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Riots

‘Trump has to stop’: The president’s racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric has encouraged mass shootings, including El Paso, according to hate and extremism expert

Two shooters opened fire in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio on Saturday and Sunday, killing 29 so far in less than 24 hours. The FBI is investigating an anti-immigrant manifesto believed to have been written by the El Paso shooter, 21-year-old Patrick Crusiu…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Christianity

TX Lt. Gov. Blames El Paso Shooting on Not Letting Kids “Pray in Our Schools”

Whenever there’s a mass shooting, you can count on Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to say the worst thing imaginable. Last May, after an incident, he blamed abortion and video games and unarmed teachers and too many entrances in schools and a lack of forced Christ…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Korean War

Russian MiG-15 Pilot: How I Shot Down a B-29 Bomber during Korean War

Dario Leone Security, The escorting pilots appeared to be cowards. If we forced them into a pair or a group of four aircraft, they flew apart, right and left and left us a clear path to the B-29 bombers. Good, I thought. These guys are working for us, Lt C…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

eSports

Respawn Developer Seemingly Teases New Apex Legends Character

Respawn Entertainment producer Tina Sanchez appears to be teasing a new character for Apex Legends, according to Dot Esports. Sanchez posted two images to Twitter on August 1, showing her wearing a motion capture suit as well as holding a cane. Working on A…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Paris

Inventor Flies Across the English Channel on His Jet-Powered Hoverboard

French inventor Franky Zapata has successfully crossed the Channel on a jet-powered hoverboard for the first time, after a failed attempt last month. Zapata took off from Sangatte, northern France early on Sunday morning and landed in St. Margarets Bay, near …

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Elon Musk

Tesla offers ‘free unlimited’ supercharging to Model S and X buyers

If you've been thinking about buying a new Tesla, now might be a good time to make a move. Tesla is offering prospective buyers some extra incentive: free supercharging when you buy a new Model X or Model S. New purchases of the two cars will come with"free …

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX Makes Plans For Up To 24 Starship Launches A Year From Florida

SpaceX plans to build facilities at the Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A for launches and, eventually, landings of its next-generation launch vehicle, according to a newly released report. An environment assessment prepared by SpaceX, and released b…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Israeli army in no rush to go fully robotic

ELYAKIM ARMY BASE, Israel (Reuters) - Israel, a world leader in hi-tech, is around 30 years away from its ambition of deploying robot forces, and for now will chose between three prototypes of semi-automated armored vehicles to cocoon its troops in battle, de…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

Recycling

Researchers want to build a space station to recycle junk in Earth’s orbit

There are about 22,000 large objects orbiting the Earth, including working and broken satellites and bits of old rocket from past space expeditions. If you include all the equipment dropped by astronauts while floating in space and the debris from colliding s…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

eSports

Why Razer is betting big on sponsored esports teams

This week saw Razer anticipate its sponsored squads to win more titles at various esports events, notably British-born Benjamin 'Problem X' Simon. There's also a rather large FIFA tournament going on. It has been quite the weekend for live esports events. Br…

bubmagAugust 4, 2019

‘Trump has to stop’: The president’s racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric has encouraged mass shootings, including El Paso, according to hate and extremism expert

TX Lt. Gov. Blames El Paso Shooting on Not Letting Kids “Pray in Our Schools”

Russian MiG-15 Pilot: How I Shot Down a B-29 Bomber during Korean War

Respawn Developer Seemingly Teases New Apex Legends Character

Inventor Flies Across the English Channel on His Jet-Powered Hoverboard

Tesla offers ‘free unlimited’ supercharging to Model S and X buyers

SpaceX Makes Plans For Up To 24 Starship Launches A Year From Florida

Israeli army in no rush to go fully robotic

Researchers want to build a space station to recycle junk in Earth’s orbit

Why Razer is betting big on sponsored esports teams

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