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Panda

Chengdu bleg

Was just there last week! - Ming ting is the most famous of the fly restaurants, was excellent - the Zhang Liangfen water noodles across from the Wenshu Yuan monastery in the middle of town are excellent. More from a friend: Wenshu Yuan Monastery - Must …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Google will now auto-delete your location history (if you tell it to)

Under fire for the sheer amount of personal data it collects, Google will finally allow you to auto-delete your activity and location history, the company announced Wednesday. Users on both iPhone and Android can now opt in to auto-deletion of sensitive loca…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

NSA

Documents show NSA again improperly collected call records

WASHINGTON (AP) Newly released documents show the National Security Agency improperly collected phone records four months after it said it had fixed technical problems that caused a similar collection of data that violated federal law. Internal documents obt…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Boeing 737max

Southwest’s New Normal: Life Without The 737 MAX

Whether youre a once-in-a-while Southwest flyer, or a Southwest loyalist, youve likely noticed that in the past few months the prices for flying on Southwest Airlines have increased. Increased a lot! Ive noticed that flight prices are higher than Ive seen the…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Strange ‘plasticrust’ pollution found on Portuguese island

Strange 'plasticrust' pollution found on Portuguese island

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Geely

China Electric Vehicle Market Snapshot: Automakers, Infrastructure & Battery Technology [GTM Squared]

This special 25-page paper from GTM Squared examines competitive trends in the world's largest electric vehicle market, including charging infrastructure, domestic industry policy drivers, leading EV companies, Chinese battery manufacturing, and foreign autom…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Dirty Tricks: Navalny Aide’s Bid For Moscow Duma Seat Brings Out The Worst

On the face of it, the task ahead of 31-year-old lawyer Lyubov Sobol seems simple enough. To qualify as a candidate for the September 8 Moscow City Duma elections, Sobol just needs to submit 4,500 verifiable signatures of support by July 6. But Sobol is not …

bubmagJune 26, 2019

New York City

Hey, Tourists! Here’s Where to Dance and Drink in New York City for Pride

The Stonewall Inn is probably the worlds most famous gay bar. It opened in 1967, a year after laws forbidding night life establishments from knowingly serving alcohol to homosexuals were overturned. Although it was Mafia-owned, the constant police raids were…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Holocaust

Holocaust: Dutch rail firm NS confirms compensation

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption NS has contributed to the restoration of the museum at Westerbork camp The Netherlands' state-run rail company NS has said it will pay tens of millions of euros in compensation to Holocaust victims and their familie…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Seleção

Sense and Sensibility at the World Cup

There is perhaps no more luminous incarnation of Marx's concept of commodity fetishism the notion that under capitalism, the social relations that underpin production are disguised behind seemingly objective measures of commodities' economic value than footba…

bubmagJune 26, 2019

Chengdu bleg

Google will now auto-delete your location history (if you tell it to)

Documents show NSA again improperly collected call records

Southwest’s New Normal: Life Without The 737 MAX

Strange ‘plasticrust’ pollution found on Portuguese island

China Electric Vehicle Market Snapshot: Automakers, Infrastructure & Battery Technology [GTM Squared]

Dirty Tricks: Navalny Aide’s Bid For Moscow Duma Seat Brings Out The Worst

Hey, Tourists! Here’s Where to Dance and Drink in New York City for Pride

Holocaust: Dutch rail firm NS confirms compensation

Sense and Sensibility at the World Cup

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