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Economic Bubble

The Federal Reserve Is Gambling With The Global Economy

The economy is being gambled with. The Federal Reserve is likely going to cut interest rates this week, and the global economy is at stake. Despite unemployment being at historic lows and the stock market being at historic highs, a highly unusual action is …

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Alibaba

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

San Francisco and Lagos based fintech startup Flutterwave has partnered with Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba to offer digital payments between Alipay and African merchants. Flutterwave is a Nigerian founded B2B payments service (primarily) for companies i…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Big Data

Automated trading has already upended markets. Now AI could shake up stock picking and investment advice.

Programmatic strategies that are designed to buy or sell stocks like humans, based on specific criteria, are here to stay. Their pervasiveness is often noticed when markets are under pressure, or when a headline triggers a flash crash that's so violent it'…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Water Pollution

Indian fertilizer industry tops in energy usage, water pollution: CSE report

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Brexit

Scotland’s Sturgeon thinks UK PM Johnson is pursuing a no-deal Brexit

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Monday she believed Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pursuing a no-deal Brexit. Speaking to reporters after a meeting with Johnson in Edinburgh, Sturgeon said there was no clarity on how …

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Big Data

Microsoft acquires data access management provider BlueTalon

Microsoft announced today the acquisition of BlueTalon, a leading provider of Unified Data Access Control for big data and new data initiatives. The company which has its headquarters in Redwood City, California, is now part of Microsofts Azure Data Governanc…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Doping in Cycling

The frustrating persistence of Lance Armstrong

Screenshot of Armstrong during his 2019 Tour de France commentary for NBCIn 2013, during a televised interview with Oprah Winfrey, Lance Armstrong, the cyclist, admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs throughout his career and lying about it. The admis…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

Palestine

Palestine +100 Imagines Many Possible Futures

Screw Roland Barthes: if ever the identity of the author mattered to how a piece of literature is understood, it matters to Palestine +100. The nationality of the authors in this collection is relevant for several reasons. First, because this book is (accord…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

CCTV

The Hidden Challenges in Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Cities in California and Massachusetts have banned police use of facial recognition technology over privacy and accuracy concerns. But rolling out the video surveillance technology also could be hampered by another factor lack of money or staff to make it wor…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

eSports

Here’s your first look at League of Legends’ Pantheon rework – PCGamesN

League of Legends developer Riot Games has just lifted the lid on its next champion rework. In line with hints dropped earlier this year, Pantheon is the next champion to undergo a full visual gameplay update. In a trailer shared earlier today, Riot took fan…

bubmagJuly 29, 2019

The Federal Reserve Is Gambling With The Global Economy

Flutterwave and Alipay partner on payments between Africa and China

Automated trading has already upended markets. Now AI could shake up stock picking and investment advice.

Indian fertilizer industry tops in energy usage, water pollution: CSE report

Scotland’s Sturgeon thinks UK PM Johnson is pursuing a no-deal Brexit

Microsoft acquires data access management provider BlueTalon

The frustrating persistence of Lance Armstrong

Palestine +100 Imagines Many Possible Futures

The Hidden Challenges in Police Use of Facial Recognition Technology

Here’s your first look at League of Legends’ Pantheon rework – PCGamesN

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