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New York City

Tenants May Get More Protections in New York City, After Decades of Battles. Here’s Why.

Ms. Pendergrass said she was attracted to the apartment because of its $1,200 monthly rent, but she didnt know it was a preferential rent at the time. She was surprised when her landlord increased the rent to $1,400 when she renewed the lease two years later.…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Filter Bubble

[Update: Contacts] Long-awaited robust call blocking features may soon come to Google Phone app

Your smartphone already lets you block annoying callers so that you never have to deal with them again, but what if it could be proactive? Android could soon allow you to block calls and texts from sources that haven't even called you yet. The ability to blo…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Big Data

Big Data Has Transformed Agriculture…In Some Places, Anyway

As spring in the Northern Hemisphere arrives, farmers around the world are making decisions about what crops to plant and how to manage them. In the United States, farmers typically now have troves of data to help make these decisions—on how crops or livestoc…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Recycling

Apple is making it easier to recycle iPhones in the US

According to Apple, each of the Daisy robots can disassemble 1.2 million devices per year, or 15 different iPhone models at a rate of 200 per hour. Recovered materials are recycled back into the manufacturing process, and Apple sends the iPhone batteries Dais…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Censored Internet

Adult Sites’ New Age Verification Checks

Online pornography age checks are going to be mandatory in UK from 15th July but there are number of ecurity implications around this and the possibility of cybercriminals creating fraudulent age verification processes in order to access the personal informat…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Refugees Welcome

How Mexican Restaurateurs Are Taking the Lead on Immigration Activism in NYC

Through pro-immigration goods, employee assistance, and community outreach, these restaurateurs are speaking out to support immigrants “I always present myself as an indigenous woman of color,” Yajaira Saavedra, an owner of the Bronx’s standout Oaxacan restau…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

NATO

Ukraine’s presidential candidate pledges NATO referendum

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) The comedian who is odds-on favorite in Ukraine's presidential election promised Thursday to hold a nationwide referendum on joining NATO only after building a national consensus on the issue. Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a popular comic actor who…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Slavery Abolition

The Constitution Was Never Pro-Slavery

(VisionsOfAmerica/Joe Sohm) It was deliberately written to avoid establishing a legal precedent for ownership of human beingsIn the world of the woke, the U.S. Constitution is, simply on its face, a document of racial oppression. No one less than Bernie Sand…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Paris

France Pays Tribute To the Firefighters Who Saved Notre Dame Cathedral From Collapse

(PARIS) — France paid a daylong tribute Thursday to the Paris firefighters who saved Notre Dame Cathedral from collapse, while construction workers rushed to secure an area above one of the church’s famed rose-shaped windows and other vulnerable sections of t…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

AI-Driven Predictive Analytics: New Opportunities for Financial Institutions

One can argue that even the most innovative banking institutions are bureaucratic enough, and their slow decision-making causing banks to lose their premium over fintech applications, peer to peer lending marketplaces, and payment processors. At the same ti…

bubmagApril 18, 2019

Tenants May Get More Protections in New York City, After Decades of Battles. Here’s Why.

[Update: Contacts] Long-awaited robust call blocking features may soon come to Google Phone app

Big Data Has Transformed Agriculture…In Some Places, Anyway

Apple is making it easier to recycle iPhones in the US

Adult Sites’ New Age Verification Checks

How Mexican Restaurateurs Are Taking the Lead on Immigration Activism in NYC

Ukraine’s presidential candidate pledges NATO referendum

The Constitution Was Never Pro-Slavery

France Pays Tribute To the Firefighters Who Saved Notre Dame Cathedral From Collapse

AI-Driven Predictive Analytics: New Opportunities for Financial Institutions

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