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Panda

Owners of ‘largest puppy farm in Scotland’ who burnt dog corpses in van convicted of animal cruelty

Canine breeders who owned the largest puppy farm in Scotland and are thought to have burnt the corpses of dead dogs have been convicted of animal cruelty offences. Frank James, 53, and Michelle Wood, 29, kept over 100 animals in disgraceful conditions at far…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Privacy Concerns

FTC finalizing fine for Google illegally tracking children

Recap: The FTC is upping the ante with their fines for privacy breaches. Their latest target is Google's YouTube, after an investigation revealed that the company was illegally tracking how minors were using their platform. Hot off the heels of the $5 billi…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Star Wars

Don’t be fooled by the internet: this week in tech, 20 years ago

Photo by KMazur/WireImage This year marks a lot of big film anniversaries, and this week, everyone is celebrating The Blair Witch Project. Vice collected a full oral history of how the years-long experimental film project became one of the biggest horror mov…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

AR-15

Is This the Ultimate AR-15 Rifle of All Time?

A deeper search reveals that around the same year, M400s were bought by a wide variety of state actors worldwide. While only FN and Colt supply AR-style rifles to the U.S. military, plenty of American gun manufacturers supply arms to other militaries worldw…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

New York City

Now You Can Use Google Maps to Find Bike Shares in 24 Cities

If you travel to any major city, and even some of the smaller ones, youll probably run into some sort of bike-sharing opportunity. Last year Google Maps introduced a feature that allowed users to locate bike-sharing stations in New York, and see how many bik…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Donald Trump

Trump retweets controversial British columnist

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bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Water Pollution

The Case Against the Apollo 11 Moon Mission

On July 13, 1969, just a few days before Apollo XI lifted off into the sky, newspapers across the country ran a syndicated column by Drew Pearson, an infamous figure in mid-century American journalism. Perhaps most famously, he broke the story about General G…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Animal Protection

Kittens and cats scrapping for attention at crowded Quebec City animal shelter

The Quebec City Animal Protection Society (SPA) is nearing its capacity to take in kittens and cats as the two heaviest intake periods spring litters and moving day coincided this year. The shelter's administration suspects the reproduction cycle of cats in …

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Christianity

Tolkien, Christianity, and the State

The conservative intellectual movement is having an existential crisis, of sorts. Its one that has long been simmering but only recently thrust into the light after First Things published New York Post opinion editor Sohrab Ahmaris attack on the failings of w…

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

VR

The VR Revolution Is Alive and Well, It’s Just Not Ready For Your Living Room (Yet)

When HTC and Oculus launched their first-gen virtual reality headsets back in the spring of 2016, it felt like the beginning of a revolution. These headsets were immersive and sophisticated, unlike anything the public had seen before, and a leap forward from …

bubmagJuly 20, 2019

Owners of ‘largest puppy farm in Scotland’ who burnt dog corpses in van convicted of animal cruelty

FTC finalizing fine for Google illegally tracking children

Don’t be fooled by the internet: this week in tech, 20 years ago

Is This the Ultimate AR-15 Rifle of All Time?

Now You Can Use Google Maps to Find Bike Shares in 24 Cities

Trump retweets controversial British columnist

The Case Against the Apollo 11 Moon Mission

Kittens and cats scrapping for attention at crowded Quebec City animal shelter

Tolkien, Christianity, and the State

The VR Revolution Is Alive and Well, It’s Just Not Ready For Your Living Room (Yet)

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