Monday, February 25, 2019

25 February - iGoogle Portal - Tab 7 MSM


  WIRED



  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella rebuffed a call from employees to terminate a contract making HoloLens augmented reality headsets for the US Army.
  • The city's plant life still has a ways to go.

    • Intelligence Squared U.S. gathers five foreign policy experts to debate and discuss China's tech ascension.

      NYT & Home Page



  • President Trump wants big changes from China. But China’s leader is seeking security in a year that includes the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen bloodshed...
  • A modest trade deal could be a political liability in 2020.

    • The special counsel has a reputation as the all-knowing investigator, but Andrew D. Goldstein, a former Time magazine reporter, has a day-to-day role in one of the central lines of...

      India News, Latest News in India, Live News India, India Breaking News - Ti



  • The TOI immediately reached out to Russian Helicopters, the main partner with HAL in IRHL and the makers of the Ka-226T helicopters, by email, but the firm insisted on a personal meeting...


    • Priya Ramani was granted bail on Monday when she appeared in a Delhi court following summons issued to her in relation to a defamation case filed by BJP leader M J Akbar...

      BBC News - UK



  • Jeremy Corbyn says the party is prepared to support a new public vote as MPs seek to delay the UK's exit.
  • The PM says there is "real determination" to leave on 29 March, despite calls from her own party to delay.

    • Mauritius says it was forced to give up the Indian Ocean islands in exchange for independence.


      National Geographic News




  • Two ancient quarries some 180 miles from the famed prehistoric monument have been identified as the source for stones in the monument’s inner circle...
  • The humble Bramble Cay melomys has disappeared from its island in the Great Barrier Reef.

    • The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.


  • The United States targeted Venezuela's government with new sanctions on Monday and called on allies to freeze the assets of its state-owned oil company PDVSA after deadly violence...
  • Spanish-language U.S. television network Univision said a news team led by anchor Jorge Ramos was detained at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on Monday while interviewing...

    • Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the urbane, U.S.-educated architect of its 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, announced his resignation unexpectedly on Monday...


  • Virgin Galactic wants to make the world a better place by giving a lot more people some much-needed perspective.
  • On Feb. 11, 2010, NASA launched a spacecraft to study the inner workings of the sun: the Solar Dynamics Observatory. See how it happened here in our On This Day in Space video series...

    • The White House has nominated a longtime NASA center director and former acting administrator to be the next director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)...

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