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Star Wars

Kanye West turns to Star Wars for low-income housing design – CNET

Tatooine has some pretty bleak architecture. Twentieth Century Fox Film Luke Skywalker's house on Star Wars desert planet Tatooine looks a bit like a sandy igloo. Rapper and singer Kanye West has studied the look of Tatooine's architecture and is using it t…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Refugees

Democrats’ Attitudes Toward Refugees Have Shifted A Lot In 4 Years

Democratic attitudes toward refugees have grown substantially more welcoming in the past four years, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. In a 2015 poll taken after President Barack Obama proposed admitting more Syrian refugees, Democrats were split on what t…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Iran Liberalism

Four decades later, did the Iranian revolution fulfill its promises?

If Iran were to hold a referendum on the Islamic Republic today, over 70% would clearly oppose itamong them the wealthy, academics, clerics, village, and city-dwellers. This remarkable hypothetical was not declared by an exiled Iranian dissident, but by the w…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Black Hole

Hubble Space Telescope Finds Strange Black Hole Disk That Shouldn’t Exist

Astronomers using the NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) Hubble Space Telescope have spotted a mysterious disk of thin material surrounding a supermassive black hole. The strange disk was observed in the center of NGC 3147, a spiral galaxy that’s located 130 m…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Cold War

A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation at Levels 800,000 Times Normal

Using a robotic sub, a team of investigators has detected traces of radiation leaking from Komsomoletsa Soviet nuclear submarine that sank 30 years ago in the Norwegian Sea. The recorded radiation levels are unusually high, but scientists say its not threaten…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Machine Learning

Real World Cloud Migrations: Azure Front Door for global HTTP and path based load-balancing

As I've mentioned lately, I'm quietly moving my Website from a physical machine to a number of Cloud Services hosted in Azure. This is an attempt to not just modernize the system - no reason to change things just to change them - but to take advantage of a nu…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Astroturfing

How lawmakers can use Robert Mueller’s testimony to expose the biggest scandal in the Russia investigation

Former Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scheduled to appear before Congress on July 17 to testify about his findings during the Russia investigation but it remains an open question whether the hearing will be a bombshell or a damp squib. One reason to think…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Black Hole

Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black hole

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Plastic Pollution

LOEWE Drops a Range of Technical Menswear for New Fall Collection

LOEWE is releasing today its second Winter Eye/LOEWE/Nature collection, full of technical menswear ready for this fall and winter. The collection includes waterproof parkas in vibrant hues, fleeces and knitwear made from recycled and organic cotton, T-shirts,…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Free Internet

The End of the Free Internet Is Near

Not too long ago, conventional wisdom held that the internet should enjoy minimal government oversight precisely because it was a technology that enabled open and free speech for everyone. The remedy for hateful and offensive remarks, that 1990s-vintage argum…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Kanye West turns to Star Wars for low-income housing design – CNET

Democrats’ Attitudes Toward Refugees Have Shifted A Lot In 4 Years

Four decades later, did the Iranian revolution fulfill its promises?

Hubble Space Telescope Finds Strange Black Hole Disk That Shouldn’t Exist

A Sunken Cold War Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation at Levels 800,000 Times Normal

Real World Cloud Migrations: Azure Front Door for global HTTP and path based load-balancing

How lawmakers can use Robert Mueller’s testimony to expose the biggest scandal in the Russia investigation

Hubble spies something mysterious around a supermassive black hole

LOEWE Drops a Range of Technical Menswear for New Fall Collection

The End of the Free Internet Is Near

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