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Cold War

Star Wars: The evolution of the Death Star reflects Hollywood’s growing fears of a climate apocalypse

Science fiction films are rarely about the future. Their distant planets and remote time periods instead seem to reflect upon the concerns and anxieties of the contemporary moment. For instance, 1978's Invasion of the Bodysnatchers played on the US public's f…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Neymar

Big five leagues spend over 5 billion Euros for first time

Antoine Griezmann was one of number big money signings during the summer transfer window. Photo by David Ramos/Getty Images European clubs from the "big five" leagues spent over 5 billion during the summer transfer window for the first time, according to a D…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

AI Stats News: 56% Of US Companies Doing Business In China Worry About Cross-Border Data Flows

Recent surveys, studies, forecasts and other quantitative assessments of the health and progress of AI highlighted the concerns of US companies doing business in China, the confidence of psychiatrists in their jobs resistance to AI displacement, and the burst…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Machine Learning

Microsoft is pushing AI to the farthest edge – Stacey on IoT

Counting cars on battery-powered sensors can’t happen today, but Microsoft Research is working on ways to take machine learning to the smallest sensors out there. Microsoft Research, the research arm of the software giant, is taking a counterintuitive approa…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Skateboard

Tigers Prospect Dies After Electric Skateboard Accident

Chace Numata, a catcher in the Detroit Tigers organization, died Monday from injuries he sustained in a skateboarding accident early Friday morning. He was 27 years old. Numata, who split time this season between Double-A Erie and Triple-A Toledo, was riding…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Scotland

Women ‘attacked for wearing hijabs’ in London suffer possible broken ribs and internal bleeding

Police have released an image of a woman they would like to speak to over a racially aggravated assault that left one victim with potentially broken ribs and a second with internal bleeding. The two women were attacked at around 5.30pm on 23 August as they p…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Climate Change

Manage Climate Change Anxiety With These Cold-War Coping Techniques

For many viewers, watching Chernobyl crystallized parallels between widespread cultural panic around the nuclear threat and what were feeling now in the face of climate change. For veteran activists and therapists, the link has been clear for some time. Max …

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Monsanto

Bayer hires former J&J executive for more pharma deals

FRANKFURT: Bayer said it hired Johnson & Johnson executive Marianne De Backer to manage acquisitions and licensing deals at its drugs unit, as the German drugmaker turns to outside sources to boost its development pipeline. De Backer will take the role o…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Neymar

Clubs in big five leagues spend record amount

European clubs from the "big five" leagues spent over 5 billion during the summer transfer window for the first time, according to a Deloitte report. Clubs from the Premier League, La Liga, Bundesliga, Serie A and Ligue 1 broke the previous record by 0.9bn, …

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Scotland

Suicide rates match a spike in anti-depressants. Look to austerity for the cause not lifestyle ‘choices’

Perhaps the greatest achievement of our time is the gains made in life expectancy. We are living much longer than our Victorian counterparts who were lucky to see their forties. Double that life span is now the norm. But this advance is not shared by all part…

bubmagSeptember 3, 2019

Star Wars: The evolution of the Death Star reflects Hollywood’s growing fears of a climate apocalypse

Big five leagues spend over 5 billion Euros for first time

AI Stats News: 56% Of US Companies Doing Business In China Worry About Cross-Border Data Flows

Microsoft is pushing AI to the farthest edge – Stacey on IoT

Tigers Prospect Dies After Electric Skateboard Accident

Women ‘attacked for wearing hijabs’ in London suffer possible broken ribs and internal bleeding

Manage Climate Change Anxiety With These Cold-War Coping Techniques

Bayer hires former J&J executive for more pharma deals

Clubs in big five leagues spend record amount

Suicide rates match a spike in anti-depressants. Look to austerity for the cause not lifestyle ‘choices’

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