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Monsanto

Judge reduces $2B award in Monsanto Roundup case to $87M

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A judge has cut a jury award in a lawsuit that found that Monsanto's Roundup herbicide caused cancer in a California couple from $2.055 billion to $87 million, the third time a judge has reduced an award in a lawsuit over the disputed che…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Apple contractors working on Siri ‘regularly’ hear recordings of sex, drug deals, and private medical information, a new report says

All of the major voice assistants - including Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, and Google's Assistant — are not as private as you might think. As we wrote back in April, in order to train and improve virtual assistants like Alexa, the companies behind those s…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Filter Bubble

Evidence, please

Too many momentous decis…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Yellow Vests

Congress Considers Carbon Tax Plans That Will Hurt Poor

Congress is once again trying to impose a carbon tax on the American people, with multiple bills coming from both Democrats and Republicans. It must be understood that a carbon tax would be one of the most regressive taxes the United States has ever …

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

SpaceX

Daily Crunch: Yep, Apple is buying Intel’s modem business

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Apple acquiring most of Intels smartphone modem business in $1B …

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

WASHINGTON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Asia next week with an agenda dominated by a stalemate in North Korea nuclear talks and impasses with China over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea. Pompeo travels to Thailand for a security forum, where …

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Slavery Abolition

In The Black Clown, a Langston Hughes poem gets a modern revival

I’d call it a remarkable legacy for a poet to have, whose work, over time, time and again, has allowed playwrights and musicians to plumb it for more. Admittedly I’ve read only a little of Langston Hughes’ poetry. He is the kind of writer whose language is so…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

WASHINGTON Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Asia next week with an agenda dominated by a stalemate in North Korea nuclear talks and impasses with China over trade, Taiwan and the South China Sea. Pompeo travels to Thailand for a security forum, where …

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Google

Samsung Will Pay You the Full Price of a Google Pixel 3 If You Trade It In

Samsung is offering generous trade-in offers on the latest Samsung Galaxy, Google Pixel, and iPhone smartphones, plus deals on plenty of older handsets. That includes paying you the full price of a regular Google Pixel 3$600, as of publication time. The catc…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

North Korea Nuclear Talks

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

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bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Judge reduces $2B award in Monsanto Roundup case to $87M

Apple contractors working on Siri ‘regularly’ hear recordings of sex, drug deals, and private medical information, a new report says

Evidence, please

Congress Considers Carbon Tax Plans That Will Hurt Poor

Daily Crunch: Yep, Apple is buying Intel’s modem business

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

In The Black Clown, a Langston Hughes poem gets a modern revival

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

Samsung Will Pay You the Full Price of a Google Pixel 3 If You Trade It In

North Korea, China top Pompeo agenda on Asia trip

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