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Hiroshima

A Biography Worthy of ‘Hiroshima’ Author John Hersey

Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima Jeremy Treglown Farrar, Straus and Giroux Apr 2019 Other There are, it could be said, two elements that distinguish the master journalist. First, the material they write must speak to…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Orangutan

Palm oil plantations

DescriptionThe Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission takes us over palm oil plantations in East Kalimantan - the Indonesian part of the island Borneo. Palm oil is the most widely-produced tropical edible oil. Its used in a vast array of products from ice cream and c…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Drones

Hybrid Drones Could Have Massively Extended Flight Times

Multirotor drones truly took off with the availability of lithium polymer batteries, brushless motors, and cheap IMUs. Their performance continues to improve, but their flight time remains relatively short due to the limits of battery technology. [Nicolai Val…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Modi beats Pope Francis and Dalai Lama in a ranking of the world’s most admired people

In India, politicians are generally perceived to be corrupt and marred in scandals. Yet, prime minister Narendra Modi has managed to break that perception and emerged as one of the most admired people in the world. Ranked the sixth most admired person on the…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Refugees

Dutch top court to rule on Srebrenica liability

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWhat happened at Srebrenica? Explained in under two minutes The Dutch supreme court is to give a final ruling on Friday on whether the Netherlands is partially liable for deaths in Bosnia's Srebrenic…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another’s shoes

Matjaz Slanic/Getty By Donna Lu Artificial intelligence has passed a classic theory of mind test used with chimpanzees. The test probes the ability to perceive the world from the view of another individual and so AIs with this skill could be better at coope…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Boeing 737max

Boeing faces largest loss in its history after a $4.9 billion financial hit due to 737 Max grounding

Ahead of its official quarterly earnings release next week, Boeing on Thursday bit the bullet and announced a huge $4.9 billion after-tax accounting charge due to the financial impact of the 737 Max grounding. This big cut to earnings will produce Boeing's f…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Hiroshima

Supermassive Asteroid 2019 NJ2 Will Zoom Past Earth Today – Mashable India

A number of monstrous asteroids have flown by Earth recently, including the 2008 KV2 and 2006 QV89 making headlines for the possibility of them hitting Earth. Now, another giant space body is all set to approach our planet today and will reach the closest dis…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Super Komachi

Better known as a manufacturing center, Chubu region is turning its talents to nurturing startups

The Chubu region, with Nagoya at its center, has never been known as a land of startups. Although the area is recognized as one of the nation’s largest manufacturing hubs, few IT startups have been established and many students in the region tend to prefer jo…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

Drones

Iran military says all its drones have returned safely to base: report

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran’s top military spokesman said all the country’s drones had returned safely to base, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, after President Donald Trump said a U.S. Navy ship had “destroyed” one. “All drones belonging to Iran i…

bubmagJuly 19, 2019

A Biography Worthy of ‘Hiroshima’ Author John Hersey

Palm oil plantations

Hybrid Drones Could Have Massively Extended Flight Times

Modi beats Pope Francis and Dalai Lama in a ranking of the world’s most admired people

Dutch top court to rule on Srebrenica liability

AI passes theory of mind test by imagining itself in another’s shoes

Boeing faces largest loss in its history after a $4.9 billion financial hit due to 737 Max grounding

Supermassive Asteroid 2019 NJ2 Will Zoom Past Earth Today – Mashable India

Better known as a manufacturing center, Chubu region is turning its talents to nurturing startups

Iran military says all its drones have returned safely to base: report

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