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Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality ‘Star Wars’ experience opens in New York shopping mall

A galaxy far, far away is actually now as close as the local shopping mall. A new virtual reality pop-up at New York's Westfield World Trade Center takes visitors inside the world of "Star Wars." It's produced by the company Void, which creates virtual reali…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Facebook Wins Some Relief From India Court on Message Encryption

(Bloomberg) -- Indias top court handed out a reprieve to Facebook Inc. in its battle to preserve the encryption feature of its Whatsapp messaging service which prevents it from sharing details of users or messages with the authorities. The court stopped shor…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Blockchain

Cryptocurrency fraudsters beg courts to return their luxury items, judge says no

Two cryptocurrency fraudsters in Canada are asking the courts to give their stuff back claiming the order to seize their assets had been granted improperly. The court isnt buying it, and has dismissed their appeal, local news reports. Lisa Angela Cheng and K…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Electric Scooter

Need for speed? Check out the 40 MPH Mantis electric scooter from fluidfreeride

Have you ever thought to yourself, “I like riding electric scooters, but I wish they could go 40 mph (64 km/h) and get a range of 55 miles (88 km) per charge”? Well then you’re in luck, because fluidfreeride has unveiled its newest model available in the US, …

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist alliance imperils American Jewry

The Zionist Organization of America was founded in 1897 to support the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. During the first world war it took a more explicitly statist direction, endorsed by the British governments Balfour Declaration of 1917; in…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Drones

Join Dezeen’s technology and architecture chat on Twitter with #dezeenchat

Join Dezeen's technology and architecture chat on Twitter with #dezeenchat

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Feudalism

Don’t blame Britain for Modi’s plan for a ‘new India’

History has a sarcastic sense of humour, just ask Francis Fukuyama. Or eminent historians and literary ornaments of India like Ramachandra Guha, Arundhati Roy, and Shashi Tharoor, who are now mourning the loss of a secular liberal India under a Hindu majorita…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

China's Strategy

A China Syndrome – One Year Later: The Memory Industry And The Emerging Balkanized Global Economy

"Lingering in the background is a more fundamental concern - namely that we may be witnessing the end of globalization. [] If so, the rapid increase in cross-border movement of goods, services, capital and people that has been the defining feature of the glob…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Google Mobile Network Insights ended over data privacy concerns

Google is known for introducing many new products and services only to shut them down after a few years. Many programs have survived but some were not so lucky. The next casualty is a service that showed the weak spots of a network. There is no formal announc…

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

SpaceX

How SpaceX Plans To Move Starship From Cocoa Site To Kennedy Space Center

The first time, it's a KLUDGE! The second, a trick. Later, it's a well-established technique! -- Mike Broido, Intermetrics

bubmagAugust 20, 2019

Virtual Reality ‘Star Wars’ experience opens in New York shopping mall

Facebook Wins Some Relief From India Court on Message Encryption

Cryptocurrency fraudsters beg courts to return their luxury items, judge says no

Need for speed? Check out the 40 MPH Mantis electric scooter from fluidfreeride

Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist alliance imperils American Jewry

Join Dezeen’s technology and architecture chat on Twitter with #dezeenchat

Don’t blame Britain for Modi’s plan for a ‘new India’

A China Syndrome – One Year Later: The Memory Industry And The Emerging Balkanized Global Economy

Google Mobile Network Insights ended over data privacy concerns

How SpaceX Plans To Move Starship From Cocoa Site To Kennedy Space Center

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