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Drones

UPS wants to bring drone deliveries to hospitals across the US – CNET

A UPS drone delivering lab tests at a hospital. UPS UPS is getting much more serious about drone deliveries -- though not quite yet to your home. The shipping company on Tuesday said it created a new subsidiary called UPS Flight Forward to build up its you…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

EU warns incoming British PM Johnson it won’t change Brexit terms

The European Union's elect for the bloc's top job has warned incoming British Prime Minister Boris Johnson of "challenging times ahead" over his plan to renegotiate Brexit. Ursula von der Leyen, the German conservative set to take over at the helm of the Eur…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Who Needs a Valet? Cars in This Garage Can Park Themselves

Parking is a frustrating aspect of owning a carfrustrating enough, in fact, that an entire taxi and ride-hail industry has cropped up to get you places on four wheels, while skipping the whole parking thing. Its also risky. Parking-related crashes happen at l…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Water Pollution

Over half of NY’s beaches ‘potentially unsafe’ due to fecal matter: report

New York beaches are among the crappiest in the country, according to a new study on fecal water pollution. Roughly 65 percent of the Empire State’s swimming spots are potentially unsafe due to pooh-particles with Tanner Park on South Oyster Bay, Woodlawn St…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Geely

China’s BAIC Purchases Five Percent of Daimler

Beijing Automotive Group Co Ltd (BAIC) announced on Tuesday that it had purchased a 5 percent stake in Daimler AG. Despite the pair have been partners in Asia since 2003, via the Beijing Benz Automotive joint venture, Zhejiang Geely Holding Group purchasedÂ n…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Blockchain

Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24 million cryptocurrency theft

Enlarge/ An AT&T store in New Jersey. 4 with 4 posters participating When Michael Terpin's smartphone suddenly stopped working in June 2017, he knew it wasn't a good sign. He called his cellular provider, AT&T, and learned that a hacker had gained c…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Doping in Cycling

Skiers given four-year bans in latest twist of Aderlass affair

Two Austrian cross-country skiers were hit with four-year bans on Tuesday in the latest installment of the Operation Aderlass investigation into organised blood doping. Dominik Baldauf and Max Hauke, who were found guilty by the Austrian Anti-Doping Agency …

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Korean War

Given Away: Korean Adoptees Share Their Stories

ByGlenn Morey and Julie Morey Mr. and Ms. Morey are filmmakers. Jul 23, 2019Fifty-nine years ago, Glenn was an orphan in Seoul, South Korea, abandoned as a newborn. He doesnt know by whom, where or why. But he wound up one baby, out of roughly two million i…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Skateboard

MDLR Launches Photography Bag Capsule With Ryan Allan

MDLR has teamed up with skateboarding and fashion photographer Ryan Allan for a new bag capsule for photographers. The collection consists of three different bagstote, messenger bag and smalleach rendered in sand and black with an orange interior. The tote b…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

Hiroshima

Asteroid’s near-miss is a huge wake-up call – Washington Examiner

Earlier this month, obscured in all the fighting over President Trump's tweets, Irans seizure of a British tanker, and the emergency on the border, most of America missed the news that we all got a reprieve from a 100-foot-wide space rock. The rock in quest…

bubmagJuly 23, 2019

UPS wants to bring drone deliveries to hospitals across the US – CNET

EU warns incoming British PM Johnson it won’t change Brexit terms

Who Needs a Valet? Cars in This Garage Can Park Themselves

Over half of NY’s beaches ‘potentially unsafe’ due to fecal matter: report

China’s BAIC Purchases Five Percent of Daimler

Judge allows suit against AT&T after $24 million cryptocurrency theft

Skiers given four-year bans in latest twist of Aderlass affair

Given Away: Korean Adoptees Share Their Stories

MDLR Launches Photography Bag Capsule With Ryan Allan

Asteroid’s near-miss is a huge wake-up call – Washington Examiner

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