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China's Strategy

Newt Gingrich: To Beat China, America Needs to Learn Its Game | Opinion

China is inevitably seeking global dominance across multiple domains. This has become clear as China hosts more than 40 world leaders in Beijing this week for the second international forum on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)with Vladimir Putin as the guest…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Greta Thunberg

The science behind Extinction Rebellion’s three climate change demands

Activists blocked streets outside the Bank of England on 25 April Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images By Adam Vaughan Hundreds of climate change campaigners will leave the streets of London today, following 11 days of protests that brought parts of the …

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Android

Your kids (or you) can now hear bedtime stories through Google Assistant

Ahead of National Tell A Story Day (which is a thing, apparently), Google is rolling out a new feature to Google Assistant-powered smartphones: Tell Me A Story. Truth be told, this feature isn’t actually new, as it’s been available on Google Home devices sin…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Exoskeleton

Bath Middle School hosts STEM night to drive students to sciences, tech – Times Record

Seven-year-old Stellan Matzke and 11-year-old Keller Matzke try out augmented reality technology at Bath Iron Works’ exhibit on STEM night at Bath Middle School. (Nathan Strout / The Times Record) BATH Bath Middle School was steeped in science Wednesday in h…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Global Warming

Political economy suggests that geoengineering is likely to be used

AQUARTER-CENTURY has passed since the first global climate-change treaty, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. Humanitys record of following through on its climate promises is dismal. The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has risen b…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Lara Trump: Refugees ‘One of the Worst Things to Ever Happen to Germany’

Apparently, Adolf Hitler and Nazism are not the definitive worst thing to have happened to Germanyat least if you were to ask Lara Trump. Appearing Thursday morning on Fox Business Networks Varney and Co., the presidential daughter-in-law and Trump 2020 camp…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

NASDAQ

Microsoft market cap touches $1 trillion, pulls above Apple

(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp's market value vaulted above the $1 trillion mark for the first time in regular session trade on Thursday, pulling ahead of Apple Inc and making it the most valuable U.S. publicly traded company after quarterly earnings and revenue …

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

Politics this week

Jihadists in Sri Lanka suicide-bombed three churches and three hotels on Easter Sunday, killing more than 350 people. Islamic State claimed responsibility. The Sri Lankan authorities blamed a little-known local group, which they say may have had external help…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Solar Storm

‘Geomagnetic Jerks’ to Blame for Weakening Magnetic Field, Scientists WARN

A new study claims to have solved a mystery which has left scientists scratching their heads since 1978.Researchers from the Paris-based Institute de Physique du Globe and the Technical University of Denmark have carried out what may turn out to be groundbrea…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Alibaba

Foreign suspicion is hemming in China Inc’s global rise

TEENS EVERYWHERE love lip-synching to TikTok. Parents may be less enamoured of the boppy music-video app, whose popularity has exploded of late. For different reasons, governments appear wary, too. In February TikTok paid a record $5.7m fine in America for il…

bubmagApril 25, 2019

Newt Gingrich: To Beat China, America Needs to Learn Its Game | Opinion

The science behind Extinction Rebellion’s three climate change demands

Your kids (or you) can now hear bedtime stories through Google Assistant

Bath Middle School hosts STEM night to drive students to sciences, tech – Times Record

Political economy suggests that geoengineering is likely to be used

Lara Trump: Refugees ‘One of the Worst Things to Ever Happen to Germany’

Microsoft market cap touches $1 trillion, pulls above Apple

Politics this week

‘Geomagnetic Jerks’ to Blame for Weakening Magnetic Field, Scientists WARN

Foreign suspicion is hemming in China Inc’s global rise

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