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Silk Road

Raja Mandala: A silk road for the heavens

Delhi, which stayed away from the launch of the Forum in 2017 despite considerable pressure from Beijing, has announced that it will sit out again. As the second iteration of Chinas Belt and Road Forum convenes this week in Beijing, India has a strange karma…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Fortnite

Dial up! How to Find the two Telephones in Fortnite

One of Fortnite's Season 8, Week 8 challenges will have players running out and trying to call some friends using two giant telephones. Both the Durr Burger and Pizza Pit telephones are hidden on the map. The goal is to go out to find them and dial the number…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Geely

Which Chinese Cars Are Coming to the U.S.? The Shanghai Auto Show Offered Strong Hints

From Car and Driver The Shanghai auto show had some names already well known in the U.S., among them Buick and Karma, formerly known as Fisker. The car market in China is slowing slightly, although sales of EVs and plug-in hybrids are growing dramatically. …

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Skateboard

Juice WRLD Spends More Than $42,000 on ‘Sneaker Shopping’

Following last month’s release of his sophomore album, Death Race for Love, Juice WRLD appears on the latest episode of Sneaker Shopping. While at KITH in New York City, Juice and Joe La Puma browse the shelves and talk footwear, style, and growing up in Chic…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

NSA

Comments on March Existing Home Sales

Earlier: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Decreased to 5.21 million in March A few key points: 1) The key for housing - and the overall economy - is new home sales, single family housing starts and overall residential investment. Overall, this is still a somewhat…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Elon Musk

Here’s how to watch Tesla’s self-driving event today

Tesla is about to hold an “Autonomy Investor Day” today at its headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The event was slated to start at 2PM ET (but is running a little late), and you can watch it above or at this link. The event comes two days before Tesla is…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Machine Learning

Personalizing UX: Why Zillow Group moved beyond AB testing

Aaron Wreblewski, AI engineer at Zillow Group, discussed the company’s bandits testing work at MarTech Conference. Zillow Group faced a problem. The online real estate database company too many personalized user experience tests it wanted to run on the websi…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Greta Thunberg

These Teen Climate Activists Are the Only Good Thing About Earth Day

Confession: I hate Earth Day. The first handful of Earth Days in the 1970s helped galvanize support environmental policies, which is in part why we ended up with the Environmental Protection Agency and laws like the Clean Air Act. For that, I salute you, 19…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Solar Storm

Carnival of Space 608

The Carnival of Space 608 is up at Everyday Spacer. Universe Today – Space Weather Forecasts can now give Satellites One Whole Day of Warning when a Killer Solar Storm is Inbound by Evan Gough Earths fleet of satellites is in a vulnerable position. When sol…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Drones

See NASA test a swarm of 100 US Navy Cicada drones – CNET

The drones come equipped with temperature, air pressure and wind-speed sensors. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET Hives and Cicadas. It might sound like NASA is getting into entomology, but it's actually taking a new set of drones for a test run. NAS…

bubmagApril 22, 2019

Raja Mandala: A silk road for the heavens

Dial up! How to Find the two Telephones in Fortnite

Which Chinese Cars Are Coming to the U.S.? The Shanghai Auto Show Offered Strong Hints

Juice WRLD Spends More Than $42,000 on ‘Sneaker Shopping’

Comments on March Existing Home Sales

Here’s how to watch Tesla’s self-driving event today

Personalizing UX: Why Zillow Group moved beyond AB testing

These Teen Climate Activists Are the Only Good Thing About Earth Day

Carnival of Space 608

See NASA test a swarm of 100 US Navy Cicada drones – CNET

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