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Yellow Vests

Yellow Vests, Brexit and Cruise Backlash: Why Carnival Can’t Catch a Break in Europe

Recession in Southern Europe. The yellow vest revolts in France. Citizen backlash in Venice, Barcelona and Amsterdam. Price wars in Germany. And dont forget about Brexit. Add it all up, and Carnival Corp has a big Europe problem. The weight of the old worlds…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

eSports

Hearthstone will Hall of Fame Mind Blast, Vanish, and add 10 new Classic cards

Blizzard Entertainment has detailed some big changes coming to Hearthstone, including moving the Rogue card Vanish and the Priest spell Mind Blast to the Hall of Fame and introducing several new cards for the Classic set. Hearthstone has been a big hit and k…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Google

Google brings together BigQuery and Kaggle in new integration

Google bought Kaggle in 2017 to provide a data science community for its big data processing tools on Google Cloud. Today, the company announced a new direct integration between Kaggle and BigQuery, Google’s cloud data warehouse. More specifically, data scie…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Singapore

How serious is Wellington about its ‘climate change emergency’?

OPINION: Help! Call the climate change police! It's an emergency! Given that some local bodies recently voted against declaring a climate change emergency, with some politicians still denying climate change actually exists, I was heartened to see so many Well…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Skateboard

One Sneaker Can Change Everything: ‘Stranger Things’ Stars in This Week’s Best Footwear Drops

Over the past seven days, all eyes were focused on Paris Fashion Week SS20 where Virgil Abloh and his Off-White imprint debuted Futura-assisted Nike SB Dunk Lows, while 1017 ALYX 9SM, Pigalle and sacai also debuted Nike collaborations on the runway. SANKUANZ …

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Big Data

Big data says food is too sweet

New research from the Monell Center analyzed nearly 400,000 food reviews posted by Amazon customers to gain real-world insight into the food choices that people make. The findings reveal that many people find the foods in today's marketplace to be too sweet."…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Air Pollution

America’s Leading Medical Groups Declare ‘Public Health Emergency’ Over Climate Change

Climate change is set to make us sicker. There are wildfires and their air pollution; insects and the diseases they spread. Theres drought and the consequences of water shortages, as were seeing in Chennai, India. Heatwaves will likely kill thousands. The imp…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Waymo is partnering with Renault and Nissan to launch it’s global expansion efforts (GOOGL)

Alphabet's self-driving vehicle unit Waymo has entered into a partnership with global automaker Renault and Nissan to jointly explore driverless mobility services in France and Japan, each auto firm's respective home market, according to The Wall Street Journ…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Water Scarcity

Study: A gigantic deposit of fresh water is hidden off the Northeast coast

Under the undrinkably salty water of the ocean off the northeastern coast of the United States lies a gigantic deposit of relatively fresh water, scientists have found. The aquifer, a layer of water-bearing porous sediments, generally begins about 600 feet b…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Times Square

ABC Wins Sunday Ratings With Nik Wallenda’s Live Highwire Act In Times Square

ABC easily won Sunday night — all without a net! Highwire Live in Time Square with Nik Wallenda had audiences sitting at the edge of their seat as they watched circus troupe members Nik Wallenda and Lijana Wallenda walk the highwire 25 stories above street le…

bubmagJune 24, 2019

Yellow Vests, Brexit and Cruise Backlash: Why Carnival Can’t Catch a Break in Europe

Hearthstone will Hall of Fame Mind Blast, Vanish, and add 10 new Classic cards

Google brings together BigQuery and Kaggle in new integration

How serious is Wellington about its ‘climate change emergency’?

One Sneaker Can Change Everything: ‘Stranger Things’ Stars in This Week’s Best Footwear Drops

Big data says food is too sweet

America’s Leading Medical Groups Declare ‘Public Health Emergency’ Over Climate Change

Waymo is partnering with Renault and Nissan to launch it’s global expansion efforts (GOOGL)

Study: A gigantic deposit of fresh water is hidden off the Northeast coast

ABC Wins Sunday Ratings With Nik Wallenda’s Live Highwire Act In Times Square

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