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Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Salvini seizes on sweeping election win to demand big concessions from Brussels

Pierre Moscovici, the EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, confirmed that a letter was on its way. I am going to exchange views with the Italian government on additional measures that might be required in order for them to be compliant with th…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

‘It Is Not a Forum for Coup-Mongering,’ Says Venezuelan Official, After U.S. Walks Out of Arms Control Conference

A U.S. official walked out of the United Nations-sponsored Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday after a representative from the elected government of Venezuela assumed the rotating chairmanship of the forum. Robert Wood, the American disarmament am…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Chinese Economy

Africa’s elephant poaching rates in decline, but iconic animal still under threat

Elephant poaching rates in Africa have started to decline after reaching a peak in 2011, an international team of scientists have concluded. However, the team say the continent's elephant population remains threatened without continuing action to tackle pove…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Elon Musk

MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy

MacKenzie Bezos, the world’s third-richest woman following her divorcefrom Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, has signed the Giving Pledge — a commitment that will see her giving away more than half her wealth to philanthropy or charitable causes, either duri…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Palestine

In Palestine and Beyond, Tear Gas Takes Environmental Toll

Bethlehem, West Bank—In a garden just off the main drag in Bethlehem, a bright-eyed Palestinian man named Muhammad Saleh talked to a visiting group about a crate full of empty tear gas canisters. The canisters, manufactured in Jamestown, Pennsylvania, at Com…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Eye on A.I.— Why Standards Are Critical to Improving Artificial Intelligence

Improving artificial intelligence to help prevent heart attacks doesnt just depend on innovation. It also hinges on creating standards, the wonky underpinnings of the technology agreed to by companies and government agencies. For example, the Consumer Techno…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Virtual Reality

Canva Has Acquired Pixabay and Pexels – Five Ways to Use Canva

Canva has been my go-to graphics creation tool for the last five or so years. It is incredibly easy to use and makes it possible for people like me who have no visual design skills to create good looking graphics. Pixabay has been my go-to source for public d…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Trade War

Chinese patriotism will ‘halve’ Apple’s sales in China, analysts warn (AAPL)

The US trade war on China will provoke Chinese citizens into turning away from Apple and buying domestic mobile brands instead, according to an analyst note from Citi on Monday. The analysts predicted that Apple's brand is already being damaged in China, a…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Seleção

Neymar not named Brazil captain for Copa America; PSG teammate Dani Alves to take the armband

On Monday, the Brazilian soccer federation announced that 36-year-old defender Dani Alves will wear the armband for this summer's Copa America, which Brazil is hosting. That means Neymar will no longer be captain of the Seleção, after head coach Tite declared…

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Recycling

Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic

In all likelihood, the enduring physical legacy of China's internet boom will not be the glass-and-steel office complexes or the fancy apartments for tech elites. It will be the plastic. Instead of building the buildings out glass and steel . . . build them …

bubmagMay 28, 2019

Italy’s Salvini seizes on sweeping election win to demand big concessions from Brussels

‘It Is Not a Forum for Coup-Mongering,’ Says Venezuelan Official, After U.S. Walks Out of Arms Control Conference

Africa’s elephant poaching rates in decline, but iconic animal still under threat

MacKenzie Bezos pledges to give away more than half her $37B fortune to charity and philanthropy

In Palestine and Beyond, Tear Gas Takes Environmental Toll

Eye on A.I.— Why Standards Are Critical to Improving Artificial Intelligence

Canva Has Acquired Pixabay and Pexels – Five Ways to Use Canva

Chinese patriotism will ‘halve’ Apple’s sales in China, analysts warn (AAPL)

Neymar not named Brazil captain for Copa America; PSG teammate Dani Alves to take the armband

Food Delivery Apps Are Drowning China in Plastic

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