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Hrant Dink

How the doner kebab became more than a European fast-food staple

Has the doner kebab become a political issue in Europe? While the idea might seem humorous, this is a serious question. Alongside the hamburger, the doner kebab is one of Frances most popular fast-food dishes. It has also attracted unexpected attention and co…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Julian Assange

Julian Assange shows symptoms of psychological torture, according to United Nations experts

Julian Assange shows symptoms of psychological torture, according to United Nations experts. Nils Melzer, a rapporteur on torture for the U.N. requested an appeal to the United Kingdom on Friday, recommending Assange should not be extradited to the U.S. beca…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Google

NYC’s contactless subway turnstiles open today with Apple, Google, Samsung and Fitbit Pay support

After weeks of sporting Coming Soon screens, the New York City MTAs OMNY pilot finally launched today. The system augments the citys MetroCard swipes with new contactless screens that work with contactless prepaid credit and debit cards and a variety of diffe…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Food Industry

Don Draper is (Finally) Dead

by Francesco Pagano David Bruel Marketing, as we learned it, is dead. We were Kings. I graduated from college in 2001. If you wanted to learn Marketing at that time, you had two options: join a consultancy firm or work in FMCG, ideally in the food industry…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Machine Learning

Huawei CTO discusses emergence of AI and facial recognition in China

Coin Rivet had the chance to speak with Huawei CTO Jorge Sebastiao at last weeks Malta AI and Blockchain Summit, where he revealed the extent of how artificial intelligence will impact society. During our talk, blockchain and cybersecurity expert Sebastiao c…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

VR

The DeanBeat: The building blocks of better AR/VR at Augmented World Expo

Most of the tech at the Augmented World Expo 2019 event wasn’t about games. But it was still intriguing for me to see the technologies that are coming together that will lead to the next-generation augmented reality, virtual reality, and mixed reality technol…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Monsanto

Los Angeles County Files Suit Against Bayer’s Monsanto over PCBs

Los Angeles County sued Monsanto Co. on Thursday, seeking to force the unit of Germany’s Bayer AG to help pay for reducing PCB contamination in dozens of bodies of water. The most populous U.S. county, which has about 10.1 million people, said the presence o…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Food Industry

‘Hotbox’ Is the ‘Kitchen Confidential’ of the Big-Ticket Catering World

HOTBOX Inside Catering, the Food Worlds Riskiest BusinessBy Matt Lee and Ted Lee James Beard, Martha Stewart, Ina Garten, Giada De Laurentiis, Carla Hall: Where were they before they became masters of the food universe? They were catering. If this is news to…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

AR-15

Tech giant Salesforce brings software to a gun fight – The Mercury News

By Jay Greene | The Washington Post SAN FRANCISCO On its website, Salesforce.com touts retailer Camping World as a leading customer of its business software, highlighting its use of products to help sales staff move product. A Camping World executive is even…

bubmagMay 31, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Trump’s tariff threat is his latest attempt to get Mexico to build a wall

US president Donald Trumps latest gambit to stem the rising number of asylum-seekers coming to the United States from Central America is to target the country in between: Mexico. Trump tweeted last night that the United States plans to tax goods coming from …

bubmagMay 31, 2019

How the doner kebab became more than a European fast-food staple

Julian Assange shows symptoms of psychological torture, according to United Nations experts

NYC’s contactless subway turnstiles open today with Apple, Google, Samsung and Fitbit Pay support

Don Draper is (Finally) Dead

Huawei CTO discusses emergence of AI and facial recognition in China

The DeanBeat: The building blocks of better AR/VR at Augmented World Expo

Los Angeles County Files Suit Against Bayer’s Monsanto over PCBs

‘Hotbox’ Is the ‘Kitchen Confidential’ of the Big-Ticket Catering World

Tech giant Salesforce brings software to a gun fight – The Mercury News

Trump’s tariff threat is his latest attempt to get Mexico to build a wall

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