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Big Data

Sight Machine, which helps manufacturers analyze big data, raises $29.4M Series C led by LS Group (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Star Wars

Block Spoilers for Avengers, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars With These Tools

Its a tough week to be a geek, unless you like watching characters youve loved for years, if not decades, bite the big one. Be sure to bring your Mjölnir-sized Kleenex box to Avengers: Endgame this week (especially if you, like me, have Thanos as your #1. Tho…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Singapore

3 Good Surprises From Twitter, Hasbro, and P&G

Like spring is doing outside, earnings season is heating up on Wall Street, and green shoots of growth abound in both cases. For example, Twitter's (NYSE:TWTR) earnings were up 9% year over year in Q1, and its daily user count grew for the first time in a yea…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Anti-Putin Protests

Kremlin Critic Bankrolls Putin Challenge with $3 Million Bitcoin Haul

By CCN: Alexei Navalny, who attempted to run for president against Vladimir Putin and continues to be a viable Putin opponent, has raised over $3 million since he began taking Bitcoin donations in 2016. Just yesterday he received close to $10,000. The crypto…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Hrant Dink

Erdogan Offers Condolences to Descendants of Armenians Killed in Ottoman Empire

Armenia and Turkey have strained relations due to their different views on WWI history. Armenia says that around 1.2 million of its people were killed or starved to death by the Ottoman Empire during the war. Turkey has repeatedly denied accusations, claiming…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Apple reports first drop in the number of self-driving cars on the road in California

Throughout the course of 2018, Apple’s filings with the California DMV showed a steady increase in the number of self-driving cars it had on the road. This month, however, Apple has reported its first ever drop in autonomous cars. As first noted by macReport…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Christianity

Wednesday assorted links

2. Douthat obviously has a very Catholic-centered view of the world. And as obviously, he could not have these suspicions of non-Catholic Americans without his devotion to that faith. I'm not sure this essay travels well outside of that bubble. There are a g…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Putin

What’s at stake in the meeting with Putin and Kim Jong Un

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bubmagApril 24, 2019

Hrant Dink

France Holds First ‘Armenia Genocide’ Remembrance Day

PARIS France held its first "national day of commemoration of the Armenian genocide" on Wednesday, provoking an angry reaction from Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Troops from the Ottoman Empire which preceded modern-day Turkey were responsible for mas…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Solar Storm

Microfiction

Please support Super Punch by following the links and buying from Amazon and eBay, and please assume that any product I review was sent to me for that purpose. This site also uses tracking cookies.Logo by Adam Koford. Download the Super Punch Chimera paper t…

bubmagApril 24, 2019

Sight Machine, which helps manufacturers analyze big data, raises $29.4M Series C led by LS Group (Mike Wheatley/SiliconANGLE)

Block Spoilers for Avengers, Game of Thrones, and Star Wars With These Tools

3 Good Surprises From Twitter, Hasbro, and P&G

Kremlin Critic Bankrolls Putin Challenge with $3 Million Bitcoin Haul

Erdogan Offers Condolences to Descendants of Armenians Killed in Ottoman Empire

Apple reports first drop in the number of self-driving cars on the road in California

Wednesday assorted links

What’s at stake in the meeting with Putin and Kim Jong Un

France Holds First ‘Armenia Genocide’ Remembrance Day

Microfiction

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