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Gundam

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) Solve Nagging Issues

Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode program…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Big Data

Noida-based startup Lal10 is optimising how handloom clusters streamline global orders

As this goes to print, a team in Noida is coordinating with a person from the weaving community in Maheshwar, to manage an order for handwoven hemp fabric, which they received from a boutique in Los Angeles. In a nutshell, this encapsulates what Lal10, a fou…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Electric Scooter

Fame II to boost electric scooter adoption

The second phase of FAME scheme from the Government offers subsidies for battery operated scooters in India. Further 7% drop in GST will also help in faster adoption of electric two-wheelers. Electric two-wheelers with 50% localization, a minimum range of 80…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Feudalism

Book Review: …and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year by Michael Hudson

In and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year, Michael Hudson offers a historical account of the role that debt played in ancient societies. In focusing on how such societies dealt with the pr…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Donald Trump suggests linking gun control legislation to immigration laws

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke about the mass shootings at the Walmart in El Paso, Texas and in Dayton, Ohio. Wochit WASHINGTON After two mass shootings over the weekend, President Donald Trump suggested Monday that Congress link immigration laws to ne…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Brexit agreement is ‘the best deal possible’, EU Commission says

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The deal reached on Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union is the “best possible” and is not up for negotiation but the European Commission is ready to talk with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a spokeswoman for the bloc’s exe…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Cold War

UPDATE 1-Russia says it would respond to U.S. missile deployments in Asia

(Adds quote, background) MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would take measures to defend itself if the United States stationed missiles in Asia following the collapse of a landmark arms control treaty and that it expected Japan to deploy a n…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Chinese Economy

China’s yuan drops through seven-per-dollar level

Image copyrightReuters China has let its yuan currency fall in value below the seven-per-dollar level for the first time since 2008, raising fears of a currency war. Beijing had been expected to stop the yuan hitting the psychologically important level, but…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

AR-15

AR-556 Rifle: A Strange Mix of an AR-15 and a Normal Gun

The AR-556 has all of the benefits of any other AR-15 style weapon, including semi-automatic operation, the same method of operation, and the same procedures for clearing a jammed weapon. Rugers AR-556 pistol, a short-barreled AR-15 designed for one or two-…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Protectionism

China’s yuan fell, and the American stock market is tumbling right along with it

The trade wars aren’t working out very well this morning.U.S. markets are stumbling in early-morning trading Monday after China let its yuan weaken to its lowest level against the dollar since the 2008 financial crisis. China’s central bank, which sets parame…

bubmagAugust 5, 2019

Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) Solve Nagging Issues

Noida-based startup Lal10 is optimising how handloom clusters streamline global orders

Fame II to boost electric scooter adoption

Book Review: …and forgive them their debts: Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption From Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year by Michael Hudson

Donald Trump suggests linking gun control legislation to immigration laws

Brexit agreement is ‘the best deal possible’, EU Commission says

UPDATE 1-Russia says it would respond to U.S. missile deployments in Asia

China’s yuan drops through seven-per-dollar level

AR-556 Rifle: A Strange Mix of an AR-15 and a Normal Gun

China’s yuan fell, and the American stock market is tumbling right along with it

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