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Donald Trump

Why the U.S.-China Trade War Could Be Long and Painful: No Off-Ramps

And President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China could meet at the G20 summit in late June in Osaka, Japan, which would be an opportunity for de-escalation at the highest levels. But open lines of communication and time to work wont by themselves solve …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Yaroslavl resident who photographed and shared anti-Putin graffiti gets hit with 30,000-ruble fine

A Yaroslavl court fined Kirill Poputnikov 30,000 rubles ($461.55) under a 2019 law that bans insulting the government online, 76.ru reported. Poputnikov posted a photograph on Facebook that showed graffiti whose message can be translated as Putin is a fag on …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Palestine

Rashida Tlaib defends Holocaust comments on Seth Meyers’ show in face of ‘racist idiots’

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., went on NBC's "Late Night with Seth Meyers" on Monday night to defend and explain comments she made about the Holocaust and the human rights situation in the Palestinian territories. She said Republican comment…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Moravec‘s Paradox

MICROSOFT makes world’s first AI-generated whisky…

MICROSOFT has helped distil the first ever whisky that has been developed by artificial intelligence. The tech giant, which is usually associated with more sober products, teamed up with a Swedish whisky distillery to find the perfect recipe. Robot grade w…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Times Square

Watch the OnePlus 7 event live here

They are almost here the new OnePlus phones will be unveiled in New York with satellite events around the world. And yes, phones plural. This year the company is going with a two-tier strategy to give it more flexibility. The OnePlus 7 Pro will compete w…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Monsanto

US couple awarded US$2 billion in Roundup weed killer cancer case – Jamaica Gleaner

A United States (US) court has ordered the parent company for the world-renowned weed killer, Roundup, to pay US$2 billion in damages to a couple who claimed that their non-Hodgkins lymphoma (NHL) was caused by decades of using the product. The award to Albe…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Bees

Turning off growth to make flowers grow

The beautiful colors and smells of flowers serve a much greater purpose than just decoration. Flowers contain the plant's reproductive organs, and those same colors and smells that make a room beautiful also attract bees and other animals for pollination. Flo…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Blockchain

Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound

Bitcoin is now trading at around $8,130, up a whopping 60.84 percent over the past month, with the price surging $3,086.14 over the period. The cryptocurrency’s meteoric rise is reminiscent of its rocketing growth in the latter half of 2017, when prices reac…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

The Curious Case of the 69-year-old Who Tried to Drop His Legal Age to 49

In the fall of 2018 a Dutch man named Emile Ratelband petitioned a court to change the year on his birth certificate to 1969 rather than the true year, 1949. “This is American thinking,” Ratelband said, to justify his intention. “Why can’t I change my age if …

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Drones

Saudia Arabia Says Drones Attacked Its Oil Pipelines

(DUBAI, United Arab Emirates) — Saudi Arabia said drones attacked one of its oil pipelines as other assaults targeted energy infrastructure elsewhere in the kingdom on Tuesday, shortly after Yemen’s rebels claimed a coordinated drone attack on the Sunni power…

bubmagMay 14, 2019

Why the U.S.-China Trade War Could Be Long and Painful: No Off-Ramps

Yaroslavl resident who photographed and shared anti-Putin graffiti gets hit with 30,000-ruble fine

Rashida Tlaib defends Holocaust comments on Seth Meyers’ show in face of ‘racist idiots’

MICROSOFT makes world’s first AI-generated whisky…

Watch the OnePlus 7 event live here

US couple awarded US$2 billion in Roundup weed killer cancer case – Jamaica Gleaner

Turning off growth to make flowers grow

Bitcoin has surged above $8,000 and theories around why abound

The Curious Case of the 69-year-old Who Tried to Drop His Legal Age to 49

Saudia Arabia Says Drones Attacked Its Oil Pipelines

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