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Super Komachi

Railways to build reservoirs in bullet train depots to harvest water for maintenance

New Delhi: In a first, railways is set to build reservoirs in its bullet train depots to store rainwater which would be used in the maintenance of the high-speed trains, the NHSRCL, implementing agency for the project, said on Tuesday. The move comes at a tim…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Machine Learning

The Battle Lines At E3 Are Cloudy For Mobile Operators

Share to facebookShare to twitterShare to linkedin The Electronic Entertainment Expo (also known as E3) yet again showcased the latest and greatest in gaming innovations. Thanks to new technologies like cloud gaming, the i…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

NATO

Afghanistan war: UN says more civilians killed by allies than insurgents

Media captionEarlier this year, the BBC was given exclusive access to Afghan ambulance workers Pro-government forces, including Nato allies, killed more civilians in Afghanistan in the first half of 2019 than insurgents did, UN figures show. It is the first…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Doping in Cycling

The Gilroy shooting is a reminder of the media’s swarm problem

On Sunday, in Gilroy, California, a city of around 58,000 people southeast of San Jose, a gunman cut through the fence of a local garlic festival and opened fire. The shooter killed Trevor Irby, who was 25 years old; Keyla Salazar, who was 13; and Stephen Rom…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

What Would It Mean for Humans to Become Data?

Lydia West in Years and Years. It May Take You a While to Get Your $125 From Equifax, and Other Wonky Details About the Settlement This Asteroid Could Have Wiped Out a City. Scientists Almost Missed It. Who Are Your Chrise…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Barack Obama

Michelle And Barack Obama Share Touching Birthday Tributes To Her Mom

Barack Obama joined his wife Michelle Obama in publicly wishing her mother Marian Robinson a happy birthday. The former president and first lady both used Instagram to pay sweet tribute to Robinson, who turns 82 on Tuesday. Michelle Obama shared this undate…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Monsanto

Germany’s Bayer reports rise in number of Roundup lawsuits

BERLIN (AP) Germany’s Bayer says the number of plaintiffs who have filed lawsuits against subsidiary Monsanto over its Roundup weed killer in the United States swelled by 5,000 in the second quarter to about 18,400. Bayer, which detailed the total number of …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Air Pollution

Health effects of China’s climate policy extend across Pacific

Improved air quality can be a major bonus of climate mitigation policies aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. By cutting air pollution levels in the country where emissions are produced, such policies can avoid significant numbers of premature deaths. …

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

How Jack Ma is changing Chinaâs lending landscape?

Alibaba founder Jack Ma is breathing fresh life into small businesses in China via his four-year-old online lending solution MYbank. As per a Bloomberg report, the platforms real-time payments data and a risk-management system analyses over 3,000 variables t…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

‘Moscow Mitch’ Is A Ridiculous Smear

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(Joshua Roberts/Reuters) The occasion for the assault on McConnell was a naked and cynical political setup.There was a time when the Left considered McCarthyism the worst of all political tactics. That was before it beca…

bubmagJuly 30, 2019

Railways to build reservoirs in bullet train depots to harvest water for maintenance

The Battle Lines At E3 Are Cloudy For Mobile Operators

Afghanistan war: UN says more civilians killed by allies than insurgents

The Gilroy shooting is a reminder of the media’s swarm problem

What Would It Mean for Humans to Become Data?

Michelle And Barack Obama Share Touching Birthday Tributes To Her Mom

Germany’s Bayer reports rise in number of Roundup lawsuits

Health effects of China’s climate policy extend across Pacific

‘Moscow Mitch’ Is A Ridiculous Smear

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