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Fortnite

The first-ever Fortnite World Cup Finals attracted comparable attention and dollars to traditional sports events

This past weekend Epic Games hosted the first-ever Fortnite World Cup Finals in NYC, which I attended, and will write up in greater detail later this week. Business Insider Intelligence Fortnite has taken the world by storm, garnering 250 million players wo…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

VR

Enter a world of imagination in Concrete Genie, arriving in October

Concrete Genie is an upcoming game from one of Sony's smaller studios, Pixelopus.The game is set to arrive on the PlayStation 4 on October 8, 2019.There's a Digital Deluxe edition with some extra goodies for fans.You can soo…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Holiday Inn owner ditching mini shampoos to cut plastic pollution

The fight to save the seas from plastic waste may mean the end for mini bottles of shampoo and other toiletries that hotel guests love to stuff into their luggage. The owner of Holiday Inn and InterContinental Hotels said Tuesday that its nearly 843,000 gues…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Julian Assange

Judge orders man’s mouth taped shut in court, then orders video of it destroyed

A man so vexed District Court Judge Marilyn Castle in Lafayette that she ordered his mouth taped shut. The Advocate reports that Michael C. Duhon, already found guilty of theft, repeatedly interrupted his sentencing hearing. Katie Gagliano reports how Castle …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Little Italy

Gravity’s Rainbow: Hot on the Heels of Key Showcases, Painter Pat Steir Preps Major Washington, D.C. Exhibition

Installation view of “Pat Steir Silent Waterfalls: The Barnes Series,” 2019, at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. THE BARNES FOUNDATION/J. RAMSDALE Pat Steir began making her remarkable, lush abstract paintings more than 30 years ago. To execute two seri…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Monsanto

Companies people love to hate: World’s most despised corporations

Facebook One of the big five tech companies, Facebook has been buried by numerous scandals, from hacking to misappropriating user data and spreading hate speech. The company has agreed to pay a record-breaking $5 billion fine over privacy violations after al…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Seesaws Built Across The U.S.-Mexico Border To Let Children Play Together

Two California professors unveiled three pink seesaws that rest on the U.S.-Mexico border wall a playful and fun way to bring “joy, excitement and togetherness” to families on both sides of the border. Ronald Rael, an architecture professor at the University…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Venezuela

‘The Source of Evil Is the Same’ in These 3 Captive Nations

As Captive Nations Week came to a close earlier this month, three nations in Latin America were still far from escaping the death grip of communist regimes. What were talking about here is not just politics and policy, said Marion Smith, executive director o…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Whitney Cummings Made A Sex Robot Of Herself

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Hrant Dink

Find a school census code

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bubmagJuly 30, 2019

The first-ever Fortnite World Cup Finals attracted comparable attention and dollars to traditional sports events

Enter a world of imagination in Concrete Genie, arriving in October

Holiday Inn owner ditching mini shampoos to cut plastic pollution

Judge orders man’s mouth taped shut in court, then orders video of it destroyed

Gravity’s Rainbow: Hot on the Heels of Key Showcases, Painter Pat Steir Preps Major Washington, D.C. Exhibition

Companies people love to hate: World’s most despised corporations

Seesaws Built Across The U.S.-Mexico Border To Let Children Play Together

‘The Source of Evil Is the Same’ in These 3 Captive Nations

Whitney Cummings Made A Sex Robot Of Herself

Find a school census code

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