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Geely

Polestar sets up R&D centre in Coventry to develop more EVs

Polestar has confirmed it has established a new research and development centre in Coventry, West Midlands. The new facility, expected to be linked to parent company Geelysdesign studio close to the city, will allow the Volvo-linked performance brand to inc…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Machine Learning

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him a…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Machine Learning

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

While in graduate school in mathematics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I took a logic course from David Griffeath. The class was fun. Griffeath brought a playfulness and openness to problems. Much to my delight, about a decade later, I ran into him a…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Facebook’s ‘fake news’ problem won’t be solved by banning right-wing, anti-Semitic trolls

If Facebook wants to show us theyre opposed to hate speech, banning individual trolls is about as effective as a Band-Aid on a sucking chest wound painful, messy, and worse than useless. In 2016, when I was managing editor at fact-checking site Snopes.com, w…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Belt and Road

Patrick Wack’s photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China’s new frontier

Nearly three times the size of France, and taking up around one sixth of Chinas total area, Xinjiang is a vast expanse of harsh desert, broken up sporadically by small cities, towns and industrial settlements. Once the first leg of the Silk Road, an ancient t…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

NSA

This man’s job was to hack the Pentagon. Now he invests millions in security startups.

Ron Gula's career sounds like something out of a James Bond film. His early years were spent as a hacker for the National Security Agency, where he spent time "penetration testing" the US Department of Defense, simulating attacks from countries like China …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Obamacare

Sitting in Limbo — Obamacare under Divided Government

From the Department of Social Medicine, School of Medicine, and the Department of Health Policy and Management, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Singapore

The Trouble With Carbon Taxes: Lessons For Asian Policymakers

By, Tilak Doshi Energy I analyze energy economics and related public policy issues. A yellow vest protester waves a French national flag on International Workers’ Day in the Montparnasse district of Paris, France, on Wednesday, May 1, 2019. French Presiden…

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Scotland

Reading the Tea Leaves on Ukania’s Local Quasi-Referendum on Brexit

Last week elections were held for town, city, and county councils in England (London apart) and the north of Ireland. No local elections took place in Scotland and Wales. More than 8,400 seats in 248 councils, part of a 4-year election cycle, were contested …

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Video: Music video released promoting the Chinese social credit system

0:47 Google introduces the Nest Hub Max for video, photos, and calls

bubmagMay 8, 2019

Polestar sets up R&D centre in Coventry to develop more EVs

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

Want to hire the best team? Don’t hire the “best” people

Facebook’s ‘fake news’ problem won’t be solved by banning right-wing, anti-Semitic trolls

Patrick Wack’s photos of Xinjiang show beauty and despair on China’s new frontier

This man’s job was to hack the Pentagon. Now he invests millions in security startups.

Sitting in Limbo — Obamacare under Divided Government

The Trouble With Carbon Taxes: Lessons For Asian Policymakers

Reading the Tea Leaves on Ukania’s Local Quasi-Referendum on Brexit

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