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Solar Storm

Is A Massive ‘Superflare’ At A Tiny Jupiter-Sized Star A Clue To How Life Ends, Or How It Begins?

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Artists' impression of a "superflare" on an ultracool L-dwarf star. University of Warwick/Mark Garlick A small, cool star 248 light years from Earth produced a "superflare&am…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Trevor Noah Honors ‘Daily Show’ Alum Hasan Minhaj In Time 100 List

Asian American trailblazer Hasan Minhaj has been named one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2019, and his former “Daily Show” colleague honored him. Host Trevor Noah, who started at the “Daily Show” around the same time Minhaj did, wrote the “Patrio…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Protectionism

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bubmagApril 17, 2019

VR

Fair Warning: Facebook Is Reportedly Building Its Own Voice Assistant

What we can all agree on is that of the heavy hitters operating in the voice assistant marketSiri, Alexa, Google Assistant, and I guess Cortana and Bixby if were being generousexactly none are made by Facebook. We can probably also agree things ought to stay …

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Brexit

North Of London, Brexit Supporters Gather To ‘Feel Proud And Unashamed’

Will Grover, a local councillor in Lincolnshire, tells pro-Brexit voters in the village of Horncastle that they should be proud of voting to leave the European Union. Grover says Brexiteers can feel stigmatized for their views, and he hoped the gathering migh…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

New York City

A Fight Is Brewing Over New York City’s Big New Pipeline Project

More than five years have passed since a major new natural gas pipeline entered the boundaries of New York City. Since then, the citys undergone a massive building boom, adding some 24,000 new housing units a year since 2017. Every new building, however, requ…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Climate Change

Climate Activists Occupy Major London Landmarks for a Third Day

Public transport is part of the solution to the problem of climate change, so it doesnt make much sense for us to target it, said Laura Talbot, a retired teacher, who traveled four hours from Yorkshire to participate in the protests with her granddaughter. W…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Yemen Civil War

How Did Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Dem Become Bernie Sanders’ Co-Chair?

A few weeks before Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) launched his presidential campaign, he and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) went out for what Khanna thought was going to be a late lunch focused on policy strategy. Over plates of greasy Chinese food, Khanna and Sanders ta…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Machine Learning

10 Ways Smart Businesses Are Leveraging IoT And AI To Bolster Business Conversion In 2019

As a business owner, you must understand that creating awareness for your brand, product or services online and converting this awareness into actual product sales or service registrations are two different things. The latter entails that you have a compelli…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Hiroshima

Put Aside Your Purity Politics and Embrace My Feckless Centrism

As the 2020 presidential election draws closer, its more important than ever for Democrats to put aside their differences to unite around my feckless centrist candidate. We must remember that this is simply not the time to discuss and debate the merits of eac…

bubmagApril 17, 2019

Is A Massive ‘Superflare’ At A Tiny Jupiter-Sized Star A Clue To How Life Ends, Or How It Begins?

Trevor Noah Honors ‘Daily Show’ Alum Hasan Minhaj In Time 100 List

Bonus Quotation of the Day…

Fair Warning: Facebook Is Reportedly Building Its Own Voice Assistant

North Of London, Brexit Supporters Gather To ‘Feel Proud And Unashamed’

A Fight Is Brewing Over New York City’s Big New Pipeline Project

Climate Activists Occupy Major London Landmarks for a Third Day

How Did Tech Billionaires’ Favorite Dem Become Bernie Sanders’ Co-Chair?

10 Ways Smart Businesses Are Leveraging IoT And AI To Bolster Business Conversion In 2019

Put Aside Your Purity Politics and Embrace My Feckless Centrism

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