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Self-driving Vehicles

Toyota and Suzuki partner up on autonomy with capital alliance

TOKYO Toyota and Suzuki will take small equity stakes in each other, the Japanese car makers said on Wednesday, as they seek to develop newer technologies and meet sweeping changes upending the global auto industry. The tie-up is the latest example of automa…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Singapore

How the global battle for the Arctic became the new Cold War

In 2016 North Korea became a signatory to a century-old agreement governing Svalbard, a smattering of frozen fjords, glaciers and islands in the High Arctic. The Svalbard Treaty of 1920 is an unusual document: it recognises Norwegian sovereignty over the terr…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

NATO

WSJ: Mattis says he ‘did as well as I could for as long as I could’ under Trump

Washington (CNN)Former Defense Secretary James Mattis, who resigned last year citing irreconcilable policy differences with President Donald Trump, on Wednesday rejected Trump's preference for American isolationism, writing in a new essay that the US is "at i…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich fined $7,985 for assaulting escort in Frankfurt hotel

Berlin: Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has been fined for attacking an escort in a Frankfurt hotel room, it emerged Wednesday. File image of Jan Ullrich. Reuters In a statement, the state prosecutor in Frankfurt said without naming the a…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Bees

Why Donald Trump poses a significant threat to the welfare of bees

Over the past decade, the general public has started to look at bees differently. In response to the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) crisis that emerged in the Noughties, when huge numbers of bees disappeared, and a growing sense of the threat to agriculture t…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

What is Alexa? How it works and what it can do

Alexa is an artificial intelligence (AI) service powered by Amazon's vast cloud computing infrastructure. It was unveiled to the world in late 2014 when Amazon introduced the Echo smart speaker through an invitation-only offering to Prime subscribers, and it …

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Bees

Half a billion bees die in Brazil over three months in environmental catastrophe

More than 500 million bees have died in Brazil in the past three months. Since May beekeepers across four of the country's states have reported the insects dying in vast numbers. In the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul alone as many as 400 million bees h…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Unprepared for ‘life-or-death’ rating…

Foreign businesses in China are ill-prepared for the tough sanctions and constant surveillance demanded by a social credit system to be rolled out this year, a European business group warned Wednesday. Under this new system for ranking businesses, both forei…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Sport24.co.za | Disgraced cyclist Ullrich fined for attack on escort

Berlin - Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich has been fined for attacking an escort in a Frankfurt hotel room, it emerged on Wednesday. In a statement, the state prosecutor in Frankfurt said without naming the accused that a former Germa…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Former German cycling star fined for attacking escort at Frankfurt hotel

In a statement, the state prosecutor in Frankfurt said without naming the accused that a former German professional cyclist had been fined 7,200 on suspicion of bodily harm and attempted duress. Ullrich, 45, had been placed under investigation for having att…

bubmagAugust 28, 2019

Toyota and Suzuki partner up on autonomy with capital alliance

How the global battle for the Arctic became the new Cold War

WSJ: Mattis says he ‘did as well as I could for as long as I could’ under Trump

Disgraced former Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich fined $7,985 for assaulting escort in Frankfurt hotel

Why Donald Trump poses a significant threat to the welfare of bees

What is Alexa? How it works and what it can do

Half a billion bees die in Brazil over three months in environmental catastrophe

Sport24.co.za | Disgraced cyclist Ullrich fined for attack on escort

Former German cycling star fined for attacking escort at Frankfurt hotel

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