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Brexit

Change UK’s Jan Rostowski: How Poland’s former deputy prime minister is planning to stop Brexit

LONDON — Jan Rostowski has witnessed his fair share of decisive historical moments. The politician was born and raised in the UK but moved to his parents' native Poland to help steer the country through a dramatic shift in its political landscape. He serve…

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Old-Age Poverty

Aging research and population ethics

This is the second of a series of posts in which I'm trying to build a framework to evaluate aging research. Previous post: A general framework for evaluating aging research. Part 1: reasoning with Longevity Escape Velocity. The first part of this post will …

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Silk Road

China puts gentler face on Belt and Road, hits back at critics

Chinese President Xi Jinping raises his glass and proposes a toast at the end of his speech during the welcome banquet, after the welcome ceremony of leaders attending the Belt and Road Forum at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, April 26, 2019. …

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Electric Car

Putting some Smarts into an Electric Car Charger

Many electric cars feature a timer capability that allows the owner to set which hours they want the vehicle to start pulling a charge. This lets the thrifty EV owner take advantage of the fact that the cost of electricity generally goes down late at night wh…

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Jamal Khashoggi

Trump Calls FBI ‘Scum,’ Takes Credit For ‘Sick’ Plan In Off-The-Walls Rally

President Donald Trump tore down former FBI and Justice Department officials, expressed unabashed support for Saudi Arabia and took credit for plans to send immigrants into sanctuary cities in an unrestrained rally in Wisconsin on Saturday night. The nearly …

bubmagApril 28, 2019

AR-15

At least one dead, three wounded in California synagogue shooting that officials call a hate crime – The Globe and Mail

People hug next to police tape across the street from the Chabad of Poway Synagogue after a shooting on April 27, 2019 in Poway, California. SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP/Getty Images A gunman opened fire inside a Southern California synagogue Saturday, killing one p…

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Yellow Vests

Unions, leftwing parties, join ‘yellow vests’ march in Paris…

Paris (AFP) - Thousands of trade unionists and left wing activists joined "yellow vest" protesters in Paris Saturday in rejecting French President Emmanuel Macron's proposed tax cuts as too little too late. The march in the capital, organised by the militant…

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence Takes Over Restaurant Reservations

Share to facebook Share to twitter Share to linkedin Artificial intelligence (AI) is infiltrating multiple areas of the restaurant industry, including reservations and ordering. For example, Allset, a restaurant reservation and pre-ordering app, relies on …

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Chinese government technology to track what Australians are doing on their phones

Chinese inspired technology will soon be used to track what Australians are browsing on their phone, where they're going and if they're involved in criminal behaviour. This year, Darwin council will install the new 'Smart technology', which uses facial reco…

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Venezuela

Guaido makes new appeal to Venezuela army ahead of Mayday protests…

Caracas (AFP) - Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido used his latest mass rally on Saturday to reiterate an appeal to the army to end its support for Nicolas Maduro's regime, and announced massive Mayday protests to oust the embattled president. Guaido …

bubmagApril 28, 2019

Change UK’s Jan Rostowski: How Poland’s former deputy prime minister is planning to stop Brexit

Aging research and population ethics

China puts gentler face on Belt and Road, hits back at critics

Putting some Smarts into an Electric Car Charger

Trump Calls FBI ‘Scum,’ Takes Credit For ‘Sick’ Plan In Off-The-Walls Rally

At least one dead, three wounded in California synagogue shooting that officials call a hate crime – The Globe and Mail

Unions, leftwing parties, join ‘yellow vests’ march in Paris…

Artificial Intelligence Takes Over Restaurant Reservations

Guaido makes new appeal to Venezuela army ahead of Mayday protests…

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