples

The MNIST dataset of handwritten digits has been used as a standard machine learning benchmark for over two decades. It has a training set of 60,000 examples and a test set of 10,000 examples. This relatively small number of test images has however come under…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Silk Road

The US Is Now India’s Number One Trading Partner and Ally, Jeopardizing Russia’s Pipeline Plans

Russias Return to South Asia was supposed to see it build the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline as a means of promoting peaceful multipolar regional integration, but the US is about to jeopardize this plan after it was disclosed just days before Pompeos …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Scotland

The Isle of Wight is awarded Unesco Biosphere Reserve status

The Isle of Wight has been awarded Biosphere Reserve status by Unesco. It was handed the accolade by the United Nations body in recognition of its 'strong tradition of environmental action'. The island is now one of just seven areas in the UK to be given th…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Tusk pushes against Franco-German tussle over top EU jobs

By Philip Blenkinsop, Jean-Baptiste Vey and Andreas Rinke BRUSSELS/PARIS/BERLIN (Reuters) - European Council President Donald Tusk put pressure on EU leaders on Wednesday to swiftly agree on who should hold the bloc's top jobs but a tug-of-war between German…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians

Pretty much everything about making a self-driving car is difficult, but among the most difficult parts is making sure the vehicles know what pedestrians are doing and what they’re about to do. Humanising Autonomy specializes this, and hopes to become a ubiqu…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Machine Learning

Shopify to launch warehouse network for merchant clients – The Globe and Mail

Shopify Inc. will spend more than $1-billion over the next few years to build a network of warehouses to store and ship the products of its merchant clients, adding to the companys attempts to become a global alternative to Amazon.com Inc. for entrepreneurs. …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

New York City

How ‘Innocent Picture Snapping’ Became A Massive Archive Of Gay Life In New York

Photographer Stanley Stellar has spent decades capturing gay life in New York City. He and his camera have been witness to the sexual awakening that took place on the piers on Manhattans West Side during the 70s, the growing openness and expression of sexuali…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Animal Protection

Meet the Ocelot: The Cutest Little Big Cat

In the process of researching this story, I fell in love. The object of my newfound affection: the kitten-faced, spotted coat cutie known as the ocelot. Formally known as Leopardus pardalis, this little-known feline beauty may not be a household name like its…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Review: Toy Story 4 has an existential crisis… and it’s entertaining – NOW Magazine

Blockchain’s Role In Recruiting

Mnist Reborn, Restored and Expanded: Additional 50K Training Samples

The US Is Now India’s Number One Trading Partner and Ally, Jeopardizing Russia’s Pipeline Plans

The Isle of Wight is awarded Unesco Biosphere Reserve status

Tusk pushes against Franco-German tussle over top EU jobs

Humanising Autonomy pulls in $5M to help self-driving cars keep an eye on pedestrians

Shopify to launch warehouse network for merchant clients – The Globe and Mail

How ‘Innocent Picture Snapping’ Became A Massive Archive Of Gay Life In New York

Meet the Ocelot: The Cutest Little Big Cat

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