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Blockchain

Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet

Facebook has announced its cryptocurrencyLibra and a global association of organizations that will govern it. The company also announced Calibra, a new subsidiary that will build a digital wallet for Messenger, WhatsApp, and a standalone app on iOS and Androi…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Venezuela

U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage that is Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective

Illustration by Nathaniel St. Clair While the mystery of who is responsible for sabotaging the two tankers in the Gulf of Oman remains unsolved, it is clear that the Trump administration has been sabotaging Iranian oil shipments since May 2, when it announce…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Global Warming

Grow Faster, Grow Stronger: Speed-Breeding Crops to Feed the Future

This is easier said than done for some crops. Potatoes and some other crops, such as alfalfa, are tetraploids, carrying four copies of each chromosome. (Humans and most animals are diploid, with two chromosomes, one from each parent). A breeder might want to …

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Korean War

Waves of Chinese tourists invade North Korea

PYONGYANG: On a grey stone column in Pyongyang, a mural shows Chinese and North Korean soldiers rushing into battle against US-led forces in the Korean War. Decades later, the monument is a regular stop for new waves of Chinese going to the North, this time a…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

NSA

U.S. Government Announces Critical Warning For Microsoft Windows Users

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin The United States Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has gone public with a warning to Microsoft Windows users regarding a critical security vulnera…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo at last fires up the self-driving smarts of the Jaguar I-Pace

It’s been more than a year since Waymo unveiled a partnership with Jaguar to use its electric I-Pace crossover as part of its autonomous car fleet. While it took delivery of several of these vehicles in July 2018, for a long time it only used them with human…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Korean War

Seoul: 2 North Korean fishermen defect to South Korea

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) South Korea said Tuesday two of four North Korean fishermen who were rescued off a boat drifting in South Korean waters will remain in the country after expressing their desire to defect. Seoul's Unification Ministry said the two othe…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

China’s Xi to visit North Korea this week ahead of G20

Xi Jinping will make the first trip to North Korea by a Chinese president in 14 years this week, state media said Monday, as Beijing tightens relations with Pyongyang amid tensions with the United States. Xi will visit Pyongyang on Thursday and Friday at the…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Hrant Dink

10 European Countries That No Longer Exist

The 19th and 20th centuries were a period of unprecedented change in human history. In 1807, the Napoleonic Wars were raging; in 2007, smartphones were becoming a thing. No other era in human history comes close to matching this rate of change. And in no oth…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Alibaba

Alibaba puts CFO in charge of investment in major management reshuffle

BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s Alibaba Group Holding Ltd on Tuesday unveiled its most significant business reshuffle since co-founder Jack Ma announced his pending retirement, as the e-commerce firm looks to bolster its investment focus in the face of s…

bubmagJune 18, 2019

Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency and Calibra digital wallet

U.S. Sanctions: Economic Sabotage that is Deadly, Illegal and Ineffective

Grow Faster, Grow Stronger: Speed-Breeding Crops to Feed the Future

Waves of Chinese tourists invade North Korea

U.S. Government Announces Critical Warning For Microsoft Windows Users

Waymo at last fires up the self-driving smarts of the Jaguar I-Pace

Seoul: 2 North Korean fishermen defect to South Korea

China’s Xi to visit North Korea this week ahead of G20

10 European Countries That No Longer Exist

Alibaba puts CFO in charge of investment in major management reshuffle

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