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Yemen Civil War

The Daily 202: Will Hurd’s retirement from the House, at 41, is a bow to the Republican realignment under Trump

Rep. Will Hurd (R-Tex.), who announced his retirement last night, visits the U.S. border with Mexico in Tornillo, Tex. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post) With Mariana Alfaro THE BIG IDEA: The lone black Republican in the House announced Thursday night that h…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Trade War

Earnings and Trade Worries Sink Under Armour and Apparel Makers

August 2, 2019 4 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The Entrepreneur Index™ is feeling the heat. Monetary policy and trade relations have been the dominant factors moving stock prices for months, and they combined las…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Christianity

Conservative Christians Are Trashing “Christians Against Christian Nationalism”

I mentioned yesterday that a number of prominent liberal Christians had created a loose network called “Christians Against Christian Nationalism,” denouncing the right-wing idea that to be truly American meant being a (specific kind of) Christian. The movemen…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Commentary: Why a Thibaut Pinot victory would have been great for the Tour de France

Egan Bernal won the Tour de France, but for a few stages, it appeared that Thibaut Pinot was poised for victory. Shane Stokes examines what such an outcome would have meant for pro cycling, and argues that both the race and the sport would have been boosted b…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Geely

Volvo Cars, China in first blockchain project for recycled cobalt

LONDON: Volvo Cars, owned by China's Geely , has produced the first cars containing recycled cobalt mapped using a blockchain, and has joined a separate project to monitor cobalt from Democratic Republic of Congo, Volvo said. Carmakers are under pressure fro…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Bees

Spectator competition winners: the Last Bumble Bee

For the latest competition you were invited to submit a short story entitled ‘The Last Bumble Bee’. The buff-tailed bumblebee, Bombus terrestris, was once voted Britain’s favourite insect, and this challenge seemed to strike a chord, inspiring stories that r…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Scotland

A couple of billion on no-deal Brexit? What an egregious waste of money

We have all become used to politicians' utterances being less than 100 per cent truthful, however it is hard to reconcile the government's plans to spend £2.1bn on what they have described as the vanishingly small possibility of a no deal scenario. Their late…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Android

Can We Offend Androids and Artificial Intelligence Machines?

In the 1982 film Blade Runner, private eye Rick Deckard uses the Voight-Kampf apparatus to determine whether an individual is a synthetic human replicant or not. The device monitors eye reactions while Deckard asks questions to gauge the subjects attitude and…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Android

Can We Offend Androids and Artificial Intelligence Machines?

In the 1982 film Blade Runner, private eye Rick Deckard uses the Voight-Kampf apparatus to determine whether an individual is a synthetic human replicant or not. The device monitors eye reactions while Deckard asks questions to gauge the subjects attitude and…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Super Heroes

6 X-MEN Villains Who Should Join the MCU First

The X-Menare headed to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We don’t know how, we don’t know when, but we know they’re coming. Of course, that doesn’t mean we have to wait until the first MCU X-Men movie for mutants to show up. A great entry point for Professor Xa…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

The Daily 202: Will Hurd’s retirement from the House, at 41, is a bow to the Republican realignment under Trump

Earnings and Trade Worries Sink Under Armour and Apparel Makers

Conservative Christians Are Trashing “Christians Against Christian Nationalism”

Commentary: Why a Thibaut Pinot victory would have been great for the Tour de France

Volvo Cars, China in first blockchain project for recycled cobalt

Spectator competition winners: the Last Bumble Bee

A couple of billion on no-deal Brexit? What an egregious waste of money

Can We Offend Androids and Artificial Intelligence Machines?

Can We Offend Androids and Artificial Intelligence Machines?

6 X-MEN Villains Who Should Join the MCU First

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