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Star Wars

Disney World is launching new ‘Star Wars’ treats for the opening of ‘Galaxy’s Edge’ including lightsaber churros

Disney is launching "Star Wars" treats for the opening of "Galaxy's Edge," a new 14-acre immersive "land" based on the "Star Wars" universe and located within Hollywood Studios in Disney World. The offerings at the Florida park include dishes such as churr…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

I was an Orthodox man, now I’m the religious woman I was born to be

JERUSALEM (JTA) As a spiritual activist, I feel a deep calling to build bridges between people and their inner selves. My own story involves building and crossing many bridges. Gender identity dysphoria accompanied me at birth 68 years ago, severely impactin…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Drones

Wireless carriers ready drones to restore service…

Wireless carriers ready drones to restore service...

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Exoskeleton

Pentagon’s DARPA Needs Your Underground Bunker for ‘Experimentation’ By Friday

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the so-called mad science wing of the US Defense Department, put out a request Wednesday for tips regarding urban tunnels and facilities able to host research and experimentation. Oh, and they need them b…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Putin

Russia set to offer submarines during Modi-Putin summit

Russia is likely to offer India its conventional submarines on the government-to-government route under the Navys Project-75I at the summit between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Vladimir Putin at Vladivostok next week, Russian officials said. Ru…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Virtual Reality

Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov has been accused of sexual assault after an Oculus event in 2016; Facebook confirms he left the company earlier this year (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

How King Of Fighters Dominated Latin America’s Fighting Game Scene

Whats the fighting game you remember the most from the arcades of your youth? Street Fighter II? Tekken? Mortal Kombat? If youre from Latin America, theres an excellent chance that the first game that jumps to mind wasnt any of those, and the game that define…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Blastoma

‘Ground Zero’: Report from the former Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan

Moscow-400, Semipalatinsk-21, End of the Line, Kurchatov City. All these are the names for a top-secret city built on the banks of the Irtysh River in the north-east of Kazakhstan after the Second World War. Living there were Soviet scientists and members of …

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Singapore

A Reckoning over Hong Kong Is Coming and It Will Take China’s Economy with It

The situation in Hong Kong is disconcerting for Chinas government: what started as a protest in opposition to a controversial extradition bill has morphed into nothing less than an outright revolt against the citys indirect rule by mainland authorities. The o…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Korean War

Margaret Bourke-White, Fearless Photographer

Yesterday I linked to a thread discussing old school bloggers who are still active. One of the best of the old guard is very much still at it: Alan Taylor. Taylor has been curating photographic essays the The Atlantic for more than 8 years — and for several y…

bubmagAugust 29, 2019

Disney World is launching new ‘Star Wars’ treats for the opening of ‘Galaxy’s Edge’ including lightsaber churros

I was an Orthodox man, now I’m the religious woman I was born to be

Wireless carriers ready drones to restore service…

Pentagon’s DARPA Needs Your Underground Bunker for ‘Experimentation’ By Friday

Russia set to offer submarines during Modi-Putin summit

Oculus co-founder Michael Antonov has been accused of sexual assault after an Oculus event in 2016; Facebook confirms he left the company earlier this year (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

How King Of Fighters Dominated Latin America’s Fighting Game Scene

‘Ground Zero’: Report from the former Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan

A Reckoning over Hong Kong Is Coming and It Will Take China’s Economy with It

Margaret Bourke-White, Fearless Photographer

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