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Matteo Salvini

Factbox: EU vote – the domestic fall-out across Europe

(Reuters) - European Parliament elections not only determine the make-up of the next EU assembly and help decide who ends up running top European institutions but can also play back into the national politics of the bloc's 28 member states. Here is a run-dow…

bubmagMay 27, 2019

Greta Thunberg

RISE OF THE GREENS

Berlin (AFP) - With double-digit scores across Europe's biggest countries including a stunning 20 percent in Germany, the Greens bagged record gains in European elections on Sunday with younger voters leading calls for action to halt global warming. The envi…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s ruling League tops EU vote as 5-Star loses ground: exit polls

ROME (Reuters) - The far-right League emerged as Italy’s largest party in Sunday’s European parliamentary election, overtaking its coalition partner the 5-Star Movement, which lost a third of its voters in a year, exit polls said. If confirmed, such a resul…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Astroturfing

Wll greed or propaganda win the arms race in journalism?

[This is just my private journal CC of an "Ask Slashdot" submission to Slashdot. Feel free to comment, but you might want to CC over to the submission at https://slashdot.org/submission/9738082/ask-slashdot-will-greed-or-propaganda-win-the-arms-race-in-journa??? Read More

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Astroturfing

Ask Slashdot: Will greed or propaganda win the arms race in journalism?

Don't panic, Slashdot of the "News for nerds, stuff that matters!" slogan. If it involves journalism, Slashdot has already lost the race! Y'all readers and nerds can relax knowing that Slashdot will keep right on going wherever it is heading... Or maybe I s…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Feudalism

Bhupender Yadav: ‘Any caste cannot remain a permanent vote bank of one particular party’

With Bhupendra Yadav, National General Secretary in-charge for Bihar and Gujarat, BJP. What is the message of this mandate in favour of the NDA in Bihar and the BJP in Gujarat? The BJP has done the politics of good governance in Gujarat from the time when N…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Virtual Reality

Virtual Reality is Reality

The value of VR for research is indisputable from enabling us to study more naturalistic behaviour, to increasing experimental control, to giving us new forms of therapies for reducing phobias, or even implicit biases (Bedder et al., 2019). Its clear; VR is …

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Animal Protection

Are these dolphins happy living in a marine animal park? An expert plans to find out

Posted May 27, 2019 06:32:45 The question of whether dolphins can be happy living in captivity at a marine animal park is about to be tested on the New South Wales mid-north coast. A world-leading scientist is in Coffs Harbour for an Australian-first stud…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Star Wars

This Star Wars X-Wing Game Was Made By A Fan In Dreams

Every week it seems Dreams creators are building more and more impressive levels and mini-games. The latest fan creation that has caught my attention is a Star Wars space-combat game where you get to control an X-Wing Starfighter and fight the Empire. As sho…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Xi Jinping

The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn’t supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans’ data — but it did

In January 2018, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd -- already an $93 million investor in Grindr -- bought out the company for a further $152m. Despite assurances to the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States that the company would not access Americans'…

bubmagMay 26, 2019

Factbox: EU vote – the domestic fall-out across Europe

RISE OF THE GREENS

Italy’s ruling League tops EU vote as 5-Star loses ground: exit polls

Wll greed or propaganda win the arms race in journalism?

Ask Slashdot: Will greed or propaganda win the arms race in journalism?

Bhupender Yadav: ‘Any caste cannot remain a permanent vote bank of one particular party’

Virtual Reality is Reality

Are these dolphins happy living in a marine animal park? An expert plans to find out

This Star Wars X-Wing Game Was Made By A Fan In Dreams

The Chinese company that bought Grindr wasn’t supposed to let Chinese engineers access Americans’ data — but it did

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