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Paris

The Tour de France favorites, ranked

Name: Geraint Thomas Nickname: G Nationality: Welsh Age: 33 Height: 1.83 m./6 ft. Weight: 67 kg./147 lb. Team: Ineos How heavy lies the crown? Thomas is high among the picks to win the Tour again this year, but things are more complicated for the Welshm…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Alibaba

China’s tech companies answer Xi’s Yangtze River call to arms – Nikkei Asian Review

When the annals of how the U.S. lost its early 21st century technology battle with China come to be written, a chapter may be devoted to a visit by President Xi Jinping to the Yangtze River. As if channeling the spirit of an ancient civilization last year, X…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Trade War

European markets cautious as trade war fears linger

European markets remained cautious despite Wall Street closing at record highs Wednesday, as trade war concerns lingered. Markets have been subdued with the U.S. shut for business for the Fourth of July holiday. Whats moving the market? China Commerce Min…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Keeping up with the Google Nest Hub: The best smart displays of 2019 – CNET

The Google Nest Hub and the Amazon Echo Show are two of the best options. Chris Monroe/CNET Since the Amazon Echo Show launched in 2017, almost a dozen smart displays have hit the market, with a new batch launching this summer. This blossoming category of …

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

George Orwell x Leonardo da Vinci / Daan Roosegaarde for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019

© Studio Daan Roosegaarde What happens when the sensor-imbued city acquires the ability to see almost as if it had eyes? Ahead of the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of UrbanismArchitecture (UABB), titled "Urban Interactions," Archdaily is working with the curators …

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Water Scarcity

Ageing Large Dams and Future Water Crisis – Economic and Political Weekly

Indias current and future water crisis is well-documented in Indias policies and water management discourse. Large parts of India are already water-stressed. Meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for water due to population growth, increasing urbanisation, changi…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Holocaust

It Depends on What You Mean by Fascism

What about the private detention centers for undocumented immigrants, which Ms. Ocasio-Cortez described last month as concentration camps? After the comparison, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum issued a news release denouncing comparisons to the Ho…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Christianity

How the Catholic Church Lost Italy to the Far Right

On paper, Italys deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, is a dubious poster child for Catholicism. Mr. Salvini is divorced. He has two children by two women and is in a relationship with a third. But that hasnt stopped him from reinventing himself as Italys C…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Cold War

Why Trump Likes Tanks

Mr. Trump seems to see tanks as a symbol of military strength, of Americas ability to bend the world to its will by means of brute force and threats of fire and fury. Having avoided service in the Vietnam War by way of draft deferments, Mr. Trump has presumab…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

Super Komachi

News24.com | Japan orders over a million to evacuate amid torrential rains

Japanese authorities have issued evacuation orders for more than one million people in southern parts of the country hit by heavy rains, a year after deadly floods killed more than 200 people. Small landslides were already being reported in parts of the affe…

bubmagJuly 4, 2019

The Tour de France favorites, ranked

China’s tech companies answer Xi’s Yangtze River call to arms – Nikkei Asian Review

European markets cautious as trade war fears linger

Keeping up with the Google Nest Hub: The best smart displays of 2019 – CNET

George Orwell x Leonardo da Vinci / Daan Roosegaarde for the Shenzhen Biennale (UABB) 2019

Ageing Large Dams and Future Water Crisis – Economic and Political Weekly

It Depends on What You Mean by Fascism

How the Catholic Church Lost Italy to the Far Right

Why Trump Likes Tanks

News24.com | Japan orders over a million to evacuate amid torrential rains

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