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Google

Google leaks its own phone

Details of the Pixel 4 have been swirling around this week, so Google has decided to just leak the design of its next phone via its official Twitter account, revealing the backplate and new camera module on the smartphone. “Well, since there seems to be some…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

VR

VR app Virtual Desktop dropping VR streaming feature at Oculus’ behest

The developer of the Oculus Quest app Virtual Desktop is removing the VR streaming feature from the existing app, a change he says was ordered by Oculus. Virtual Desktop was one of a handful of apps available for the Oculus Quest when the standalone VR heads…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Skateboard

SoulCycle is copying an airline strategy to get more out of its most loyal members

SoulCycle is now offering an early-bird booking service for customers who want to secure the best seat in advance. Its so-called "Soul Early" service launched at the beginning of this month. Rather than wait until noon on a Monday to book classes for th…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Paris

The 12 highest-paid soccer players in the world

Team: Paris Saint-Germain Contract: Three years, $20 million (17.7 million) annually Mbappe became the youngest French player at 19 years old to score in a World Cup and second-youngest in a World Cup Final in 2018. He joined Paris Saint-Germain on loan …

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Footage of porous US-Mexico border purportedly shows armed coyote smuggling dozens with ease – Fox News

Footage filmed at a porous section of the U.S. border with Mexico purports to show scores of migrants paying off an armed smuggler – known as a coyote – to come into the U.S., highlighting not only the ease of entry but the flourishing business of the smuggli…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Recycling

Now, pen drop boxes against plastic menace

Stepping up the drive against plastic menace, the district unit of the Haritha Keralam Mission has launched a novel initiative Pen Friend in Kasaragod. Under the drive, used plastic pens will be collected for recycling. Its other objectives include creating…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Electric Car

Why Having Chargers At Small-Town Walmarts Could Help Spur Electric Car Sales

Electric vehicle chargers at a Walmart in Clarksville, IN. Source: Electrify America. Both well-established automakers and high-tech upstart companies alike are planning a slew of new full-electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles for the coming model years in a…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Hiroshima

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

Marines conduct an island seizure exercise in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in 2016. (U.S. Navy Combat Camera photo / Benjamin A. Lewis) Thank you for signing up. For more from The Nation, check out our latest issue. Thank you for sig…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Silk Road

People may have smoked marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago in western China

Mourners gathered at a cemetery in whats now western China around 2,500 years ago to inhale fumes of burning cannabis plants that wafted from small wooden containers. High levels of the psychoactive compound THC in those ignited plants, also known as marijuan…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Silk Road

2,500-year-old tomb offers earliest evidence of humans using cannabis to get high

(CNN)Cannabis has been cultivated as a crop for millennia, but there's been little historical or archeological evidence showing when humans began to use the plant for what it's best known for today: getting high. However, an excavation of a 2,500-year-old t…

bubmagJune 12, 2019

Google leaks its own phone

VR app Virtual Desktop dropping VR streaming feature at Oculus’ behest

SoulCycle is copying an airline strategy to get more out of its most loyal members

The 12 highest-paid soccer players in the world

Footage of porous US-Mexico border purportedly shows armed coyote smuggling dozens with ease – Fox News

Now, pen drop boxes against plastic menace

Why Having Chargers At Small-Town Walmarts Could Help Spur Electric Car Sales

‘This Isn’t Your Island’: Why Northern Mariana Islanders Are Facing Down the US Military

People may have smoked marijuana in rituals 2,500 years ago in western China

2,500-year-old tomb offers earliest evidence of humans using cannabis to get high

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