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Recycling

Vertical landfills and DNA storage towers: 6 wild concepts for tomorrow’s skyscrapers

Skyscrapers are typically places for people to live and work. But what if they could also help save the world? That’s the idea behind the design journal eVolo’s annual skyscraper competition, which solicits concepts for the tall buildings of the future. For …

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Drones

Putting The Coanda Effect To Work On A Quadcopter

The Coanda effect is an aerodynamic principle regarding the way fluids tend to flow along curved surfaces. This can be used to direct a flow, and wanted to try out its application on a quadcopter. (Video embedded below.) The project began by fi…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Hiroshima

A Texas Brewery Is Under Fire for Naming a Beer After a Nuclear Test Site

In the book 15 Minutes: General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation, several residents of the Marshall Islands told author L. Douglas Keeney of the great terror they felt on the morning when Castle Bravo, a gigantic thermonuclear bomb, lit …

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

eSports

Ford Launches Its Own eSports Racing Teams at Gamescom 2019

American automobile manufacturer Ford announced at Gamescom 2019 that it will concurrently start recruitment for its inception eSports racing team named Fordzilla. Ford said in a statement that it will “be seeking out the best online racers to form its first…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Aramco to Select Lazard, Moelis for World’s Biggest IPO

(Bloomberg) -- Saudi Aramco has picked Lazard Ltd. and Moelis & Co. to advise on the oil giants second attempt at the worlds largest initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said. The boutique investment banks have started preparatory…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Machine Learning

Summer flash sale: Score 2-for-1 passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019

The dog days of summer are upon us, and even busy startuppers across Europe are enjoying a well-deserved vacation. Down times important and so is saving money, so all this week were holding a 2-for-1 summer flash sale on passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019. Disrup…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Monsanto

Germany’s Bayer sells Animal Health unit for $7.6 bn

Frankfurt am Main (AFP) - German chemical and pharmaceutical group Bayer said Tuesday it was selling its Animal Health business unit to US-based drug firm Elanco for $7.6 billion to create an industry giant. Bayer said in a statement that the sale, aimed at …

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Super Heroes

10 Heroes You Wouldn’t Think Are Smarter Than Bruce Wayne (But Actually Are)

Batman is generally considered the coolest superhero in fiction. Instead of a grab bag of superpowers granted through alien physiology, radioactive insects, or mysterious characters who insist on bequeathing you with magical artifacts of power or the secret t…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

China's Strategy

Op-Ed: Trump’s tariffs against China aren’t working. And there’s no quick resolution in sight

The Trump administrations move to postpone the imposition of new tariffs on Chinese consumer goods until December comes as stiff tariffs the U.S. has already levied against China on hundreds of billions of dollars of other commodities dont seem to be working.…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Venezuela

Twitter Suspends 200,000 Suspected China-Sponsored Accounts Targeting Hong Kong Protests

Protesters wave their mobile phones in the air during a pro-Democracy demonstration on June 5, 2019 in Hong Kong, China. The Terrorized Mississippi Towns That ICE Left Behind The Conservative Backlash Against the New York Times 1619 Pr…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Vertical landfills and DNA storage towers: 6 wild concepts for tomorrow’s skyscrapers

Putting The Coanda Effect To Work On A Quadcopter

A Texas Brewery Is Under Fire for Naming a Beer After a Nuclear Test Site

Ford Launches Its Own eSports Racing Teams at Gamescom 2019

Aramco to Select Lazard, Moelis for World’s Biggest IPO

Summer flash sale: Score 2-for-1 passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019

Germany’s Bayer sells Animal Health unit for $7.6 bn

10 Heroes You Wouldn’t Think Are Smarter Than Bruce Wayne (But Actually Are)

Op-Ed: Trump’s tariffs against China aren’t working. And there’s no quick resolution in sight

Twitter Suspends 200,000 Suspected China-Sponsored Accounts Targeting Hong Kong Protests

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