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Self-driving Vehicles

VW, Ford, Hyundai, and Uber are continuing their aggressive push into AVs (F, UBER, HYMTF)

Earlier this week, we reported on news that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) had entered a partnership with California-based autonomous tech startup Aurora Innovation to develop a fleet of self-driving vehicles. Since then, a number of prominent players in the…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Monsanto

Roundup is embroiled in cancer cases. Now its maker is putting $5 billion toward a new kind of weed killer – INFORUM

Bayer, the crop science and chemicals giant, said it would invest more than $5.6 billion in weedkiller research and trim its environmental impact - a move that follows three consecutive jury verdicts involving one of its top-selling herbicides.Bayer acquired …

bubmagJune 14, 2019

The Queen

Donald “No Collusion” Trump Is Down to Collude, and Colbert Is Stunned

Just when we think we’ve seen it all from Donald Trump, the man finds another way to defy logic and reason. In a recent interview with George Stephanopoulos, the president said he would accept information on a political opponent that came from a foreign power…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Global Warming

LED traffic sign in Texas displays witty warnings of global warming

In 1982, Japanese avant-garde filmmaker Toshio Matsumoto used video cut-up techniques to deconstruct a single residential building into a disorienting architectural puzzle. The short film is titled Shift (). Music by Yasuke Inagaki. From a 1996 interview with…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Fortnite

Check out the latest challenges for Fortnite’s Season 9!

Season 9 of Fortnite is officially upon us, which means brand new outfits, new locations on the map, and brand new challenges to boot. It's the fourth week of Season 9 now, and more challenges have dropped for players to complete in order to get their Battle …

bubmagJune 14, 2019

eSports

Did GameStop Need to Cut Its Dividend?

As buying video games has increasingly become an online experience, it's no secret that GameStop(NYSE:GME) has had a difficult time adjusting. However, investors are still shocked by how poorly GameStop is performing as the company's stock price crashed by as…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Venezuela

Thousands in Haiti renew protests, clash with police

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) Thousands of protesters demanding the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse clashed with police Thursday as some tried to storm barriers outside the National Palace while others sought shelter as heavy gunfire echoed in nearby stre…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Water Scarcity

Mass Civil Disobedience Is the Only Way to Tackle the Climate Emergency

At this point in human history we have three choices: to die, to survive or to thrive. From the wildfires in the U.S., coral die-back in the tropics and the deadly hurricanes battering small islands, the signs are crystal clear: climate devastation is alrea…

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Star Wars

This husky puppy sounds like Chewbacca

bubmagJune 14, 2019

Black Hole

Is This Invisible Magnetic Field Smothering Our Nearest Supermassive Black Hole?

The monster black hole at the center of the Milky Way is eerily quiet, and now astronomers think they know why. There are invisible magnetic field lines wrapped around it — researchers already suspected this. But new images show that those unseen lines form …

bubmagJune 14, 2019

VW, Ford, Hyundai, and Uber are continuing their aggressive push into AVs (F, UBER, HYMTF)

Roundup is embroiled in cancer cases. Now its maker is putting $5 billion toward a new kind of weed killer – INFORUM

Donald “No Collusion” Trump Is Down to Collude, and Colbert Is Stunned

LED traffic sign in Texas displays witty warnings of global warming

Check out the latest challenges for Fortnite’s Season 9!

Did GameStop Need to Cut Its Dividend?

Thousands in Haiti renew protests, clash with police

Mass Civil Disobedience Is the Only Way to Tackle the Climate Emergency

This husky puppy sounds like Chewbacca

Is This Invisible Magnetic Field Smothering Our Nearest Supermassive Black Hole?

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