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Privacy Concerns

Google says it has found religion on privacy

Sundar Pichai, the chief executive of Google, speaks at the Google I/O conference at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, Calif., May 7, 2019. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times) By: Daisuke Wakabayashi and Brian X Chen Google, the company that may know…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Brexit

Brexit Brief: May hopes to bring Brexit before parliament for the fourth time

U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May has told senior Conservative MPs she will try to break the political deadlock on Brexit for the forth time before the European elections on May 23, as she faces rising pressure to resign. After three big defeats in the House o…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Singapore

The only way is down: Subterranean survival warning…

Solutions to the biggest threats facing our planet lie underground, according to experts who insist climate change, overpopulation and food shortages can all be tackled by going subterranean. "We are coming to a point in our history in which we need to start…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Korean Peace Talks

NKorea fires again as US envoy visits…

North Korea welcomed a US envoy's visit to Seoul by firing at least one projectile for the second time in a week Thursday, the South's military said, as Pyongyang seeks to up the ante in deadlocked nuclear negotiations with Washington. The launch came after …

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Silk Road

China says ‘fed up’ with hearing US complaints on Belt and Road

China sought to tackle those concerns at a summit in Beijing last month. (Reuters) China is “fed up” with hearing complaints from the United States about its Belt and Road programme to re-create the old Silk Road, the government said on Thursday, following s…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Privacy Concerns

Google says it has found religion on privacy

We think privacy is for everyone not just for the few, Sundar Pichai, Googles chief executive, said on Tuesday at an annual conference for Google developers. Image Credit: Jim Wilson/The New York Times Google, the company that may know the most about our dig…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Unwelcome Refugees

Hell on Earth: Refugees Suffer as Libya’s Civil War Rages On

Not far from the Libyan border, in the yard of a house on the southern coast of Tunisia, Michelangelo Severgnini, an Italian man, bends over his smartphone and listens to the words of a man from South Sudan. The man on the phone is more than 200 kilometers a…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Blockchain

Deloitte’s tips on coming up with viable blockchain use cases

Today at TNW2019 in Amsterdam, consulting giant Deloitte shared some tips on how to use blockchain to streamline your business operations and find suitable use cases for the fledgling technology. In a workshop titled Beyond tech: blockchain strategy for comp…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Hiroshima

5 Weird Things You Didn’t Know About Chernobyl

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded more than three decades ago, in 1986, but you can watch it unfold on HBO's TV miniseries "Chernobyl," which premiered earlier this week. While most people know the general story — that due to human error, the nuclea…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Nuclear Disarmament

South Korea: North Korea fires unidentified projectile

People watch a television news program showing file footage of North Korea's projectile weapons at a railway station in Seoul, Southh Korea on Thursday. | Jung Yeon-je/Getty Images SEOUL, South Korea North Korea on Thursday fired at least one unidentified pr…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Google says it has found religion on privacy

Brexit Brief: May hopes to bring Brexit before parliament for the fourth time

The only way is down: Subterranean survival warning…

NKorea fires again as US envoy visits…

China says ‘fed up’ with hearing US complaints on Belt and Road

Google says it has found religion on privacy

Hell on Earth: Refugees Suffer as Libya’s Civil War Rages On

Deloitte’s tips on coming up with viable blockchain use cases

5 Weird Things You Didn’t Know About Chernobyl

South Korea: North Korea fires unidentified projectile

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