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Feudalism

National culture distant dream due to Islamisation of Malay literature, says author

National culture is difficult to achieve due to a trend towards Islamising aspects of Malay literature, says Faisal Tehrani. (Facebook pic) LANGKAWI: The religionisation of Malay literature over the decades has become a stumbling block to realising the natio…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Super Komachi

How to fly from the UK to California for £241 return

Every so often, Jack Sheldon from Jacks Flight Club selects a flight deal from the UK for Independent readers that you cant afford to miss. This week: return flights to California for £241 return. This week, there are some good fares on British Airways from …

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Big Data

Peter Thiel just cranked up his attack on Google’s ‘naïve’ relationship with China in a blistering New York Times op-ed

Billionaire Silicon Valley investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doubled down on his attack on Google conducting AI research in China on Thursday. Thiel first started banging the drum against Google in a speech at the National Conservatism conference l…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Cold War

The US just withdrew from an important nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Don’t panic — yet.

Demonstrators with a Putin and Trump mask face each other with rocket models in Berlin on February 1, 2019. They are protesting with their action against the imminent end of the INF disarmament agreement between Russia and the United States. | Paul Zinken/Pic…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Holocaust

What US slavery reparations and post-Holocaust Germany have in common

The idea of paying reparations for slavery is gaining momentum in the United States, despite being long derided as an unrealistic plan, to compensate for state violence committed by and against people long dead. The topic saw substantive debate in the July 3…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Gundam

Cybersecurity test on ISS @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

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 2, 2019

Machine Learning

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.

Zhou Yi was terrible at math. He risked never getting into college. Then a company called Squirrel AI came to his middle school in Hangzhou, China, promising personalized tutoring. He had tried tutoring services before, but this one was different: instead of …

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Bubble

All of the Food Will Be Delivered

This is a blessed age for food in America—for dining out and cooking in; for recipe books, and TV shows, and recipe books that become TV shows ; for the celebrity chefs who occupy seats in the cultural pantheon once reserved for artists; and above all, for th…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

Bubble

Quentin Tarantino’s Ultimate Statement on Movie Violence

This article contains major spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. For his ninth and supposedly penultimate film, Quentin Tarantino gave up violence. In a way. To a point. The ever-polarizing writer-director is famed for his stylish and shocking scenes o…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

NATO

NATO says ready with ‘measured’ response to Russia missile breach

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO has agreed ways to deter Russia from launching a new, land-based, medium-range missile, the alliance said on Friday, saying it would respond “in a measured and responsible way”. The United States formally withdrew from a landmark n…

bubmagAugust 2, 2019

National culture distant dream due to Islamisation of Malay literature, says author

How to fly from the UK to California for £241 return

Peter Thiel just cranked up his attack on Google’s ‘naïve’ relationship with China in a blistering New York Times op-ed

The US just withdrew from an important nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Don’t panic — yet.

What US slavery reparations and post-Holocaust Germany have in common

Cybersecurity test on ISS @Raspberry_Pi #PiDay #RaspberryPi

China has started a grand experiment in AI education. It could reshape how the world learns.

All of the Food Will Be Delivered

Quentin Tarantino’s Ultimate Statement on Movie Violence

NATO says ready with ‘measured’ response to Russia missile breach

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