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Yandex Rides Non-Core Business Growth to a Mixed Quarter

Yandex N.V. (NASDAQ:YNDX) released second-quarter 2019 results on Friday morning, highlighting continued heady growth from its core search and portal business. It announced even more impressive gains from non-core segments such as its budding taxi, ridesharin…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Water Pollution

Nearly three in four Britons now want a bottle deposit and refund scheme to tackle plastic waste

An overwhelming majority of Britons back having a bottle deposit scheme to tackle plastic waste. A poll found 72 per cent of the population support the introduction of a deposit and refund scheme (DRS). The same proportion believe England and Wales should m…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Mexico Border Wall

Supreme Court Lets Trump Border Wall Move Forward, But Legal Fight Still Looms

A Border Patrol officer guards the U.S.-Mexico border fence in Nogales, Ariz., in February. The Supreme Court on Friday said the Trump administration could continue with its plan to use military funds to build a wall along sections of the southern border. Ar…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Biological Warfare

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Using Insects as a Biological Weapon

By Aaron Kesel In a real-life X-Files episode, United States House members are reportedly concerned in a bipartisan vote that the Pentagon may have unleashed biological weapons or entomological warfare in the form of ticks or other insects that caused the sp…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Donald Trump

Erin Burnett: This is a new chapter

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bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Biological Warfare

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Using Insects as a Biological Weapon

By Aaron Kesel In a real-life X-Files episode, United States House members are reportedly concerned in a bipartisan vote that the Pentagon may have unleashed biological weapons or entomological warfare in the form of ticks or other insects that caused the sp…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Biological Warfare

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Weaponizing Insects As Biological Weapon

By Aaron Kesel In a real-life X-Files episode, United States House members are reportedly concerned in a bipartisan vote that the Pentagon may have unleashed biological weapons or entomological warfare in the form of ticks or other insects that caused the sp…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Electric Scooter

Startup ScoopScoot Is Impounding Wayward E-Scooters In San Diego

In January, two San Diego businessmen launched a company, ScootScoop, that impounds e-scooters at the behest of private property owners. The company already has 4,500 of the e-scoooters packed in warehouses and garages. Most of the scofflaws pay their bounty,…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Virtual Reality

The Oculus Go, our favorite budget VR headset, is now on sale for even cheaper

Christian de Looper/Digital Trends Virtual reality hasnt quite taken the world by storm as many early adopters assumed it would, but the technology has grown quite a bit lately. One of the biggest barriers to entry is the high cost of VR headsets, but in rec…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Paris

Week in pictures: 20-26 July 2019

Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week. Image copyrightPhilippe Wojazer / ReutersImage caption Greta Thunberg (second from right) along with other Swedish and French environmental activists from the You…

bubmagJuly 27, 2019

Yandex Rides Non-Core Business Growth to a Mixed Quarter

Nearly three in four Britons now want a bottle deposit and refund scheme to tackle plastic waste

Supreme Court Lets Trump Border Wall Move Forward, But Legal Fight Still Looms

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Using Insects as a Biological Weapon

Erin Burnett: This is a new chapter

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Using Insects as a Biological Weapon

U.S. Congress Bipartisan Vote For Pentagon To Be Investigated For Weaponizing Insects As Biological Weapon

Startup ScoopScoot Is Impounding Wayward E-Scooters In San Diego

The Oculus Go, our favorite budget VR headset, is now on sale for even cheaper

Week in pictures: 20-26 July 2019

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