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Amazon is slowly but surely becoming one of the most influential tech companies in the world. In fact, it has probably become one of the most influential companies of all time. The online retail giant has been trying to invest heavily into automation and robotics technology in the past few…
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It’s known as the “Cape of Storms” for the dreaded weather systems that roll in from the Atlantic Ocean, tormenting sailors, flooding fields, and sending torrents of water gushing down the slopes of the city’s famous mountains. But those conditions have not been seen for a long…
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The revolt against Maduro’s regime is entering its fourth week (on Feb 10, 2019), with the Venezuelan strongman showing no sign of relinquishing power despite a startling and largely unforeseen challenge from a previously obscure opposition leader called Juan Guaidó. Donald…
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  If there is one thing the Spain vs Catalonia conflict reminds us of, it has got to be Turkey. And that is a much bigger problem for the EU than it realizes. Brussels was insisting in 2017 that this is an internal, domestic, Spanish issue, even if the ex-Catalan president at that time, Puidgemont, along with four members of his…
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Read the second part of the article Using “Quality Control” as a Way to Skirt Federal Laws Regarding Experiments on Prisoners Anxiety over being charged with violation of Federal laws regarding experiments on prisoners arose again when the CIA…
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  Sir David Attenborough, an English veteran broadcaster and naturalist who recently made a documentary on plastic and its harmful effects on the environment, said that the Earth’s oceans are slowly becoming a toxic depository due to the evil deeds of the planet’s dwellers. Describing one scene from the…
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  Ancient Origins A strange chalice made its way into the British Museum’s collection in the 1950s. It is a 1,600-year-old jade green Roman artifact called the Lycurgus Cup. The image on the chalice is an iconic scene with King Lycurgus of Thrace, but the element that sets this cup apart is the effect…
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The internet surrounds us. It mediates modern life, like a giant, unseen blob that engulfs the modern world. There is no escape, and, as Larry Page and Sergey Brin so astutely understood when they launched Google in 1998, everything that people do online leaves a trail of data. If saved and…
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  In 2017 German Chancellor Angela Merkel testified on the 2015 espionage scandal involving Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND). However, according to the member of the German FDP party Jimmy Schulz, the German government failed to learn its lesson and make any conclusions from the spying scandal. The…
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Gender-selective abortions and boys’ better nutrition and medical care blamed for gender disparity More than 63 million women are “missing” statistically across India, and more than 21 million girls are unwanted by their families, government officials say.The skewed ratio of men to…
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