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Animal Protection

Despite regulations, illegal pet trade in India remains a haven for undocumented wealth, criminal activity, funding terrorism

Markets in India are filled with pet stores that cram hundreds of birds into cages, and puppies and kittens into spaces no larger than shoe boxes. Tanks, too, are overcrowded with fish that stew in their own faecal matter till they are rescued by a purchaser …

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Now Facebook is using robots to advance its work in artificial intelligence

Facebook says it’s using robots to help advance its work in artificial intelligence. The work is similar to the (mildly creepy) autonomous robot work going on at Boston Dynamics, but different in that Facebook is opening up its research to everyone in the fie…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

Now Facebook is using robots to advance its work in artificial intelligence

Facebook says it’s using robots to help advance its work in artificial intelligence. The work is similar to the (mildly creepy) autonomous robot work going on at Boston Dynamics, but different in that Facebook is opening up its research to everyone in the fie…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Holocaust

Qatari-funded Al Jazeera Arabic channel fires journalists over ‘Holocaust denial’ video

While Al Jazeeras English version attempts to appeal to audiences with Western sensitbilities, its Arabic channel regularly hosts speakers such as Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a Muslim Brotherhood preacher known for his virulent anti-American and anti-Semitic di…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Yellow Vests

WATCH: ‘France Does Not Belong to the French!’ – Hundreds of Illegal Migrants Occupy French Airport

France does not belong to the French! Everyone has a right to be here! yelled one of the migrants, organised by the pro-migration La Chapelle Debout group, through a loudspeaker, as they pressed for their presence in the country to be regularised. Calling th…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Blockchain

Moonday Mornings: Banks pour $50M into blockchain, Bitcoin gets on CBS’ 60 Minutes

Another weekend, another batch of stories you mightve missed. Or as we like to put it: welcome back to another edition of Moonday Mornings, Hard Forks wrap-up of the weekends top cryptocurrency and blockchain stories. So, without further ado, lets get into i…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Astroturfing

Andrew Yang’s Very Big Idea – POLITICO Magazine – Politico

Nancy Scola is a senior technology reporter for POLITICO Pro. DES MOINES, Iowa Andrew Yang bounces from leg to leg on the stage at Franklin Junior High School, cloaked in his campaign-trail uniform of blue jacket and navy MATH cap, warning the crowd about th…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Christianity

Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston

The church I grew up in was so big we called it the Repentagon. It was not a single structure but a thirty-four-million-dollar campus, built in the nineteen-eighties and spread across forty-two acres in a leafy, white neighborhood ten miles west of downtown H…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Orangutan

Valcora gives customers the chance to help save the world

Swiss aviation fuel supplier Valcora is offering business jet operators the chance to help save endangered species and contribute to reforestation efforts through a new wildlife conservation initiative announced at the show. The company has handpicked two r…

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Matteo Salvini

Italy’s Salvini says China cannot be in control of sensitive data

MILAN (Reuters) - Italians must retain control of sensitive data, such as their personal finances or health conditions, and prevent an undemocratic country like China from gaining access, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini said on Monday. Salvini …

bubmagMay 20, 2019

Despite regulations, illegal pet trade in India remains a haven for undocumented wealth, criminal activity, funding terrorism

Now Facebook is using robots to advance its work in artificial intelligence

Now Facebook is using robots to advance its work in artificial intelligence

Qatari-funded Al Jazeera Arabic channel fires journalists over ‘Holocaust denial’ video

WATCH: ‘France Does Not Belong to the French!’ – Hundreds of Illegal Migrants Occupy French Airport

Moonday Mornings: Banks pour $50M into blockchain, Bitcoin gets on CBS’ 60 Minutes

Andrew Yang’s Very Big Idea – POLITICO Magazine – Politico

Losing Religion and Finding Ecstasy in Houston

Valcora gives customers the chance to help save the world

Italy’s Salvini says China cannot be in control of sensitive data

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