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Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s robot surgeon will sew electrodes into human brains, starting in 2020

Elon Musks super-secretive startup Neuralink has finally revealed where its at on the whole human-machine mind-meld project, and if the phrase "Elon Musk says a monkey has been able to control a computer with its brain" is on your sci-fi apocalypse bingo card…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Yellow Vests

French environment minister quits over spending criticism, lobsters

France’s environment minister resigned on Tuesday (16 July) following a week of reports by an investigative website about his high spending on private lobster dinners and costly renovations of his ministerial residence. In a posting on his Facebook page, Fra…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

Belgian Politicians Insist US Secret Nukes Should Be Out as Report on NATO Disclosed Their Location

In a report detailing NATOs deterrence policy, a Canadian senator for the Defence and Security Committee of the alliances Parliamentary Assembly accidentally revealed several sites the US uses to store its weapons of mass destruction in Europe. The list inclu…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them

On Tuesday evening in San Francisco, SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk finally shed some light on what Neuralink, his company that has raised $158 million to develop ultra high bandwidth brain-machine interfaces to connect humans and computers, has been up to si…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Scotland

Photograph of the week: Glencoe, Scotland, UK

Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands, is beautiful. The kind of beautiful that takes your breath away. But looks can be deceiving. Undoubtedly one of Scotlands most scenic glens, and even voted Scotlands most romantic glen, Glencoe is also a land steeped in blo…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Big Data

Tech Explained: Big Data

The speed of data creation continues to climb. In May 2018, 2.5 quintillion (thats a 1 followed by 18 zeros) bytes of data were created every day. And the pace of data collection is set to continue this meteoric rise. By 2020, there are projected to be 200 bi…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

BUK-Missile

Flight MH17, five years on: What happens next?

So far investigators have identified four suspects, three of which are Russian nationals. (Source: DW) On July 17, 2014, a Malaysian Airlines flight was en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur when a BUK anti-aircraft missile brought down the aircraft over e…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

BUK-Missile

Explained: What you need to know about the MH17 downing and probe

Nearly 300 people, most of them Dutch nationals, were killed when a civilian flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukrainian airspace in 2014. (Source: DW) Nearly 300 people, most of them Dutch nationals, were killed when a civilian flight…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Biological Warfare

Ticking bombs: U.S. used ticks as biological weapons?

(THE SUN) US Military chiefs have been ordered to reveal whether they used diseased TICKS in sick biological warfare experiments. A bill passed in the House of Representatives requires the Pentagon to investigate whether researches infected the insects in th…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Asia, South America Follow Europe and U.S. in Sending Refugees Back to Die

Im not fine at all. Im dying in Libya. Muhammad Hafees sent me the message from a Libyan detention center on May 26 during Islams fasting month of Ramadan. After fleeing Sudans war-torn region of Darfur, the 26-year-old came to Libya two years ago to cross th…

bubmagJuly 17, 2019

Elon Musk’s robot surgeon will sew electrodes into human brains, starting in 2020

French environment minister quits over spending criticism, lobsters

Belgian Politicians Insist US Secret Nukes Should Be Out as Report on NATO Disclosed Their Location

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Says It’s Created Brain-Reading ‘Threads,’ Surgical Robot That Inserts Them

Photograph of the week: Glencoe, Scotland, UK

Tech Explained: Big Data

Flight MH17, five years on: What happens next?

Explained: What you need to know about the MH17 downing and probe

Ticking bombs: U.S. used ticks as biological weapons?

Asia, South America Follow Europe and U.S. in Sending Refugees Back to Die

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