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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 country’s far east––a floating nuclear power plant equipped with two reactors. The vessel, dubbed the Akademik Lomonosov, is set to travel about …

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Hrant Dink

This culinary heaven is just a short flight from Tel Aviv

It’s late morning in Seytann Kahvesi (the Devil’s Coffeehouse) in the heart of the Old City of Ayvalik, a Turkish town from whose shore you can see the Greek island of Lesvos. On the veranda, in the shade of leafy foliage created by vines and other climbing p…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Yellow Vests

groupe de sept

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Virtual Reality

Digital Trends Live: Galaxy Note 10 and 10 Plus, Breaking Bad movie, and more

On this episode of Digital Trends Live, hosts Matt Katz and Adrien Warner discuss the biggest trending stories in tech, including the release of the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Note 10 Plus, the latest on the Breaking Bad movie, Harley-Davidsons new line of eb…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Trade War

U.S.-China Business Council urges talks to end damaging trade tensions

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The US-China Business Council on Friday said millions of U.S. citizens will be harmed by the increased trade tensions between the United States and China, the world’s largest economies, following the latest salvos in the U.S.-China trad…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Trade War

Factbox: Pending mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. firms that need Chinese approval

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he has ordered American companies to exit China after Beijing unveiled retaliatory tariffs on $75 billion worth of U.S. goods, in a new twist in the bitter trade war between the world’s two large…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Little Red Riding Hood

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Mandarin and Russian

As speech is central to human interaction, artificial intelligence research has long focused on speech recognition, the first step in designing and building systems allowing humans to interact intuitively with machines. The diversity in languages, accents and…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Julian Assange

The Latest Victim in the Persecution of Julian Assange

The case of Ola Bini, a Swedish data privacy activist and associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has been shrouded in mystery since his arrest in Quito, Ecuador, on April 11. He was detained on the same day Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuado…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

Feudalism

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Jay Connor Is Racist

Well, hello there! The big homie Michael Harriot is off doing Michael Harriot things, so hes tagged me in to helm this weeks edition of the Clapback Mailbag. Youre welcome in advance. As someone whos spent the past three or so years on the receiving end of…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

VR

Wolves in the Walls wins first Emmy Award for a virtual being

Fable, which transitioned from being a virtual reality studio to a “virtual beings” company, has won an Emmy Award for its Wolves in the Walls project. It’s a landmark day for “virtual beings,” or animated characters who are embued with artificial intelligen…

bubmagAugust 23, 2019

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

This culinary heaven is just a short flight from Tel Aviv

groupe de sept

Digital Trends Live: Galaxy Note 10 and 10 Plus, Breaking Bad movie, and more

U.S.-China Business Council urges talks to end damaging trade tensions

Factbox: Pending mergers and acquisitions involving U.S. firms that need Chinese approval

Amazon Transcribe Now Supports Mandarin and Russian

The Latest Victim in the Persecution of Julian Assange

The Root’s Clapback Mailbag: Jay Connor Is Racist

Wolves in the Walls wins first Emmy Award for a virtual being

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