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Trade War

Trade War, Brazil, Taylor Swift: Your Friday Evening Briefing

6. They had been made black by those who believed themselves to be white. And where they were headed, black equaled slave. Were introducing a special audio series, 1619, which is a companion piece to our exploration about the legacy of American slavery. In o…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Elon Musk

Walmart and Tesla are going to try and work things out

Walmart came out swinging earlier this week in a lawsuit that accused Tesla of breach of contract and gross negligence over problems with rooftop solar panel systems installed at the retail giant’s stores. Now, just days later, the lawsuit has been placed on…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Star Wars

Disney+ to Allow Up to Four Streams at Once on Up to Ten Devices… – wdwnt.com

This post may contain affiliate links; please read the disclosure for more information. There’ll be no need to fight over control of the Disney+ account. According to The Streamable‘s Stephanie Sengwe, Disney+ will allow for up to four simultaneous streams o…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Cold War

Trump needs to stop playing China’s tariff game – Washington Examiner

Trade wars are rarely good and never easy to win, but theyre a lot costlier and harder to win when were going against a country like China. The Peoples Republic of China is an undemocratic state with a centrally planned economy run by the Communist Party. Mo…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

In case you missed it: our conference call on autonomous vehicles

Despite decades of interest in self-driving cars, the first large-scale attempt at producing them yielded little more than a series of broken promises. Now, autonomous-vehicle companies are giving the concept a reboot, learning from past mistakes and charting…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Climate Change

Europe’s Response to the Amazon Fires Shows How to Get Tough on Climate Change Outlaws

French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attend a meeting on the digital economy at the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28. The Demoralizing Reality of Life Under Trump What Republicans Really Mean W…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Animal Protection

More than 40 wild burros slaughtered in the Southern California desert; reward offered

More than 40 wild burros have been found shot and killed along the Interstate 15 near the Nevada state line, Federal officials said on Friday, and theyve offered a reward of up to $18,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsib…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Filter Bubble

How Algorithms Amplify Our Own Biases And Shape What We See Online

The following is an excerpt from Kris Shaffer’s book, Data Versus Democracy: How Big Data Algorithms Shape Opinions and Alter the Course of History. It is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Much of the media we engage with today is se…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Moscow after convoy targeted in Syria

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will visit Moscow on Tuesday for a meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, the Turkish presidency has said, days after a Turkish convoy was nearly hit by air raids in the Syrian province of Idlib. Friday's announce…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Nukes

After a String of Nuclear Incidents, Russia Just Launched a Floating Nuclear Power Plant. Is It Safe?

On Friday, an unusual kind of vessel set sail from the Arctic city of Murmansk, Russia, for a destination in the countrys far easta floating nuclear power plant equipped with two reactors. The vessel, dubbed the Akademik Lomonosov, is set to travel about 2,9…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Trade War, Brazil, Taylor Swift: Your Friday Evening Briefing

Walmart and Tesla are going to try and work things out

Disney+ to Allow Up to Four Streams at Once on Up to Ten Devices… – wdwnt.com

Trump needs to stop playing China’s tariff game – Washington Examiner

In case you missed it: our conference call on autonomous vehicles

Europe’s Response to the Amazon Fires Shows How to Get Tough on Climate Change Outlaws

More than 40 wild burros slaughtered in the Southern California desert; reward offered

How Algorithms Amplify Our Own Biases And Shape What We See Online

Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Moscow after convoy targeted in Syria

After a String of Nuclear Incidents, Russia Just Launched a Floating Nuclear Power Plant. Is It Safe?

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