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Brexit Negotiator

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

EU leaders are meeting in Brussels for a two-day summit, amid signs they are moving closer to nominating the next president of the European Commission, as well as other top political posts. The outgoing President of the European Council, Donald Tusk has indi…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

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Converged security takes centre stage at IFSEC – TeckView

In a digital era, combining physical and cyber intelligence is key to overcoming modern security management challenges, according to a panel of industry experts. Change is the only constant, and the way to deal with that is by converging physical and cyber s…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

VR

You Can Now Play Mass Effect 2 In First-Person

The Mass Effect games are third-person by design, but that hasnt stopped LordEmil1 from creating a mod that lets PC gamers play the best of themMass Effect 2from a first-person perspective. You cant play the whole game like this, as combat isnt working prope…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Climate Change

US EPA gives coal industry a reprieve

Amid scientists' increasingly urgent warnings, the Trump administration has ordered a sweeping about-face on Obama-era efforts to fight climate change, easing restrictions on coal-fired power plants in a move it predicted would revitalise America's sagging coal industry. As miners in hard hats and coal-country lawmakers applauded, Environmental Protection Agency chief…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Scotland

Memorial garden opens to public after Aberdeen baby ashes scandal

A "peaceful" memorial garden featuring a sculpture for people affected by the baby ashes scandal in Aberdeen has opened to the public. Baby and adult ashes were mixed together at Hazlehead Crematorium and given back to relatives of the adult. But, the paren…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

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Alesha MacPhail: Pupils and teachers to remember murder victim

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Alesha MacPhail was a pupil at Chapelside Primary in Airdrie Teachers and pupils at Alesha MacPhail's school are to celebrate her life ahead of the first anniversary of her murder. The six-year-old had just finishe…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

BUK-Missile

International investigators indict the suspected killers of 298 people on flight MH17

BODIES RAINED down from the sky on July 17th 2014, landing in the sunflower fields of eastern Ukraine. Limbs littered the gardens in the village of Grabovo, and travel books lay along the roads. The 298 people who took off aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 i…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps

Argo AI is releasing curated data along with high-definition maps to researchers for free, the latest company in the autonomous vehicle industry to open source some of the information it has captured while developing and testing self-driving cars. The aim, t…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Slavery Abolition

Twitter Users Honor Juneteenth On Its 154th Anniversary

People on Twitter are celebrating and reflecting on Juneteenth, a day of remembrance that marks the official end of chattel slavery in America. On June 19, 1865, Union Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to issue an official order to end slaver…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

Refugees

Ecuador: Colombia refugees stage weeks-long protest against UNHCR

Quito, Ecuador - Gina Pena said she was leaving a humanitarian aid office in Ecuador's capital Quito one day when she saw the man who had threatened her life back in Colombia. "If I open my mouth, he'll cut my family up. That's what he told me," Pena recalle…

bubmagJune 20, 2019

EU leaders to discuss who should fill senior positions

Converged security takes centre stage at IFSEC – TeckView

You Can Now Play Mass Effect 2 In First-Person

US EPA gives coal industry a reprieve

Memorial garden opens to public after Aberdeen baby ashes scandal

Alesha MacPhail: Pupils and teachers to remember murder victim

International investigators indict the suspected killers of 298 people on flight MH17

Self-driving car startup Argo AI is giving researchers free access to its HD maps

Twitter Users Honor Juneteenth On Its 154th Anniversary

Ecuador: Colombia refugees stage weeks-long protest against UNHCR

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