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Venezuela

Norway Downplays Maduro’s Skipping of Talks With Opposition

CARACAS, VENEZUELA - The chief facilitator of negotiations between Venezuela's socialist administration and opposition has downplayed the decision by President Nicolas Maduro to skip a scheduled round of talks. Dag Nylander of Norway's Foreign Affairs Minist…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Salvini says government is finished, wants elections

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Thursday there was no way to patch up differences in Italy’s ruling coalition and the only way forward was to hold new elections. Salvini, leader of the right-wing League party, said in a…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

BMW chopping block: 3 Series and 6 Series Gran Turismo dead, Gran Coupe too – Roadshow

Say goodbye to these niche models. BMW Perhaps the BMW 3 Series and 6 Series Gran Turismo models took niches just a smidge too far. For anyone still yearning for one of the quirky sedan/coupe/hatchback mashups, time is running short. BMW noted in its full-…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Machine Learning

Humanizing Machine Learning

We were all excited about these potential benefits, but I wanted to make sure our users would find it useful too. So I did some digging and compiled a list of users who regularly used HubSpots existing A/B page testing feature, since I figured theyd be most i…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Biological Warfare

The atomic cloud over Nagasaki, 1945

My father was wounded in action at Iwo Jima in Cushman's Pocket, where he took a Japanese rifle bullet through the chest as a 2nd Lt in command of 1st Platoon, E Co, 2nd Battalion of the 9th Marines Regiment. After recovering from his wounds, was given comman…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Hrant Dink

Turkey: Constitutional Court Rules Refusal to Allow Election of a New Patriarch a Violation of the Right to Freedom of Religion

(Aug. 8, 2019) On May 5, 2019, the Constitutional Court of Turkey issued its decision in Levon Berç KuzukoÄlu ve Ohannes Garbis Balmumciyan, holding that the governments failure to enable the election of a new Armenian patriarch in a manner conforming with T…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Iran Liberalism

MFA takes visitors to ‘delectable’ fantasy worlds with two new exhibitions

Make Believe, in the adjoining gallery, invites reality into the picture. The contemporary photography exhibition plays with viewers frequent and increasingly wrong-headed tendency to assume photographs represent the real world. In this show, elaborately stag…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Automating synthesis from planning to execution

A new system uses artificial intelligence and robotics to carry out almost all the steps of chemical synthesis, from planning to execution, with just a little bit of human help (Science 2019, DOI: 10.1126/science.aax1566). Timothy F. Jamison, Klavs F. Jensen,…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Blockchain

5 Companies Revolutionizing the Crypto Space with New Innovations

Over the past few years, blockchain and cryptocurrency companies have featured on prominent lists of top fintech companies in the world. While using the word ‘disruptive’ to describe the activities of the crypto space might be cliché, that is precisely what i…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Air Pollution

Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers’ profits and cut pollution

A new economic study in the journal Science shows that thousands of farmers in northern India could increase their profits if they stop burning their rice straw and adopt no-till practices to grow wheat. Alternative farming practices could also cut farmers' g…

bubmagAugust 8, 2019

Norway Downplays Maduro’s Skipping of Talks With Opposition

Italy’s Salvini says government is finished, wants elections

BMW chopping block: 3 Series and 6 Series Gran Turismo dead, Gran Coupe too – Roadshow

Humanizing Machine Learning

The atomic cloud over Nagasaki, 1945

Turkey: Constitutional Court Rules Refusal to Allow Election of a New Patriarch a Violation of the Right to Freedom of Religion

MFA takes visitors to ‘delectable’ fantasy worlds with two new exhibitions

Automating synthesis from planning to execution

5 Companies Revolutionizing the Crypto Space with New Innovations

Alternatives to burning can increase Indian farmers’ profits and cut pollution

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