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Cold War

It’s time we returned to this Pizza Hut ad starring none other than Mikahil Gorbachev

The Cold War involved many periods of terrifying nuclear brinkmanship and proxy wars that raged throughout the world, taking unnecessary lives and destabilizing nations all over the globe with imperialist meddling. All of this could have been avoided if only …

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Bubble

Inside the World of Tom Ford…

OFFICIALLY, the rose garden belongs to Richard Buckley, Tom Fords husband. Its the product of the only sort of deal that Fordamong the shrewdest businessmen in the history of fashionwould ever make, one whose terms were highly favorable to himself: Buckley co…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Virtual Reality

HTC Vive and MLB Partner for the Home Run Derby VR Little League Challenge

HTC is not only known for its phones but also its stellar virtual reality (VR) headsets. Today, the company announced a collaboration with Major League Baseball, Little League International, and ESPN for a special broadcast of the 2019 Home Run Derby VR Littl…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Greta Thunberg

This 14-Year-Old Climate Activist Is Giving Up School to Save the World

Alexandria Villaseñor is standing in front of the U.S. Capitol and posting Instagram stories like any other teenager. Is there any good music that goes with climate action? the 14-year-old asks a group of activists. A couple of suggestions later, a song t…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Jerusalem Controversy

What Is Birthright and Why Is It So Controversial?

Like military recruitment and bake sales, the Birthright Israel table has become a staple on college campuses throughout the world, but particularly in America. Are you Jewish? the students behind the table may ask you as you walk by. The poster below them re…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Chinese Economy

Alibaba blows past earnings estimates as cloud business hits $4.5B run-rate

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. shrugged off the slowdown in the Chinese economy and the Washington-Beijing trade dispute in its fiscal first quarter, posting earnings that beat analyst expectations on all major counts. The Chinese e-commerce giant today reported…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

AR-15

Tim Mullaney: How Walmart and other companies could turn the gun debate

If the tragic slaughter at the Walmart store in El Paso on Aug. 3 led to anything good, we may have seen the first sign of it. On Thursday, the largest U.S. retailer came out for gun control. Oh, they did it cautiously, all right, in a carefully worded state…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Machine Learning

Zippin partners with Brazil’s largest retailer for cashier-less stores

Dive Brief: San Francisco-based Zippin has signed an 18-month deal with Brazil's largest retailer, Lojas Americanas S.A., to provide its checkout-free technology to stores throughout the country. The retailer will use the tech in Ame Go locations whe…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Filter Bubble

Comments on Rep. Gosar’s “Stop the Censorship Act,” Another “Conservative” Attack on Section 230

At this point, many “conservatives” favor government regulation of the editorial practices of Internet companies. As a result, proposals coming from DC “conservatives” that reference “censorship” in their titles almost certainly are designed to embrace, not p…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

The world’s leader in self-driving lidar technology is suing two Chinese companies over IP

Chinas vision of profiting from the driverless economy is being clouded by intellectual property debates, as two Chinese suppliers of a key self-driving technology are accused of stealing IP from a Silicon Valley company. Velodyne, the worlds largest produce…

bubmagAugust 15, 2019

It’s time we returned to this Pizza Hut ad starring none other than Mikahil Gorbachev

Inside the World of Tom Ford…

HTC Vive and MLB Partner for the Home Run Derby VR Little League Challenge

This 14-Year-Old Climate Activist Is Giving Up School to Save the World

What Is Birthright and Why Is It So Controversial?

Alibaba blows past earnings estimates as cloud business hits $4.5B run-rate

Tim Mullaney: How Walmart and other companies could turn the gun debate

Zippin partners with Brazil’s largest retailer for cashier-less stores

Comments on Rep. Gosar’s “Stop the Censorship Act,” Another “Conservative” Attack on Section 230

The world’s leader in self-driving lidar technology is suing two Chinese companies over IP

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