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Blockchain

Facebook hires lobbying firm to help sweet talk cryptocurrency regulators

Facebooks cryptocurrency Libra is facing an ever growing mountain of regulatory challenges. It seems it needs a helping hand, as its hired a specialist firm to lobby Washington directly. According to registration documents filed earlier this week, Facebook w…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Fortnite

Fortnite’s new crossover event is advertising Borderlands 3

Epic have long sold Fortnite as an advertising platform through crossover events, but the latest stands out from prior crossovers by advertising another video game. The FortniteXMayhem event is now live, turning a corner of the map into a Borderlands 3 cartoo…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Virtual Reality

What You Need to Know About Investing in Virtual Reality Technology

Virtual reality (VR) is already a multibillion-dollar business, but it has only scratched the surface of its potential. According to Statista, in 2018, 4.7 million headsets were sold worldwide, and that was before the launch of several more-affordable full VR…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Yellow Vests

A climate of repression: how France undermined human rights at the G7

As French president Emmanuel Macron welcomed international leaders, including Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, to a seaside G7 summit in Biarritz, southwestern France, thousands marched on 24 August in neighbouring cities Bayonne and Hendaye to protest against…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Food Industry

Eva Longoria Will Direct a Flaming Hot Cheetos Biopic | CBR

Eva Longoria will be helming the upcoming Fox Searchlight biopic Flamin Hot, which tells the story of Richard Montanez, the creator of the Flamin Hot Cheetos snack food. Originally a janitor working at Frito-Lay, Richard would one day dream up the idea of Fl…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

NASDAQ

Market Snapshot: Stock futures seesaw as investors gauge trade fight, economic data

Stock-index futures traded near unchanged Tuesday as investors attempted to make sense of the U.S.-China trade fight and keep a wary eye on global economic data as fears of a slowdown mount. Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average YMU19, -0.01% were …

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Nukes

Kashmir, rugged and beautiful, is a ticking time bomb between India and Pakistan

Theres so much beauty in Kashmir. But devastating, hate-filled actions have overtaken this contested land, putting Muslims in particular at risk. When Americans hear the news about Kashmir a flashpoint of Indo-Pakistan conflict they simply move on to the ne…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini allies call for protests as Italy inches towards new government without him

When he withdrew his support and declared the coalition dead this month, Mr Salvinis hope was that the country would go to new elections, which would likely have crowned him prime minister as the head of a hard-Right coalition with the Brothers of Italy party…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Panda

Berlin Zoo confirms panda Meng Meng is pregnant

"We are delighted with the news," said Berlin Zoo director Andreas Knieriem after an ultrasound scan confirmed the pregnancy. Berlin Zoo says the size of the foetus and the results of hormonal analysis suggest the birth will take place within a fortnight. T…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Sir Bradley Wiggins training to be social worker

Sir Bradley Wiggins has begun training as a social worker in his latest career move. Having briefly tried his hand at rowing, the first Brit to ever win the Tour de France has enrolled to do a social work degree. Wiggins, who has been very vocal about the to…

bubmagAugust 27, 2019

Facebook hires lobbying firm to help sweet talk cryptocurrency regulators

Fortnite’s new crossover event is advertising Borderlands 3

What You Need to Know About Investing in Virtual Reality Technology

A climate of repression: how France undermined human rights at the G7

Eva Longoria Will Direct a Flaming Hot Cheetos Biopic | CBR

Market Snapshot: Stock futures seesaw as investors gauge trade fight, economic data

Kashmir, rugged and beautiful, is a ticking time bomb between India and Pakistan

Matteo Salvini allies call for protests as Italy inches towards new government without him

Berlin Zoo confirms panda Meng Meng is pregnant

Sir Bradley Wiggins training to be social worker

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