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Protectionism

Quotation of the Day…

Tweet … is from chapter 3 of William Graham Sumners 1885 book, Protectionism: the -ism Which Teaches that Waste Makes Wealth: The cities of Japan are built of very combustible material, and when a fire begins it is rarely arrested until the city is destroye…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Machine Learning

Google Is Eating Our Mail

I've been running a small SMTP and IMAP mail server for many years, hosting a handful of individual mailboxes. It's hard to say when exactly I started. whois says I registered the tablix.org domain in 2005 and I remember hosting a mailing list for my colleagu…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Android

Google expands the Assistant’s storytelling feature to mobile phones

Ahead of National Tell a Story Day on Saturday, Google announced yesterday that the Google Assistant can now tell bedtime stories on your Android or iOS device. Since 2017, Google Home devices have been able to tell bedtime stories when requested by owners t…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Biological Warfare

Swine Fever DEVASTATING China’s Pork Industry – over one-third of pigs now DEAD

One third of all the pigs in China are either dead from African Swine Fever or have been executed by farmers in fear of the deadly virus spreading among other close-quarter pigs. Meanwhile, prices for pig meat in China have skyrocketed 70 percent already,…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Android

AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals

Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organisations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cogn…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Barack Obama

Joe Biden, N.F.L. Draft, ‘Avengers: Endgame’: Your Friday Briefing

With more than 13,000 comments, beginning in 2008, Mr. Eisenberg became a cult figure. A former editorial page director called him the closest thing this paper has to a poet in residence. Mr. Eisenberg was a biomedical electrical engineer by day who wrote sc…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Refugees

The refugee families caught up in a war zone in Libya

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Filter Bubble

Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?

Sajid Javid, UK Home Secretary. Credit: Foreign Office via Flickr/CC BY 2.0. A school playground in England, 1997. I am 12 years old. I am walking towards the entrance where my mother is waiting to drive me home. I am giddy with excitement during the journey…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Panda

Parrot Is Detained For Warning Owners About A Drug Raid

Most police are familiar with how to handle guard dogs – but what about a guard parrot. Brazilian police were faced with this question during a drug raid in Vila Irmã Dulce, a low-income community in the capital of Piauí state, when their cover was almost blo…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

North Korea accused of demanding payment for release of coma-stricken student

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russian President Vladimir Putin say there needs to be more trust if Korean peace talks are to progress. But in the United States, coverage of the two leaders' summit in Vladivostok has been overshadowed by a Washington Po…

bubmagApril 26, 2019

Quotation of the Day…

Google Is Eating Our Mail

Google expands the Assistant’s storytelling feature to mobile phones

Swine Fever DEVASTATING China’s Pork Industry – over one-third of pigs now DEAD

AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals

Joe Biden, N.F.L. Draft, ‘Avengers: Endgame’: Your Friday Briefing

The refugee families caught up in a war zone in Libya

Does the UK Think It Can Police the Internet?

Parrot Is Detained For Warning Owners About A Drug Raid

North Korea accused of demanding payment for release of coma-stricken student

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