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Alibaba

Alibaba doubles quarterly net profit thanks to e-commerce and cloud

1 min read Image credit: Alibaba Group E-commerce giant Alibaba posted a robust rise in revenue for the first fiscal quarter ended in June as net profit more than doubled, driven by the healthy expansion of its core e-commerce business and growing cloud serv…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

VR

Fire Breathing N64 Puts Blast Processing In The Shade

Consoles over the years have innovated, bringing new features and experiences with each subsequent generation. Rumble, motion controls and more recently VR have all come to the fore as companies vie for supremacy in the marketplace. Nobody’s really had the gu…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Hrant Dink

Singling Out Israel

Consider the E.U.'s lack of response to Chinese appropriation of Tibet, to Iranian subjugation and ethnic genocide in Syria, and to the Turkish invasion and more than 40 years of occupation in northern Cyprus. Given E.U. inaction in these instances, it is gl…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Boeing 737max

SpiceJet climbs over 2% after HSBC upgrades, raises target on higher FY20 profit forecast

Shares of SpiceJet gained 2.6 percent intraday on August 16 after global brokerage house HSBC upgraded its rating on the stock to hold from reduce. The research firm also raised its price target to Rs 130 from Rs 120 per share, as it increased profit forecas…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Xi Jinping

French ‘spiderman’ climbs HK tower, hoists reconciliation flag amid mass protests

HONG KONG (Reuters) - French “spiderman” climber Alain Robert scaled a 68-storey skyscraper in Hong Kong on Friday to hoist a flag symbolizing reconciliation between China and the territory as weeks of escalating pro-democracy protests show no signs of abatin…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Scotland

Peterloo bicentenary: Manchester massacre remembered as historians draw parallels with politics today

The first death came at 1.15pm and was an infant, aged just two years old. Exactly 200 years ago on Friday, little William Fildes was being carried through a Manchester street by his mother Ann when, from around a corner, a troop of horse-back yeomanry appea…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Exoskeleton

Blood pressure in midlife may be related to dementia risk – The Asian Age

Studies reveal abnormal blood pressure in mid and late life can increase dementia risk.Washington: Once confined to comic books, exosuits that enhance a wearer's physical abilities took a step forward Thursday as researchers unveiled a pair of robotic shorts …

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Barack Obama

Barack Obama reveals his summer reading list, includes Toni Morrison – CNET

Barack Obama includes the work of the late, great author Toni Morrison on his summer reading list for 2019. Barack Obama Even though most of us will never become the president of the United States, we can still read like one. On Wednesday, former US Preside…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Super Komachi

A Mother-Daughter Getaway to the Mountains of Nagano

Kita Shiga Kogen is a little less than two hours from Tokyo on the Hokuriku Shinkansen (bullet train) via Iiyama station, making it an easy destination to access if you’ve got kids in tow. My daughter excited to be on the bullet train! I just had one with …

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Slavery Abolition

G.K. Chesterton and Old Dixie

Before there was any New England in the North, there was something very like Old England in the South. Relatively speaking, there is still G. K. Chesterton Within Christian and conservative circles, the great English writer Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-193…

bubmagAugust 16, 2019

Alibaba doubles quarterly net profit thanks to e-commerce and cloud

Fire Breathing N64 Puts Blast Processing In The Shade

Singling Out Israel

SpiceJet climbs over 2% after HSBC upgrades, raises target on higher FY20 profit forecast

French ‘spiderman’ climbs HK tower, hoists reconciliation flag amid mass protests

Peterloo bicentenary: Manchester massacre remembered as historians draw parallels with politics today

Blood pressure in midlife may be related to dementia risk – The Asian Age

Barack Obama reveals his summer reading list, includes Toni Morrison – CNET

A Mother-Daughter Getaway to the Mountains of Nagano

G.K. Chesterton and Old Dixie

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