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Brexit

EU’s Tusk: Brexit deal not open for renegotiation

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders are looking forward to working with a new British prime minister, but the divorce agreement signed by Theresa May is not open for renegotiation, the chairman of the leaders Donald Tusk said on Friday. Speaking aft…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

Turkey: PKK leader calls for neutrality in Istanbul mayoral vote

Imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Abdullah Ocalan, has called on pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) to "remain neutral" in Istanbul's mayoral elections, defying Kurdish support for the opposition candidate. "Abdullah Ocalan, in…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Android

The Rise of the “Pot-Bots” — Can Investors Profit From Technology That’s Disrupting How Cannabis Is Sold?

Automated teller machines (ATMs) revolutionized the banking industry. Customers were able to withdraw or deposit money anytime they wanted. Waiting times in lines inside the bank were cut drastically. And banks made more money as their operational efficiencie…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Google

Google was never really serious about tablets

Years of reboots, both literal and metaphorical Google’s getting out of the tablet hardware business, canceling two different tablets it was building and reassigning those employees to other projects. And as it did with the Pixel 4 rumors, the company decided…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

eSports

Esports return to the X Games with ‘Apex Legends’

The June qualifiers will pit teams from North America, Europe and Australia / New Zealand against one another. There will be five winners, two from the US, two from Europe and one from the southern hemisphere, who will go through to the August finals. Overal…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Xi Jinping

Friendlier Days for North Korea and China? Maybe Not.

The Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua said on Thursday that China still backed a suspension for suspension proposal put forward by Foreign Minister Wang Yi several years ago, in which the North would suspend nuclear testing while the United States and Sout…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Machine Learning

Unmasking Adversarial AI with Pin-Yu Chen

“A neural network is a big, giant, and complicated model, as it kind of learns by itself in an intuitive fashion. As a researcher, we don’t have much control over what a neural network is learning, so establishing whether it is poisoned is a very challenging …

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Fortnite

Spotify Premium vs. Apple Music: What’s the best value?

It's never been easier to listen to any music you could possibly fathom, no matter where in the world you are, but that doesn't mean the choice of how to do that is easy. While alternatives like Pandora, Title and Amazon Music exist and have their audiences,…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

CCTV

Safety of Female Passengers in Trains

Policing on Railways being a State subject, prevention of crime, registration of cases, their investigation and maintenance of law & order in Railway premises as well as on running trains are the statutory responsibility of the State Governments, which th…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

Air Pollution

What cities would look like if kids designed them

Air pollution has a particularly damaging effect on children. They’re still growing and breathe faster than adults do. They also live closer to the ground, where the most polluting gases from vehicles accumulate. Pollution from traffic has been linked to prob…

bubmagJune 21, 2019

EU’s Tusk: Brexit deal not open for renegotiation

Turkey: PKK leader calls for neutrality in Istanbul mayoral vote

The Rise of the “Pot-Bots” — Can Investors Profit From Technology That’s Disrupting How Cannabis Is Sold?

Google was never really serious about tablets

Esports return to the X Games with ‘Apex Legends’

Friendlier Days for North Korea and China? Maybe Not.

Unmasking Adversarial AI with Pin-Yu Chen

Spotify Premium vs. Apple Music: What’s the best value?

Safety of Female Passengers in Trains

What cities would look like if kids designed them

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