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Drones

Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019

Alphabet X Labs graduate Wing announced late last year that it’d soon begin piloting autonomous deliveries in Helsinki, Finland, and in a blog post this morning, it laid out a detailed roadmap. Wing says that in the coming weeks, it’ll deploy a small fleet of…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Iran Liberalism

As tensions rise between U.S. and Iran, each side is waiting for the other to blink

U.S. President Donald Trump gave the Iranians his phone number and told them to call if they want to talk. The Iranians replied that they have no intention of calling, because there’s nobody to talk to. They don’t trust either America or the Europeans. >&…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Food Industry

Amazon Takes A Bite Of U.K. Food Delivery Service Deliveroo With Multi-Million Dollar Investment

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Amazon buys chunk of Deliveroo Getty Online retail giant Amazon has taken a bite out of U.K.-based global food delivery service Deliveroo, by making a multi-million dollar investment in the co…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Panda

Giant pandas on loan to the US returns to China amid trade war between Washington and Beijing

Two giant pandas that had been on loan to the United States have returned home to China. Bai Yun, a 27-year-old female giant panda, and her son, six-year-old Xiao Liwu, arrived in their ancestral homeland of Sichuan province in south-west China yesterday af…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Xi Jinping

Trump’s Huawei ban escalates the US-China trade war into a tech Cold War

By giving Huawei Technologies the "death penalty," the Trump administration has escalated tensions between the US and China to a level of hostility akin to a tech Cold War On Tuesday the Trump administration put the Huawei on the Commerce Department's "Ent…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Palestine

Football Star Ronaldo Donates $1.5mn to Gazans on Opening of Ramadan

Portuguese soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo has donated $1.5 million to feed the fasting people in the besieged Gaza Strip, Palestine, against the backdrop of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Juventus star striker has never hid the fact that he is pro-Pale…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Monthly Web Development Update 5/2019: Over-Complication And Performative Workaholism

This week, I was at the amazing beyondtellerrand conference once again, and every single time I come home from such an event, I try to understand our industry and our society better. Theres so much input and inspiration around, I meet a lot of friends and peo…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Alibaba

Jack Ma explains how entrepreneurs should deal with rejection

When it comes to building a business from scratch, every entrepreneur is bound to face some form of rejection along the way. And if they want to keep pushing forward, they're going to have to get accustomed to receiving these negative responses, says the fou…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Electric Scooter

Upgrade: There’s one major U.S. city where making $100,000 may not even cover basic bills

A fat paycheck doesnt always mean you can pay the bills. This week, personal finance site GoBankingRates released an interesting analysis of how far a $100,000 pre-tax salary would go towards covering basic costs rent, groceries, utilities, driving costs and…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Black Hole

The Scientists Behind the First Black Hole Photo Get Nod from Congress

Congress can sometimes feel as distant and impenetrable as a black hole — which was the topic of a House Science Committee hearing held yesterday (May 16). Four scientists affiliated with the Event Horizon Telescope project, which released the first-ever ima…

bubmagMay 17, 2019

Alphabet’s Wing will kick off Helsinki drone deliveries in summer 2019

As tensions rise between U.S. and Iran, each side is waiting for the other to blink

Amazon Takes A Bite Of U.K. Food Delivery Service Deliveroo With Multi-Million Dollar Investment

Giant pandas on loan to the US returns to China amid trade war between Washington and Beijing

Trump’s Huawei ban escalates the US-China trade war into a tech Cold War

Football Star Ronaldo Donates $1.5mn to Gazans on Opening of Ramadan

Monthly Web Development Update 5/2019: Over-Complication And Performative Workaholism

Jack Ma explains how entrepreneurs should deal with rejection

Upgrade: There’s one major U.S. city where making $100,000 may not even cover basic bills

The Scientists Behind the First Black Hole Photo Get Nod from Congress

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