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Alibaba

Bill Gates touts €100 million venture fund for Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe

One of the companies in Breakthrough Energy Ventures portfolio is Swedens Baseload Capital, which invests in geothermal facilities including Varmaorka in Iceland. (Photo Courtesy of Baseload Capital) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is celebrating the officia…

bubmagMay 29, 2019

New York City

Supreme Court, Tornadoes, Serena Williams: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

10. And finally, the subway can be stranger than fiction. Our New York City transit reporter took a break from chronicling tales of subway hell to appreciate one of the best parts about riding the subway: the weird and beautiful things riders regularly stumb…

bubmagMay 29, 2019

Electric Scooter

BMW’s Next Vehicle Is a Stylish, Street-Legal Electric Scooter

BMW is adding a new member to its growing family of cars, SUVs and motorcyclesbut you wont need any keys for it. This September, the company will launch the BMW E-Scooter, the automaker has announced. Designed in collaboration with scooter company Micro, BMW…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Exoskeleton

Woman Endures 6 Brain Surgeries While Studying to Become Doctor: ‘Life Can Be Beautiful Again’

Not many college students have to balance books with brain surgeries, but Claudia Martinez has done both while completing medical school. As an undergraduate, the 28-year-old University of Houston student was diagnosed with a rare condition called a Chiari …

bubmagMay 28, 2019

NASDAQ

Treasury Bond Prices Jump While Stock Prices Fall

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Investors continue to flock to the safety of U.S. Treasury bonds as signs of a slumping U.S. economy accumulate. Stock prices were down again today with the Dow and S&P 500 indexes falling 0…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Climate Change

The Trump admin really, really doesn’t want you to see this climate science

The same scientific agencies that rocketed Neil Armstrong to the moon and forecast the landfall of hurricanes that pummel the U.S. coast also expect dramatic changes to Earth's climate this century, should humanity continue to heat the planet. But the Trump…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Korean War

From Total Industrial to Limited War: An Outtake from “Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century 1870-2016”

Total Industrial War A total industrial war sees a state taking control of an economy and society via bureaucracy, mobilizing most young and some old men into its armed forces, and then hurling as much as it can of men, metal, and nitrogen-based explosives at…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Yellow Vests

Green politics comes surging into the mainstream in EU elections

Amid the many uncertainties that cloud the future of the fragmented new European Parliament, one thing is clear: The Greens will enjoy unprecedented leverage to put the planets climate front and center on the political scene. Their unexpected success in week…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Korean War

Dad-Daughter Duo Recreated His Adorable Graduation Photo on Her Special Day ’18 Years Later’

With graduation season in full swing, students everywhere are sharing photos of their milestone moments, but one father-daughter duo’s celebratory shots are making their way through social media again thanks to an internet-breaking throwback photo! Tori Roac…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Google

Google rolls out dining and translation filters to Lens

Google Lens users on iOS and ARCore-compatible Android phones are getting some added utility when it comes to ordering at restaurants or translating foreign languages on-the-go. The functionality was announced earlier this month at Google I/O. Users can acce…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Bill Gates touts €100 million venture fund for Breakthrough Energy Ventures Europe

Supreme Court, Tornadoes, Serena Williams: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing

BMW’s Next Vehicle Is a Stylish, Street-Legal Electric Scooter

Woman Endures 6 Brain Surgeries While Studying to Become Doctor: ‘Life Can Be Beautiful Again’

Treasury Bond Prices Jump While Stock Prices Fall

The Trump admin really, really doesn’t want you to see this climate science

From Total Industrial to Limited War: An Outtake from “Slouching Towards Utopia?: An Economic History of the Long Twentieth Century 1870-2016”

Green politics comes surging into the mainstream in EU elections

Dad-Daughter Duo Recreated His Adorable Graduation Photo on Her Special Day ’18 Years Later’

Google rolls out dining and translation filters to Lens

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