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The eight biggest flops, fails, and blunders in E3 history

Every year, gamers around the world tune in for E3 for exciting game and hardware reveals. While there has been a myriad of awesome E3 moments throughout its history dating back to 1995, it can’t all be good. Some E3 press conferences have been comically bad.…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Recycling

Apple expands repair service to all U.S. Best Buy stores

Best Buy’s Geek Squad already provided repair services for Apple products as an Authorized Apple Service Provider, but as customers noted, the service wasn’t always fantastic. Today, Apple announced that Best Buy has expanded its Apple service and repair cap…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

U.N. Report Finds ‘Credible Evidence’ to Investigate Saudi Crown Prince’s Role in Jamal Khashoggi’s Killing

A United Nations special report has found “credible evidence” warranting further investigation of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for his role in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year — a conclusion that follows a five-month investigation…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

BUK-Missile

MH17 suspects charged with murder over over 298 deaths will likely escape justice

The charges against four men over the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 is meant to show that the efforts to find those culpable for the deaths of 298 passengers and crew five years ago have not been abandoned. International warrants have been …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Astroturfing

Computational politics. Twitter, big data for sale or barter

Broke: Survey questions, supplemented by a layer of latent data that gave correlational guidance at the group level but not precise individual targeting Woke: User generated, persistent data collection. The always-on trail of harvestable imprints, scored to …

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Electric Car

Explainer: U.S. dependence on China’s rare earth: Trade war vulnerability

(Reuters) - Rare earth elements are used in a wide range of consumer products, from iPhones to electric car motors, as well as military jet engines, satellites and lasers. Rising tensions between the United States and China have sparked concerns that Beijin…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Paris

What is at stake for USWNT heading into final group match vs. Sweden

LE HAVRE, France -- United States coach Jill Ellis and her players have heard variations of the same question again and again the past few weeks. Asked with varying degrees of diplomatic wording, the queries all revolved around a central tenet: Wouldn't it be…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Barack Obama

Obama’s Million Happy Faces During Family Dinner in France

Obama's Million Happy Faces During Family Dinner in France

bubmagJune 19, 2019

CCTV

114° – Swann SWDVK-844804V-UK 8-CHANNEL 1080P CCTV DVR Kit & 4 Cameras – £179.99 @ Screwfix

you_gotta_be_kidding19/06/2019 12:36I wouldn't bother, I spent £400 on a swann kit from Costco, the UI is I wouldn't bother, I spent £400 on a swann kit from Costco, the UI is awful, the app is dreadful and the service is atrocious.After going to a CCTV speci…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

Plastic Pollution

Greenpeace sounds alarm over plastic pollution in rivers

Greenpeace on Wednesday raised the alarm over microplastics in rivers after finding the pollutant in all the rivers it tested in Britain, calling it a "problem of enormous complexity". "We ignore this problem at our peril," warned David Santillo, senior scie…

bubmagJune 19, 2019

The eight biggest flops, fails, and blunders in E3 history

Apple expands repair service to all U.S. Best Buy stores

U.N. Report Finds ‘Credible Evidence’ to Investigate Saudi Crown Prince’s Role in Jamal Khashoggi’s Killing

MH17 suspects charged with murder over over 298 deaths will likely escape justice

Computational politics. Twitter, big data for sale or barter

Explainer: U.S. dependence on China’s rare earth: Trade war vulnerability

What is at stake for USWNT heading into final group match vs. Sweden

Obama’s Million Happy Faces During Family Dinner in France

114° – Swann SWDVK-844804V-UK 8-CHANNEL 1080P CCTV DVR Kit & 4 Cameras – £179.99 @ Screwfix

Greenpeace sounds alarm over plastic pollution in rivers

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