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Monsanto

US judge slashes Roundup jury award to $25.3m; Bayer still plans to appeal

A federal judge on Monday slashed a damages award Bayer owed a California man who blamed Roundup weed killer for his cancer, to $25.27m from $80.27m, while rejecting the companys bid for a new trial. US District Judge Vince Chhabria in San Francisco said evi…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Refugees Welcome

Flyers linked to neo-Nazi group pinned outside Kirkland, Kenmore churches – Mercer Island Reporter

Members of the Holy Spirit Lutheran Church in Kirkland found them on June 30, which coincided with the last day of Pride month. The flyer outside the Northlake Lutheran in Kenmore was found at the same time. It wasn’t the typical advertisement or promotional …

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

SpaceX

Take a virtual peek at what future Hyperloop stations could look like

It teamed up with CG/interactive technology company INDG and graphics studio AltSpace (not the same company as AltSpaceVR, which Microsoft acquired late last year) to create the 3D experience. The finished product shows the pod's exterior and interior design,…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Belt and Road

Papua New Guinea leader to visit Australia as it seeks to shore up its Pacific influence

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape will make a state visit to Australia, its government said on Tuesday, as it seeks to cement its position with Pacific island’s new leader amid rising competition for influence in the region. Ma…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Xi Jinping

China forced one horror game publisher to close, but the whole region felt it

Much like the phantoms that materialise and disappear within the dusky corridors of Devotion, the game itself felt like an apparition. Launched in February, the solid Taiwanese horror game vanished from Steam just weeks afterwards, due to the discovery of in-…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Xi Jinping

China forced one horror game publisher to close, but the whole region felt it

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Elon Musk

How this program turns ordinary teens into tech superheroes

In 2016, Ananya Chadha was just a regular 14-year-old girl struggling to fit in at her high school in Toronto. She often had sci-fi-inspired fantasies about building futuristic technologies like jet-pack shoes, going so far as to look into where she could buy…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

China's Strategy

AI teaches itself to complete the Rubik’s cube in just 20 MOVES

A deep-learning algorithm has been developed which can solve the Rubik's cube faster than any human can. It never fails to complete the puzzle, with a 100 per cent success rate and managing it in around 20 moves. Humans can beat the AI's mark of 18 second…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Monsanto

US judge slashes jury award in Roundup cancer case

A US judge on Monday slashed punitive damages a jury ordered Monsanto to pay in a Roundup cancer trial, saying the sum was too high despite the company’s “reprehensible” conduct. US District Court Judge Vince Chhabria denied a request by Monsanto for a new t…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Silk Road

GLV Gossamer Merge Resilience and Urbanism in Xi’an, China

© GVL Gossamer GLV Gossamer has released images of their design for a 19 kilometer stretch of waterfront along the Jing River in Xian, China. The proposal, a finalist in an international design competition, celebrates the sites history at the origin of the S…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

US judge slashes Roundup jury award to $25.3m; Bayer still plans to appeal

Flyers linked to neo-Nazi group pinned outside Kirkland, Kenmore churches – Mercer Island Reporter

Take a virtual peek at what future Hyperloop stations could look like

Papua New Guinea leader to visit Australia as it seeks to shore up its Pacific influence

China forced one horror game publisher to close, but the whole region felt it

China forced one horror game publisher to close, but the whole region felt it

How this program turns ordinary teens into tech superheroes

AI teaches itself to complete the Rubik’s cube in just 20 MOVES

US judge slashes jury award in Roundup cancer case

GLV Gossamer Merge Resilience and Urbanism in Xi’an, China

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