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Belt and Road

Pakistan’s Army to Deploy Division to Protect Economic Corridor With China

The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is set to become a crucial leg of the broader Belt and Road Initiative, Beijing's mega-project aiming to enhance "all-around connectivity through infrastructure construction".Pakistan's army plans to deploy an addit…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Chinese Economy

A Gucci Bubble Gets Pricked by the Trade War

BEIJING, China Throughout the seemingly endless US/China trade war, shoppers from Shanghai to Beijing have been serenely snapping up luxury goods, from Gucci logo T-shirts to Balenciaga sneakers and Cartier nail bracelets. That could be about to change. The …

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Machine Learning

Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering

Martin Zinkevich This document is intended to help those with a basic knowledge of machine learning get the benefit of Google's best practices in machine learning. It presents a style for machine learning, similar to the Google C++ Style Guide and other p…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Chinese Economy

Huawei’s woes continues as Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom cut off supplies

When the US imposed a trade ban on ZTE last year, it almost caused the Chinese company to go bankrupt. While Huawei may last longer than its compatriot, it might not take long before the company is also brought to its knees. Google has already been reported t…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Water Pollution

States aren’t waiting for Trump administration on environmental protections

WASHINGTON More than a dozen states are moving to strengthen environmental protections to fight a range of problems from climate change to water pollution, opening a widening rift between stringent state policies and the Trump administration's deregulatory ag…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Elon Musk

NASA’s new flying robot gets its first hardware check in space

NASA's new robot is getting ready for work. Astrobee, a free-flying robot system that's designed to give astronauts a hand in space, has had its first hardware checks on the International Space Station. The system is actually a trio of robots, named Honey, …

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Neymar

Neymar, Brazil boss to discuss indiscipline issues

Brazil coach Tite has said he will speak to Neymar about his behaviour after he was suspended for three games in both Ligue 1 and the Champions League. Tite, preparing his side for the summer's Copa America on home soil, said he would speak to his national c…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Skateboard

Cool Tech: DJI Osmo Action, Levono Foldable Portable PC and more

Continuing the so-long Perfect Office series now turning into Cool Tech Series. A roundup of cool gadgets and tech for your office; not necessarily for designers explicitly but for all of you tech-savvy crowd like myself out there. This is an extensive concep…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Putin

Last laugh: Ukraine comedian who became president

Kiev (AFP) - Comedian Volodymyr Zelensky has already been inaugurated as president of Ukraine -- as a character in the popular TV show "Servant of the People". Now the 41-year-old performer will take the role for real, following a long-shot campaign that sen…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Bees

Inmarsat, ApisProtect partner to help stem global bee population decline – iTWire

Global satellite communications company Inmarsat is partnering with Irish agritech company ApisProtect to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor the health of honey bees.The collaboration aims to develop a globally scalable IoT solution for con…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Pakistan’s Army to Deploy Division to Protect Economic Corridor With China

A Gucci Bubble Gets Pricked by the Trade War

Rules of Machine Learning: Best Practices for ML Engineering

Huawei’s woes continues as Qualcomm, Intel, Broadcom cut off supplies

States aren’t waiting for Trump administration on environmental protections

NASA’s new flying robot gets its first hardware check in space

Neymar, Brazil boss to discuss indiscipline issues

Cool Tech: DJI Osmo Action, Levono Foldable Portable PC and more

Last laugh: Ukraine comedian who became president

Inmarsat, ApisProtect partner to help stem global bee population decline – iTWire

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