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Bees

To help the bees, protect the prairie

California almond farmers who depend on commercial bee hives to pollinate their lucrative crops would benefit from increased efforts to protect essential bee foraging territory in northern prairie states, according a University of California, Berkeley, resear…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Xi Jinping

UPDATE 3-China’s President Xi to visit North Korea this week

* Visit to be first by a Chinese leader since Hu in 2005 * Xi's trip comes ahead of G20 summit in Japan * U.S.-N.Korea tensions have flared recently over denuclearisation (Adds comment from diplomatic source) By Tony Munroe and Huizhong Wu BEIJING, June 1…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Singapore

Quiet Start To Big Week

Overview: The global capital markets are off to a subdued start to what promises to be a busy week, featuring the FOMC, BOE, BOJ meetings, and the flash June PMIs. Investors also expect some signal whether Presidents Trump and Xi will meet at the G20 meeting …

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Xi Jinping

Are Rare Earths the Next Pawn in the US-China Trade War?

Since the Trump administration blocked sales by US companies to Chinese telecom giant Huawei last month, the world has waited for Beijing to retaliate. Previously, the trade conflict between the US and China centered on escalating tariffs. While tariffs make…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Google

Tame Your Picture Overload With These Google Photos Hacks

This story is part of a series on how we cleanfrom organizing your house to washing your tuchus. How many photos are on your phone right now? While you check, let me posit a guess: One zillion. Did I ballpark it? Thought so. The great modern convenience of …

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Google

Tricky Scam Plants Phishing Links in Your Google Calendar

At this point, you're probably keeping an eye out for possible phishing messages in your email. You know the drill: If you have any doubts, don't click links or download attachments. That's difficultenoughto adhere toin practice. Now, thanks to new findings f…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Venezuela

Florida fever for Trump and the Democrats — Winners and losers in the Miami debate draw — Just in time for presidential candidates: A guide to all things Florida – Politico

Good Monday morning. What is chocked full of gators, entering hurricane season, and back in the national political spotlight? Thats right. Floridas back, baby. And this time there are balloons. KICK OFF President Donald Trump will spend two days in the state…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Can Space Robots Save Humanity?

IntroductionArtificial intelligence (AI) is developing at an incredible rate and is rapidly catching up with human intelligence (HI). From the development of single-purpose narrow artificial intelligence (ANI) to artificial general intelligence (AGI), intelli…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Black Hole

Our galaxy’s central black hole is oddly quiet – now we may know why

Magnetic fields could be keeping the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way quiet NASA/SOFIA; Star field image: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope By Leah Crane The Milky Ways supermassive black hole is eerily quiet, rarely devouring anything, and now we may k…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

Greta Thunberg

Is it time to retire ‘climate change’ for ‘climate crisis’?

The phrase climate change doesnt cut it anymore, according to a growing group of media organizations. The reasoning? Climate change and global warming are too neutral, too worn-out, and too nice-sounding to describe the crisis facing the planet. Carbon dioxi…

bubmagJune 17, 2019

To help the bees, protect the prairie

UPDATE 3-China’s President Xi to visit North Korea this week

Quiet Start To Big Week

Are Rare Earths the Next Pawn in the US-China Trade War?

Tame Your Picture Overload With These Google Photos Hacks

Tricky Scam Plants Phishing Links in Your Google Calendar

Florida fever for Trump and the Democrats — Winners and losers in the Miami debate draw — Just in time for presidential candidates: A guide to all things Florida – Politico

Can Space Robots Save Humanity?

Our galaxy’s central black hole is oddly quiet – now we may know why

Is it time to retire ‘climate change’ for ‘climate crisis’?

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