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Julian Assange

Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler

It was very laconic: JE, FYI, JBfollowed by my short bio and some media clippings. (You can check the entire PDF of the correspondence here.) Strangely, it was sent to me and had no other contacts in cc. Perhaps he wanted to send it to JE but put my email…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Machine Learning

Grappling With Risk-O-Meters For Self-Driving Cars

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin Humans assess risk while driving, driverless cars need to have AI do the same, but it is difficult to codify and yet lives depend upon doing so. Photocredit: Getty Getty …

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Russia Just Sent This Robot, Which Can Shoot Guns, Into Space

Theres Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, R2-D2 and C-3P0 from Star Wars, and of course the super-scary HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But space bots arent just science fiction anymore: Russia has sent a robot to space to learn how to help cosm…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Elon Musk

Mars Was Warm Enough To Sustain Life A Few Billion Years Ago, Claim Astronomers – Mashable India

About 3 to 4 billion years ago, the Martian environment was completely different from the cold inhabitable desert it is today. At that time, the Martian environment was much warmer with a habitable atmosphere that might have had rainstorms that could have sup…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Salvini keeps door open to possible new government with 5-Star

ROME (Reuters) - Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy’s hard-right League party, said on Thursday he would be willing to patch up his coalition with the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement if it adopts a more constructive attitude to the League’s policies. Salvin…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Android

Google’s Android brand gets a facelift; robot mascot keeps head, loses body in new logo

Google's upcoming Android Q release will actually be called Android 10 as the company ditches its naming scheme. (Photo: Google) Android's branding is about to look quite different. On Thursday, Google announced that it's changing the branding for Androi…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Geely

China Autonomous Vehicle Market Forecast to 2025: Vehicle Sales are Expected to Reach 1.5 Million Units – ResearchAndMarkets.com

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "China's Autonomous Vehicle Market, Forecast to 2025" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The aim of this study is to evaluate the autonomous driving market in China. The study identifies the key autonomou…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Global Warming

Possible Links Between Warming and Tornadoes Are Still Murky

Among natural disasters, tornadoes are notoriously difficult to predict. They require a complex set of conditions in order to form, some of which scientists still don't fully understand, and forecasting is rarely accurate more than a week or two in advance. …

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Holocaust

Historical memorials are not enough to stop anti-Semitism in Europe

TEREZIN IS AN old garrison town in todays Czech Republic that was used by the Nazis as a Jewish ghetto during the second world war. Some 33,000 Jews died in Theresienstadt, as it is known in German, and over twice that number were transported from there to de…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Politics this week

Giuseppe Conte, Italys prime minister, resigned after Matteo Salvini, the leader of the Northern League party, withdrew his support for the coalition government. The coalitions other party, the Five Star Movement, must now try to form a new government. If tha…

bubmagAugust 22, 2019

Jeffrey Epstein’s Intellectual Enabler

Grappling With Risk-O-Meters For Self-Driving Cars

Russia Just Sent This Robot, Which Can Shoot Guns, Into Space

Mars Was Warm Enough To Sustain Life A Few Billion Years Ago, Claim Astronomers – Mashable India

Italy’s Salvini keeps door open to possible new government with 5-Star

Google’s Android brand gets a facelift; robot mascot keeps head, loses body in new logo

China Autonomous Vehicle Market Forecast to 2025: Vehicle Sales are Expected to Reach 1.5 Million Units – ResearchAndMarkets.com

Possible Links Between Warming and Tornadoes Are Still Murky

Historical memorials are not enough to stop anti-Semitism in Europe

Politics this week

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