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Fortnite season 9: Birthday Bash and Overtime Challenges – CNET

Unwrap this gift to get a Legendary item. Epic Games Fortnite turns 2 years old on July 25, and Epic Games is hosting a party for the players in the form of Birthday Challenges. The Birthday Bash will last until July 31 and, luckily, the tasks are simple en…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

GM’s Cruise is delaying its robotaxi — and it points to problems for AV industry (GM)

GM's autonomous vehicle (AV) unit Cruise has delayed the launch of a robotaxi service after initially aiming to deploy one at a large scale sometime this year. The company now says that it will launch at an unspecified future date and will do so in San Franci…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Electric Car

Entitled Tesla Jackass Parks on Stranger’s Lawn, Steals Electricity for 12 Hours

Theres sort of a stereotype of Tesla owners having this elevated sense of self-worth and entitlement since they believe that the fact that they drive a fast, luxurious electric car means theyre saving the world for the rest of us drooling simpletons. Of cours…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Holocaust

The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Volunteered to Enter Auschwitz and Try to Tell the World About It

In the darkest years of the Second World War, Witold Pilecki, a Polish cavalry officer turned resistance fighter, undertook the most audacious of missions: to get himself arrested by the Germans and sent to the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz. On Septemb…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Air Pollution

Can folate offset air pollution’s harm during pregnancy?

Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of air pollutants had children with lower IQs, compared to the children of women exposed to lower levels, a new study reports. Researchers looked at 1,005 pregnant women participating in the Conditions Affecting Neurod…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Sweden Resists Trump’s Pressure to Free American Rap Artist

WHITE HOUSE - An extraordinary diplomatic dispute between the United States and Sweden has escalated with President Donald Trump alleging unfair treatment for a jailed American rap musician. Sweden is rejecting demands from Trump that it free Rakim Mayers, k…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Machine Learning

‘Cloud killin’ it’: Wall Street is raving about Alphabet’s monster quarter. Here’s what top analysts are saying. (GOOGL)

'Cloud killin' it': Wall Street is raving about Alphabet's monster quarter. Here's what top analysts are saying. (GOOGL)

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Paris

Chaos at Tour de France as race is suddenly stopped because of landslide

There was chaos at the Tour de France on Friday as organizers suddenly stopped stage 19 because of extreme weather, which appeared to include a flash hail storm, snow blocking the roads, and a landslide all just ahead of the riders. The Colombian rider Ega…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Doping in Cycling

The UCI’s Tour de France Bike-Motor Tests Are a Joke

The 2019 Tour de France has been, so far, one of the most exciting Tours in years and also blessedly low on scandal. Few major crashes have ruined the chances of top competitors (aside from yesterday’s disqualification of Luke Rowe and Tony Martin), no riders…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Chinese Economy

Project Syndicate: What the U.S. misses about China: Beijing takes the long view

The Chinese Communist Partys creation myth is Maos Long March, a strategic retreat that led to ultimate victory 15 years later. NEW HAVEN, Conn. (Project Syndicate) A couple of months ago, while touring Jiangxi Province, Chinese President Xi Jinping made re…

bubmagJuly 26, 2019

Fortnite season 9: Birthday Bash and Overtime Challenges – CNET

GM’s Cruise is delaying its robotaxi — and it points to problems for AV industry (GM)

Entitled Tesla Jackass Parks on Stranger’s Lawn, Steals Electricity for 12 Hours

The Remarkable Story of the Man Who Volunteered to Enter Auschwitz and Try to Tell the World About It

Can folate offset air pollution’s harm during pregnancy?

Sweden Resists Trump’s Pressure to Free American Rap Artist

‘Cloud killin’ it’: Wall Street is raving about Alphabet’s monster quarter. Here’s what top analysts are saying. (GOOGL)

Chaos at Tour de France as race is suddenly stopped because of landslide

The UCI’s Tour de France Bike-Motor Tests Are a Joke

Project Syndicate: What the U.S. misses about China: Beijing takes the long view

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