Category: Politic

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The vote, while expected, sparked anger and despair in Hong Kong, where many fear it marks an end to the city’s freedoms.

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05/06/2020

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Chinas parliament approved a controversial new national security law for Hong Kong Thursday, sparking outrage in the city, where opponents fear it marks the end of Hong Kong. Chinas rubber-stamp legislature, the National People's Congress, voted overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution to introduce a sweeping national security law that will ban secession, terrorism, foreign intervention, and subversion, radically tightening Beijings grip on the city. Senior leaders from the legislatures standing committee will now draft the details of the law, a process expected to take about two months, before it is imposed on Hong Kong. The vote, while expected, sparked anger and despair in Hong Kong, where many fear the move marks an ...

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Both suffered flu-like symptoms in March and April.

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05/06/2020

Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Hillary Clinton's vice presidential pick in 2016, announced Thursday that both he and his wife, Anne Holton, tested positive for coronavirus antibodies after suffering from flu-like symptoms in March and April. What he's saying: While Kaine said their doctors believed they might have the virus after previously testing positive for the flu, he and his wife were not tested because of a shortage at the time  and the fact that they were both working remotely and isolated at home already.

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40 programmes à découvrir ou à rattraper sur Netflix dès maintenant.

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05/06/2020

La plateforme Netflix met à votre disposition un choix incroyable de séries TV inédites ou devenues cultes. Vous ne savez par laquelle commencer ? Découvrez notre guide des meilleures séries Netflix disponibles pour le public français. Lancé en septembre 2014 en France, Netflix compte plus de 6 millions dabonnés au niveau local. Des sérivores quil faut satisfaire en permanence, avec la diffusion de fictions plus addictives les unes que les autres. Le service de streaming a réussi, au fil des années, à éclipser progressivement le paysage audiovisuel français grâce à des séries originales comme Stranger Things et Orange is the New Black mais aussi via des feuilletons dont la popularité sest construite à la TV, tels que Breaking Bad, Black Mirror, Sherlock ou encore Mad Men. Pour nous rendr...

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Why people are posting black squares on Instagram and why Black Lives Matter organizers want them to stop.

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05/06/2020

An effort to raise awareness about police brutality and systemic racism, which started in the music industry before being co-opted by countless Instagram users, appears to be backfiring somewhat. The Blackout Tuesday campaign began as a push for a day of reflection from music artists and labels in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, in Minneapolis last Monday. But almost immediately after the campaign started, countless Instagram users uploaded solid black squares in solidarity and added a #BlackLivesMatter hashtag. That meant the new Blackout Tuesday posts showed up as rows and rows of black squares on the Instagram page for #BlackLivesMatter. Many offered little to no context or information about the movement or demonstrations. Activists are now crit...

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Silver Lake is playing both sides of the deal.

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04/06/2020

If you can't beat them, join them. And then beat them. Driving the news: Silver Lake acquired a 12% stake in Far Point Acquisition (NYSE: FPAC), in order to help force the blank-check acquisition company to complete its $2.6 billion takeover of Swiss payments firm Global Blue. Backstory: Far Point was formed in 2018 by former New York Stock Exchange president Tom Farley and activist investor Dan Loeb (via his Third Point hedge fund), and raised $550 million in its IPO. Far Point's goal was to buy a fintech, and in January 2020 agreed to acquire Global Blue from Silver Lake (which would retain a minority stake). Global Blue focuses on tax refunds related to tourism shopping.Like with all blank-check acquisition companies, or SPACs, Far Point requires shareholder approval for its takeover

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Un poids lourd chez les ultra-légers.

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04/06/2020

Lorsque notre premier critère dachat pour un ordinateur portable est dordre budgétaire, il est difficile de nourrir des grandes attentes en termes de performances. Pourtant le Swift 3 dAcer na pas à rougir de ses capacités. Nous avons toujours considéré ce modèle comme l'un de nos Ultrabooks préférés, et lédition 2020 ne fait que confirmer notre attachement. Il faut préciser quil coûte moins de la moitié du prix du Dell XPS 13, ça aide. Même si ses spécifications techniques ne peuvent égaler celles du seigneur quasi-incontesté des Ultrabooks. Le Swift 3 2020 recycle certains des problèmes rencontrés sur les générations précédentes. Le plus important dentre eux : des haut-parleurs minuscules exposés sous le châssis. Passé cette lacune contournable (si vous possédez un bon casque audio), vo...

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04/06/2020

science Science Advances – Interfacing gene circuits with microelectronics through engineered population dynamics Researchers interfaced synthetic biology with microelectronics through engineered population dynamics that regulate the accumulation of charged metabolites. They demonstrate electrical detection of the bacterial response to heavy metals … There is a large gap between the current crop of task-specific narrow AI tools and Artificial General Intelligences (AGIs) envisioned by futurists and SF authors. Ben Goertzel has been working towards AGI. There is also OpenAI and other companies and … New simulations by a research team led by UC San Diegos Alexey Arefiev point the way toward making matter from light. The process starts by aiming a high-power laser at a target to generate...