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Skateboard

Skateboarders raise their game as Olympic qualifiers begin

LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Being an Olympic sport is starting to bring a different vibe to skateboarding. With a promise from the IOC to keep the spirit of the sport intact as it makes its debut at the Tokyo Games next year, skateboarders are raising their ga…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Electric Car

Father of China’s Electric-Car Industry Says His Friend Elon Musk Will Challenge Local Automakers

Father of China's Electric-Car Industry Says His Friend Elon Musk Will Challenge Local Automakers

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Food Industry

The FDA Taps IBM for Pharmaceutical Blockchain Pilot

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants to use blockchain to identify, track, and trace prescription medicines and vaccines distributed throughout the country. International Business Machines(NYSE:IBM), along with Walmart, Merck, and KPMG, have been chose…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Black Hole

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Run D.N.C.

What We’re Following Today It’s Thursday, June 13. (Kevin Lamarque / Reuters / Chip Somodevilla / Getty / The Atlantic ) ‣ President Trump announced in a tweet that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is leaving her job as White House press secretary to return to her home…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Plastic Pollution

‘Recycling Is Like a Band-Aid on Gangrene’

The documentary filmmaker Noah Hutton was at a scientific symposium when he first encountered Max Liboiron. “I kept hearing some of the sharpest, smartest critiques of status-quo assumptions I’ve ever heard,” Hutton told me. “She engaged with oth…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Scotland

Throwing Shade

Hillshading is a gloriously delicious endeavor for any map nerd. But, as is the case with any digital pursuit, it’s in the pushing aside of the defaults that the real devious stuff can happen. In this post we will slide down the rainbow and look for an intere…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

How to Use Flows to Design Great Chatbot Conversations

A human brain and a robot brain: how can they understand each other? Clearly its not easy. Effective communication between robots and people is an art. If you want your virtual assistant to address customers inquiries successfully, you have to design interac…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Times Square

Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Arrested and Charged With Groping a Woman at a New York Nightclub

(NEW YORK) — Cuba Gooding Jr. was arrested Thursday and charged with forcible touching after a woman accused him of groping her at a New York City night spot. Gooding, 51, was charged after turning himself in to investigators in the New York Police Departmen…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Machine Learning

Dataquest: Master Data Cleaning with Our New Python Data Cleaning Advanced Course

Data cleaning. Data cleansing. Data munging. Whatever you call it, theres no denying that the process of taking raw data and turning it into a data set thats ready for analysis is one of the most important tasks of any data job. In fact, it might be the most…

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk announces Fallout Shelter and Cuphead for Telsa – CNET

E3 is in full flight and, to be honest, the last person we expected to arrive announcing new video game launches was Elon Musk. But here we are. Toiday, during a conversation with Bethesda's Todd Howard and Geoff Keighley, Elon Musk announced, firstly that …

bubmagJune 13, 2019

Skateboarders raise their game as Olympic qualifiers begin

Father of China’s Electric-Car Industry Says His Friend Elon Musk Will Challenge Local Automakers

The FDA Taps IBM for Pharmaceutical Blockchain Pilot

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Run D.N.C.

‘Recycling Is Like a Band-Aid on Gangrene’

Throwing Shade

How to Use Flows to Design Great Chatbot Conversations

Cuba Gooding Jr. Is Arrested and Charged With Groping a Woman at a New York Nightclub

Dataquest: Master Data Cleaning with Our New Python Data Cleaning Advanced Course

Elon Musk announces Fallout Shelter and Cuphead for Telsa – CNET

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