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New York City

Biden, in Foreign Policy Speech, Castigates Trump and Urges Global Diplomacy

In the seven-page fact sheet that accompanied Mr. Bidens speech, he provided a three-pronged blueprint for accomplishing his foreign policy agenda, including specific early actions he would undertake as president, both domestically and abroad. He pledged, for…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Bees

Monoculture Farming with Pollinator-Dependent Crops Threatens Food Security, Study Suggests

New research suggests that global trends in farming practices are undermining the pollinators crops depend on and putting agricultural productivity and stability at risk, particularly in some Asian and South American nations A multinational team of researche…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Climate Change

Why We’re Challenging the 2020 Democrats to a Climate Summit

Its been said before, but it bears repeating: The first round of Democratic presidential debates failed the planet. In a combined 240 minutes of discussionat an event held in city poised to sink into the oceanthe moderators devoted a combined 15 minutes of ai…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Bubble

Peak Design’s Travel Tripod Has Raised $8M+ with 7 Days to Go

Peak Design’s new game-changing Travel Tripod has been a smash hit on Kickstarter. Since being announced on May 21st, it has already raised over $8.4 million from over 19,000 backers, and there’s still 7 days to go. This is the San Francisco-based company’s …

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Machine Learning

Valve Has a New Search Tool That Could Fix a Major Annoyance With Steam

Today, Valve is introducing a suite of new features as part of an initiative that gives users an early look at more experimental Steam tools. One of them is called the Interactive Recommender which promises to be an improved game recommendation system powered…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Machine Learning

Steam launches Steam Labs to house feature experiments

Share this article Companies in this article Valve Today, Valve has unveiled a new hub on Steam dedicated to experimental features, called Steam Labs. Steam Labs is intended as a way for Valve to test new ideas for features on the storefront and receive f…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Electric Car

Ex-Tesla Engineer: Okay, Yes, I Uploaded Autopilot Trade Secrets to My iCloud—What’s the Big Deal?

A former Tesla engineer admitted on Monday that ahead of leaving the company and joining a competitor, he uploaded Tesla files to his personal iCloud account as well as made .zip files with the companys Autopilot trade secrets. However, the ex-employee, Guang…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Donald Trump

House panel authorizes subpoenas for Jared Kushner and Trump officials

(CNN)The House Judiciary Committee on Thursday broadened its investigation into President Donald Trump and possible obstruction of justice, authorizing subpoenas to a dozen individuals that included the President's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. The committee al…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Water Scarcity

Solar Panels Could Make Saltwater Safe for Farming

From Popular Mechanics A new device created by researchers at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia can purify water through solar power. While there have been previous attempts to merge solar power and clean water, the scien…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Are Air Travelers Fated To Join Smokers As Social Pariahs?

Greta Thunberg (3rdL behind the banner), the 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, marches during the "Global Strike For Future" movement on a global day of student protests aiming to spark world leaders into action on climate change on May 24, 2019 AFP/Gett…

bubmagJuly 11, 2019

Biden, in Foreign Policy Speech, Castigates Trump and Urges Global Diplomacy

Monoculture Farming with Pollinator-Dependent Crops Threatens Food Security, Study Suggests

Why We’re Challenging the 2020 Democrats to a Climate Summit

Peak Design’s Travel Tripod Has Raised $8M+ with 7 Days to Go

Valve Has a New Search Tool That Could Fix a Major Annoyance With Steam

Steam launches Steam Labs to house feature experiments

Ex-Tesla Engineer: Okay, Yes, I Uploaded Autopilot Trade Secrets to My iCloud—What’s the Big Deal?

House panel authorizes subpoenas for Jared Kushner and Trump officials

Solar Panels Could Make Saltwater Safe for Farming

Are Air Travelers Fated To Join Smokers As Social Pariahs?

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