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Chinese Expansionism

What should a left foreign policy look like? An Elizabeth Warren adviser offers his vision.

“We’re at a moment where there’s a lot of flux in how people are thinking about foreign policy.” The Democratic Party is in the midst of an ideological crisis. Key party figures are debating huge new domestic policy ideas, like the Green New Deal and Medicare…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Self-driving Vehicles

Apple self-driving car could use ‘confidence’ algorithm to speed up sensor processing & decision-making

Self-driving vehicles in Apple's "Project Titan" could reduce the amount of processing required to recognize objects and to understand the layout of the road ahead, using a "confidence" algorithm that can allow a car's computer to get just enough data from se…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Scotland

New open source software eases the pain of multiple UI designs

The time-consuming and labour-intensive task of designing multiple user interfaces for different screen sizes and orientations could become a thing of the past thanks to open-source software that uses a new paradigm to speed up or even automate the process.Th…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

China's Strategy

The Morning Rundown: Today’s top headlines

Breaking News Emails Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE May 7, 2019, 11:55 AM UTC Good morning, NBC News readers. The first Monday in May has become synonymous with a fash…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Water Pollution

Opinion: Forests instead of cathedrals

Notre Dame should not be rebuilt, argue Guillaume Habert and Alice Hertzog. In times of climate change and in light of the current religious landscape its reconstruction is no longer a priority. As Notre Dame burnt last month, it was reported that the air hu…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

The Queen

Prince William and Kate Middleton took 8 hours to acknowledge the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son on social media

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry used their official Instagram page to announce the birth of their son on Monday. Congratulatory messages came flooding in to the post, which has now received 2.6 million comments. Michelle Obama, Theresa May, and Markle's …

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Palestine

Qatar allocates $480 mn in aid to Palestinians

Doha (AFP) - Qatar said Tuesday it had allocated $480 million in aid to the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority to support education and health services and provide urgent humanitarian relief. The authority led by president Mahmud Abbas has been hit by the c…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Trade War

Explainer: China changes laws in trade war with U.S., enforcement a concern

(Reuters) - China has been changing laws to address U.S. concerns about fair treatment of foreign companies, but with some vague wording and persistent concerns about enforcement, it is unclear if this will leave Washington satisfied. In a sharp deteriorati…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Biological Warfare

The Current Ebola Epidemic in Eastern Congo. Humanitarian Crisis

With over a billion dollars pledged so far to rebuild Notre Dame de Paris, another monument to what Western civilization has accomplished enacts a daily tragedy before the forests and villagers trying to stay alive in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. St…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

Tayyip Erdogan

‘We Will Win Again,’ Opposition Vows in Istanbul Election Do-Over

After an initial recount of some contested districts in the city, election officials certified Mr. Imamoglu as the winner, and he entered office in April. But in a stunning reversal, the High Election Council ruled, 7 to 4, on Monday in favor of the governin…

bubmagMay 7, 2019

What should a left foreign policy look like? An Elizabeth Warren adviser offers his vision.

Apple self-driving car could use ‘confidence’ algorithm to speed up sensor processing & decision-making

New open source software eases the pain of multiple UI designs

The Morning Rundown: Today’s top headlines

Opinion: Forests instead of cathedrals

Prince William and Kate Middleton took 8 hours to acknowledge the birth of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s son on social media

Qatar allocates $480 mn in aid to Palestinians

Explainer: China changes laws in trade war with U.S., enforcement a concern

The Current Ebola Epidemic in Eastern Congo. Humanitarian Crisis

‘We Will Win Again,’ Opposition Vows in Istanbul Election Do-Over

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