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Electric Car

Volkswagen ID.R Nurburgring lap record deep dive: VW releases the data

Volkswagenhandily beat the original electric car record at the Nürburgring a couple months back, but now the Germans have released some numbers to further break down the lap. The ID.R completed the circuit in just 6:05.336 you can watch the video above. On t…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

New York City

AT&T adds New York City to 5G list, promises expanded coverage

AT&T’s millimeter wave-focused 5G network has continued to be somewhat mysterious since it launched in late December 2018, but the top U.S. carrier has continued to add cities — and apparently customers — since then. Today, AT&T is adding New York Cit…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Biological Warfare

How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History

Skip to comments. How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History Smithsonian ^ | August 5, 2019 | Emily Toomey Posted on 08/06/2019 6:48:56 AM PDT by C19fan Fifty-two billion people—almost half of the cumulative human population—are thought t…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey readies for action as U.S. talks on Syria safe zone struggle

ANKARA (Reuters) - Deep differences between Turkey and the United States over the scope and command of a planned “safe zone” in northeast Syria raise the prospect of Turkish military action unless the two countries break months of deadlock in talks this week.…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Barack Obama

Toni Morrison, Trailblazing Author Of ‘Beloved,’ Dead At 88

The trailblazing author Toni Morrison, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Pulitzer Prize, died Monday night at the age of 88, her publisher, Knopf, confirmed in a tweet Tuesday. Morrison was best known for her 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Holocaust

Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts

The ADL surveyed 1,045 US adult gamers (oversampling Jewish, Muslim, African American and Hispanic/Latinx individuals) and asked them about their experiences in multiplayer games: on the one hand, they found that playing these social games brought many benefi…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

NSA

CoreLogic: House Prices up 3.4% Year-over-year in June

Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for June. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for May. The CoreLogic HPI is a three month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). From CoreLogic: U.S. Home Price Insights Through June 201…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Chinese Economy

The Real Cost of Trump’s Trade Wars

Economic analysis suggests that bilateral trade wars are unwinnable in an interconnected world. By firing his latest tariff salvo against China, US President Donald Trump has further raised the stakes in an increasingly damaging dispute and America is likely …

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

While Trump condemns white nationalism, his campaign Facebook ads lean on talk of migrant invasion

President Donald Trump said our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy following two mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso. USA TODAY Story Highlights Trump has been using anti-immigrant sentiment as he campaigns for 2020A…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Android

Save Up To 68 Percent On This Lineup of Apple Products, Laptops, TVs, & More

We all love great tech, but breaking the bank in order to land the latest and greatest laptops and TVs isnt much fun. So here are some heavily-discounted tech deals that wont force you to take out a second mortgage. 1. Apple 27′ iMac Computer with Apple Wire…

bubmagAugust 6, 2019

Volkswagen ID.R Nurburgring lap record deep dive: VW releases the data

AT&T adds New York City to 5G list, promises expanded coverage

How Mosquitoes Helped Shape the Course of Human History

Turkey readies for action as U.S. talks on Syria safe zone struggle

Toni Morrison, Trailblazing Author Of ‘Beloved,’ Dead At 88

Survey finds high levels of harassment in multiplayer games, as well as white supremacist recruiting attempts

CoreLogic: House Prices up 3.4% Year-over-year in June

The Real Cost of Trump’s Trade Wars

While Trump condemns white nationalism, his campaign Facebook ads lean on talk of migrant invasion

Save Up To 68 Percent On This Lineup of Apple Products, Laptops, TVs, & More

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