The White House on Tuesday rejected criticism from some Democrats that President Biden hasn't focused his bully pulpit enough on voting rights ahead of a critical Senate vote on elections legislation."I would suggest ... those words are a...
James Robins, Newlines
Turkey's politics is beset by selective memory and a paradoxical sense of victimhood and superiority that has allowed its leaders and usurpers to position themselves as guardians of an embattled realm
John McLaughlin, Ozy
Now that the summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin is over, where does it leave U.S.-Russian relations? In a much better place in my view, and in a form that allows us to measure progress, or lack of it. During the last four years the relationship sunk to the lowest, and weirdest, level in decades. Yes, tensions with Putin have been on the rise since 2008, beginning with Russia's intervention in Georgia. Any normal discourse was simply frozen... Читать дальше...
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
The United States is withdrawing air defense capabilities from several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait and Jordan, with most of the withdrawals being from Saudi Arabia. According to the report, the withdrawal will include Patriot missiles, some fighter aircraft and other unspecified weapons. Saudi Arabia was informed on June 2, with the withdrawals already beginning and to be completed this summer.
GE Power India Limited is one of the leading players in the power generation equipment market.
The European Union's move on Tuesday to investigate Google over alleged antitrust behavior in the digital ad tech sector is the bloc's latest crackdown on U.S. tech giants. Here's a look at enforcement actions taken by the EU's competition commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, in recent years, as well as actions by U.S. antitrust regulators and states.
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Twitter is opening up applications for "Super Follows" and "Ticketed Spaces," as it looks for the first group of users to test the monetization features.
Stay right up to date with Goal's live commentary coverage of the final Group D matches in Euro 2020
Futuristic fabrics and breezy watercolours are duking it out for the title of summer’s ultimate swimwear trend.
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When you imagine a clean energy future, what does it look like? For most people, the idea conjures images of spinning fields of wind turbines and massive solar farms. But while wind and solar are excellent and increasingly efficient and affordable forms of clean energy production, they have their limitations. The first and most commonly known drawback to wind and solar is that these forms of energy production are variable, which is to say that they can’t produce power inconsistent quantities around the block. Читать дальше...
LUO studio recently conceived a distinctive bookstore in the underground space of a shopping mall in Beijing.
Due to different area requirements of various tenants that could occupy the space in the future, the space of the large commercial building was divided unevenly, and the walls and columns were separated and arranged disorderly. The mall hoped to maximize the potential of the underground space, where equipment rooms were set. The equipment space was dominated by intricately mounted and dense pipelines... Читать дальше...
Since the launch of the Chromecast with Google TV back in October, it’s been downright bizarre that Stadia, Google’s premier game streaming service, was not available on the company’s newest streaming hardware. Instead, to (officially) play on TV, players were forced to purchase a Chromecast Ultra and Stadia Controller.
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Rodriguez, Ioka’s manadatory challenger, currently rides a 15-fight winning streak
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The serial entrepreneur who sold Kayak for $1.8 billion reveals how he's planning to reshape the podcast industry.
Jim Gaffigan knows a few things about being a dad. The actor and comedian is famously the dad of five kids—Jack, Marre, Katie, and budding YouTube stars Michael and Patrick—and was was able to tap into his parenting skills for his recent role as aloof but loving dad Lorenzo in the new Disney/Pixar movie Luca. In the…
Читать дальше...Volkswagen AG is undergoing the world’s largest industrial overhaul for the electric-vehicle age, plotting half a dozen battery plants just in Europe and retooling assembly lines around the globe. And yet, its CEO sees autonomous-driving technology bringing about an even bigger shift.
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The Yankees are almost as inconsistent as the Royals!
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While it’s great that Juneteenth is finally receiving national recognition, it comes with the unfortunate downside of white people doing the absolute, goddamn most. Take for instance an Ikea in Atlanta that introduced a special Juneteenth menu that just screams “I had one Black friend...in high school...during…
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A group of federal contractors want to see the governmentwide acquisition contract, or GWAC, program process improved for innovative and non-traditional vendors.
Meriel Hahn, Peter Harris
North Korea,
A better and more humane regime in North Korea is something to wish for. State collapse is not.
Totalitarian regimes like North Korea are stable until they are not. Once they are gone, their passing can seem predictable and even overdetermined. As the political scientist Mark Beissinger once wrote of the Soviet Union’s demise: “The once unthinkable and impossible had become the conventional and inevitable.”
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Kyle Mizokami
Stealth, World
Stealth is an integral part of modern warfare.
Here's What You Need to Know: Not just aircraft make the list.
Stealth, or the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect a weapon, has been around since the first caveman sewed a pocket into his clothing and hid a rock in it.
Thousands of years later, with the ability to detect objects on the ground, in the air and at sea using electromagnetic radiation, hiding weapons in plain sight has become much harder. Читать дальше...
TOKYO, June 22, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced the joint development of RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC) with NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) in support of intelligent Radio Access Networks (RAN). The two companies ...