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Brexit

Bogus Brexit murder plot and other lies planted online by Russian accounts: study

LONDON (Reuters) - In August 2018, Spanish authorities uncovered a plot by anti-Brexit campaigners to assassinate leading Brexiteer and now favorite to be Britain’s next prime minister, Boris Johnson. Or did they? That story and others like it were created …

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Water Pollution

How Many Times Does a River Have to Burn Before It Matters?

The mayors connections were also important. One year after the fire, Carl Stokess brother, Louis, who represented several Cleveland neighborhoods in Congress, supported a water-pollution bill in the House and used the Cuyahoga River to defend it. The rape of…

bubmagJune 23, 2019

Palestine

‘Trump’s $50-billion Middle East plan is a win-win for Israel & a loss for Palestine’

The so-called “opportunity of the century,” which US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, presented to media on Saturday, is entitled to create a million jobs in the West Bank and Gaza, while doubling Palestine’s GDP in 10 years. It would be ac…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

New York City

Mermaid Parade 2019 revelry celebrated Pride, panned Trump, and looked fabulous

It's June 22, the first Saturday after the official start of the summer season. And just like they do every year, revelers gathered in New York's Coney Island for another round of Mermaid Parade celebrations. Since 1983, the annual Mermaid Parade has come to…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Fortnite

Season 10 of Fortnite onward will require at least DirectX 11

In a statement from The Fortnite Team over at Epic Games, it’s been announced that as of Season 10, the PC version of Fortnite will require players to have a graphics card that can support Microsoft DirectX 11. Over the years, a DirectX 11-capable graphics c…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Machine Learning

Adam Cheyer: Samsung’s plan for winning with Bixby is empowering third-party developers

Adam Cheyer, a Brandeis University and UCLA alum with degrees in computer science and AI, knows a thing or two about digital assistants. He previously led the Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes (CALO) project at SRI International’s Artificial Intel…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

BUK-Missile

Did MH17 passenger predict crash?

A Dutch man's chilling Facebook post before boarding Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 seems to have foreshadowed the tragedy ahead. As passengers started to shuffle towards the boarding gate for Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, it was just another hectic day at…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Holocaust

Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance

Consider how abolition, the great moral crusade of the 19th century, is now taught in schools. The New York State Regents curriculum guide, which shapes public high school education in the state, refers to people who took action to abolish slavery and names f…

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Brexit Negotiator

Tory leadership hustings: Boris Johnson was as lukewarm as a Rotary Club after-dinner speaker

So a couple of TV firsts there then. The controversial drama critic Kenneth Tynan may have been the first person to utter the F-word on British television back in 1965, but it was left to a Conservative Party activist from the West Midlands to drop an F-bomb …

bubmagJune 22, 2019

SpaceX

NASA just set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches, with SpaceX in the lead

There’s a space race happening right now. It’s not between the United States and Russia, or any nations at all, for that matter, but it’s definitely happening. It’s a race between SpaceX and Boeing to be the first company to deliver a crew-capable spacecraft …

bubmagJune 22, 2019

Bogus Brexit murder plot and other lies planted online by Russian accounts: study

How Many Times Does a River Have to Burn Before It Matters?

‘Trump’s $50-billion Middle East plan is a win-win for Israel & a loss for Palestine’

Mermaid Parade 2019 revelry celebrated Pride, panned Trump, and looked fabulous

Season 10 of Fortnite onward will require at least DirectX 11

Adam Cheyer: Samsung’s plan for winning with Bixby is empowering third-party developers

Did MH17 passenger predict crash?

Stonewall and the Myth of Self-Deliverance

Tory leadership hustings: Boris Johnson was as lukewarm as a Rotary Club after-dinner speaker

NASA just set preliminary dates for its commercial crew launches, with SpaceX in the lead

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