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OAP plunged to death off care home roof by wandering through disused fire door

A pensioner fell to her death from the roof of her care home after she wandered through a disused fire door which had a faulty alarm, an inquest heard. Jean Herring went missing after she got into a lift to go to her fifth floor room - and was found…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

China's Strategy

India needs a solar manufacturing strategy

India has made significant progress in creating capacity for solar energy generation in the last few years. The Prime Ministers emphasis since 2014 has given a new fillip to solar power installation. The unit costs of solar power have fallen, and solar energy…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Google

Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs

Google Cloud made two significant pricing announcements today. Those, you’ll surely be sad to hear, don’t involve the usual price drops for compute and storage. Instead, Googe Cloud today announced that it is extending its committed use discounts, which give …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Holocaust

YouTube finally banned content from neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and Sandy Hook skeptics

Plenty of dodgy content is still allowed. YouTube is finally banning content that promotes white supremacist views on its video platform. But it will still permit videos it classifies as “borderline,” which isn’t clearly defined, as well as a host of other pr…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Climate Change

Beto O’Rourke and Climate Change

Presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has released his grand plan to fight climate change. Most people think it is silly. The progressives who’ve signed on to the “Green New Deal” complain O’Rourke’s plan doesn’t go far enough. Almost everyone else looks at it…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Astroturfing

Taiwan’s Democracy Is Utterly Confounded by Populist Mayor Han Kuo-yu

Han Kuo-yu is refusing to disappear. The polarizing mayor of Kaohsiung, Taiwans largest southern city, sauntered north to Taipei last weekend to greet reportedly hundreds of thousands of rabid supporters rallying in the heavy rain. Never mind that Han has not…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Super Komachi

A Guide to Visiting Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

Traveling to Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park in Japan to view the famous Japanese snow monkeys was a delightful experience. We previously wrote about our visit but have since received several reader questions asking about travel logistics. So, we put together a …

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Libyan coast guard says it rescued 80 Europe-bound migrants

BENGHAZI, Libya (AP) Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted a boat carrying 80 Europe-bound migrants, including women and children, off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Spokesman Ayoub Gassim said Wednesday that the rubber vessel had 80 African migran…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

Exoskeleton

What is The Role of AI in Future Cars?

As soon as we hear about the AI in concern to automotive industries, the instant idea that comes in our mind is self-driven cars. But apart from these self-driven cars, AI is doing a lot more for the automotive industries. According to Ignite Stat, the value…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

eSports

Why VCs are investing in game companies again

Institutional venture capital funds are investing in games again, just like seed investors who deal with smaller game startup investments. We talked about this trend involving larger funds on a panel at GamesBeat Summit 2019 that included Gregory Milken, man…

bubmagJune 5, 2019

OAP plunged to death off care home roof by wandering through disused fire door

India needs a solar manufacturing strategy

Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs

YouTube finally banned content from neo-Nazis, Holocaust deniers, and Sandy Hook skeptics

Beto O’Rourke and Climate Change

Taiwan’s Democracy Is Utterly Confounded by Populist Mayor Han Kuo-yu

A Guide to Visiting Jigokudani Snow Monkey Park

Libyan coast guard says it rescued 80 Europe-bound migrants

What is The Role of AI in Future Cars?

Why VCs are investing in game companies again

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