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Skateboard

Popularity of skateboarding boosts business for Skate Shops – WMBF

MYRTLE BEACH, SC (WMBF) - With skateboarding making its debut at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo the popularity of the sport could not be higher. Just one year after the Matt Hughes Skate Park underwent a massive renovation, the same can be said for the skateboar…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Elon Musk

These idiots shot a porno in an Autopilot-enabled Tesla and Elon Musk deserves some blame

Taylor Jackson is a pioneer, of sorts. The adult actress, to our knowledge, is the first to shoot a pornographic scene in a moving vehicle without a human driver. And much like other pioneers her actions will inspire some while leading others to reenact an ev…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

VR

What’s new in AR / VR at Google I/O 2019

For the last several years, Google has saved a special part of its starting keynote at I/O for VR and AR. It started with Google casually handing out Cardboard to developers as the result of a 20% project, and grew tremendously from there. Now, Google is a fu…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Palestine

Trump Abandoned a Nuclear Deal a Year Ago. The U.S. and Iran Are Now on a Collision Course

The White House’s long-running dispute with Iran is approaching a perilous crossroads one year after President Donald Trump walked away from the multilateral nuclear deal. The Administration’s increasing pressure on Tehran has resulted in an unpredictable an…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Barack Obama

Trump’s tweet about Workhorse sent its stock soaring on news the electric-truck company is in talks to buy a GM assembly plant in Ohio (WKHS)

The electric-truck company Workhorse is talking to General Motors about buying its assembly plant in Lordstown, Ohio. President Donald Trump apparently preempted an official announcement about the deal on Wednesday, after a conversation with GM CEO Mary Ba…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

AR-15

Bartender arrested for selling alcohol to gunman before shooting spree – VT

In September 2017, Spencer Hight visited a bar in Plano, Texas, where he consumed a large amount of alcohol. From this bar, he drove to the home of his estranged wife, who was holding a viewing party for a football game with several others. He entered the hou…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Hiroshima

A Forgotten Photographer: Stunning Fashion Photography by William Helburn in the 1950s and 1960s

William (Bill) Helburn (b. 1924) is an American fashion photographer, and contemporary of Richard Avedon, Irving Penn, Francesco Scavullo, and Lillian Bassman. He was at the top of his profession from the early 1950s through the 1960s, with bylined covers and…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Bubble

Review: American Standard 735125-400.020 Toilet Tank Lid

Functional yet curiously suspect The lid on my American Standard Cadet one-piece compact toilet cracked, necessitating its replacement. Fortunately, the exact lid I needed, the American Standard 735125-400.020, was available on Amazon Prime. I'd be back in a…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

NATO

Huawei exec vows to fight extradition to US in Canada court

Vancouver (AFP) - A top Chinese telecom executive whose arrest in Canada on a US warrant triggered a bitter diplomatic row vowed Wednesday to vigorously fight extradition to the US. Meng Wanzhou, 47, who faces charges related to Iran sanctions violations, wa…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Elon says Tesla will field 1M fully autonomous robo-taxis by 2020 – AI experts call BS

Elon Musk, the PT Barnum of tech, is currently getting a ration of ridicule from some of the worlds foremost leading AI experts over his ridiculous claim that Tesla will field a million fully autonomous cars by 2020. If there are a million Tesla robo-taxis f…

bubmagMay 9, 2019

Popularity of skateboarding boosts business for Skate Shops – WMBF

These idiots shot a porno in an Autopilot-enabled Tesla and Elon Musk deserves some blame

What’s new in AR / VR at Google I/O 2019

Trump Abandoned a Nuclear Deal a Year Ago. The U.S. and Iran Are Now on a Collision Course

Trump’s tweet about Workhorse sent its stock soaring on news the electric-truck company is in talks to buy a GM assembly plant in Ohio (WKHS)

Bartender arrested for selling alcohol to gunman before shooting spree – VT

A Forgotten Photographer: Stunning Fashion Photography by William Helburn in the 1950s and 1960s

Review: American Standard 735125-400.020 Toilet Tank Lid

Huawei exec vows to fight extradition to US in Canada court

Elon says Tesla will field 1M fully autonomous robo-taxis by 2020 – AI experts call BS

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