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Chinese Economy

Trump delivers hard line on new China tariffs threat

PRESIDENT Donald Trump warned Monday he will slap huge new tariffs on China if his counterpart Xi Jinping doesn’t show up for a planned face-to-face meeting later this month and insisted the Chinese economy will never overtake the United States. Trump delive…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Global Warming

Soot, sulfate, dust and the climate — three ways through the fog

Greenhouse gases might be the main culprits in the rapid warming of our planet, but particles in the air also play a part. Soot, dust, sulfate and other aerosols can both cool the atmosphere and warm it. Yet, nearly 30 years after the first report from the In…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Global Warming

Soot, sulfate, dust and the climate — three ways through the fog

Greenhouse gases might be the main culprits in the rapid warming of our planet, but particles in the air also play a part. Soot, dust, sulfate and other aerosols can both cool the atmosphere and warm it. Yet, nearly 30 years after the first report from the In…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Skateboard

SkateBird gets demo and Kickstarter for its radical ‘birb’ action

SkateBird is one of those indie games that’s attempting to rescue a dying genre. It’s a skateboarding sim that tries to replicate the action of the Tony Hawk games. Only instead of playing as that fraud Hawk, you actually get to play as a bird in this game. …

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Recycling

Single-use plastics ban poses challenge for Canada’s fossil fuel sector – The Globe and Mail

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his government's intention to ban single-use plastics as early as 2021 during a news conference in Mont-Saint-Hilaire, Que., June 10, 2019. Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press The oil industrys next threat could be in t…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Mainstream TV in Russia is heavily controlled by the government, but dissenting voices are regularly heard on YouTube, especially by youths (Neil MacFarquhar/New York Times)

About This Page This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:45 PM ET, June 10, 2019. The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date in…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Putin

Freeland says Canada ‘closely following’ reports of attacks on Russian journalists – Global News

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will speak out about the lack of media freedom in Russia during a conference that Canada is co-hosting next month with Great Britain. Her comments Monday came the same day as Russia’s three major newspapers…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Times Square

‘An explosion like this’ echoes 9/11

New York City Police and Fire Department personnel secure the scene in front of a building in midtown Manhattan where a helicopter crash landed, June 10, 2019. More A tense crash in Manhattan, a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico and a growing crisis o…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

eSports

AMD tells all about its $449 Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU

To be clear, AMD is only target mid-range performance with these GPUs. Its high-end offering is still the Radeon VII, a 7nm card built on its older architecture. But the new cards are still significant for the company, since they're the start of an entirely n…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Julian Assange

U.S. delivers formal extradition request for Julian Assange to U.K. (Washington Post)

memeorandum is an auto-generated summary of the stories that US political commentators are discussing online right now. Unlike sister sites Techmeme ane Mediagazer, it is not a human-edited news outlet, but rather a media-monitoring tool for sophisticated ne…

bubmagJune 11, 2019

Trump delivers hard line on new China tariffs threat

Soot, sulfate, dust and the climate — three ways through the fog

Soot, sulfate, dust and the climate — three ways through the fog

SkateBird gets demo and Kickstarter for its radical ‘birb’ action

Single-use plastics ban poses challenge for Canada’s fossil fuel sector – The Globe and Mail

Mainstream TV in Russia is heavily controlled by the government, but dissenting voices are regularly heard on YouTube, especially by youths (Neil MacFarquhar/New York Times)

Freeland says Canada ‘closely following’ reports of attacks on Russian journalists – Global News

‘An explosion like this’ echoes 9/11

AMD tells all about its $449 Radeon RX 5700 XT GPU

U.S. delivers formal extradition request for Julian Assange to U.K. (Washington Post)

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