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Panda

Veggie-eating giant panda’s nutrient intake looks a lot like a carnivore’s

Panda's may live on an almost exclusively plant-based diet, but according to new research, their nutrient intake looks more like a carnivores -- a finding that may help shed light on longstanding questions regarding the panda's dietary evolution. In a study …

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Google

Google manually reviewed a million suspected terrorist videos on YouTube

Google shared these numbers with a US House panel today. The company also said it has more than 10,000 people working on content review, and it spends hundreds of millions of dollars on those efforts annually. Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have bee…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Refugees

Eleanor Davis Comics! Cartoonist Kayfabe Show and Tell

Ed Piskor and Jim Rugg continue to dissect the turbulent comic book speculator boom on the 1990s while looking through antique copies of Wizard Magazine. What to expect in this issue: * Malibu’s Ultraverse is announced! * Chris Claremont’s life after X-Men. A…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Yemen Civil War

Countries of particular cruelty

WASHINGTONThe U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) released its annual report this week and called on Congress and the Trump administration to increase sanctions against countries with rampant religious persecution, especially China. A…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

eSports

Activision Blizzard has five franchises lined up for its new Call of Duty esports league

Activision Blizzard said it has lined up five franchises for a new, city-based Call of Duty esports league. Atlanta, Dallas, New York, Paris and Toronto will all play host to franchise teams that will compete in a professional league based on what is perhaps…

bubmagMay 3, 2019

Silk Road

Pentagon warns on risk of Chinese submarines in Arctic

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Deepening Chinese activities in the Arctic region could also pave the way for a strengthened military presence, including the deployment of submarines to act as deterrents against nuclear attack, the Pentagon said in a report released o…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Geely

Lynk & Co’s CEO Alain Visser on Reimagining Mobility and Ownership

Alain Visser seems, at first, like more of a fashion CEO than the head of one of the newer and more interesting automobile brands. His relaxed and open-minded attitude, a sneaky grin and Cole Haans tied with brightly colored shoelaces all set him apart from t…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Hungarian Prime Minister seeks immigration cooperation with Italy’s Salvini

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who leads the far-right League party in his home country, met Hungary's leader Viktor Orban on Thursday for talks dominated by immigration and political alliances ahead of EU elections later this month. The two p…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Venezuela

Venezuela crisis: Maduro appears with soldiers following violent protests

Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro has attempted to present a unified front with the army as pressure increases on him to resign. Following two days of political unrest and violent protests, Mr Maduro visited an army base in Caracas, where he appeared surro…

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Global Warming

The House Just Passed Its First Climate Change Bill in a Decade, and That’s Not Even the Sad Part

If it were up to the House Democrats, the U.S. would still be a part of the Paris Climate Agreement. In fact, they all voted Thursday to pass a bill that aims to reinstate our role in this international accord. So did three Republicans, reports E&E News. …

bubmagMay 2, 2019

Veggie-eating giant panda’s nutrient intake looks a lot like a carnivore’s

Google manually reviewed a million suspected terrorist videos on YouTube

Eleanor Davis Comics! Cartoonist Kayfabe Show and Tell

Countries of particular cruelty

Activision Blizzard has five franchises lined up for its new Call of Duty esports league

Pentagon warns on risk of Chinese submarines in Arctic

Lynk & Co’s CEO Alain Visser on Reimagining Mobility and Ownership

Hungarian Prime Minister seeks immigration cooperation with Italy’s Salvini

Venezuela crisis: Maduro appears with soldiers following violent protests

The House Just Passed Its First Climate Change Bill in a Decade, and That’s Not Even the Sad Part

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